Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States

Altrock, Uwe; Güntner, Simon; Peters, Deike

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“…In Canada, for instance government jurisdiction is organized across many different levels of administrative and spatial scale, and Canada is a federal state. In contrast, Sweden and Finland are unitary states, often seen as having comparatively shorter distances between decision makers and stronger national level steering (see Altrock et al, 2006;Lijphart, 1999).…”

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“…The study illustrates how framings relate both to international developments and changes, but also to historically and contextually developed differences that require contextual interpretation: for instance, a better understanding of how forest managers frame change would need to be supported by increased attention to both the structural differences and similarities between and among forest regions and countries (e.g. Altrock et al, 2006). Designing accurate response measures to large scale disturbances would also require even more place-specific understandings, for example, understanding the evolution of common framings of place and the nature of human relationships to the forests in particular places (e.g.…”

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Forestry administrator framings of responses to socioeconomic disturbance: Examples from northern regions in Canada, Sweden, and Finland

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Keskitalo

Vuojala-Magga

et al. 2016

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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As the global forest sector endures rapid crises and more gradually evolving social, political, and environmental influences, little attention has been paid to how forest administrators view changing sectoral conditions and response measures. We analyze policy frames mobilized by 27 senior actors within major private and state-owned companies, and government agencies in northern forest regions of Canada, Sweden, and Finland. Results show that four intervening theme areas are engaged by forest administrators to frame sectoral changes and responses, namely, the role of international markets; timber pricing and supply; the role of the state; and environmental policies. However, perceived regional differences in the level of impact of the international market changes, public versus private wood supply dependence, and satisfaction with forestry institutions lead actors to frame problems and solutions differently. While forest policy discourse is relatively consistent across these regions, responses are specified to regional contexts.

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Forestry administrator framings of responses to socioeconomic disturbance: Examples from northern regions in Canada, Sweden, and Finland

Bullock

Keskitalo

Vuojala-Magga

et al. 2016

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…As a result, the capacity to deal with new, complex challenges is limited, not only due to the limitations caused by administration systems having to include process-based characteristics, as described above, but also due to municipal size and funding for activities that are manageable within a specific setting. Sweden thus constitutes, on the one hand, a case with potentially high capacity for dealing with this type of organizational issue as a relatively stable and highly organized society (e.g., [86][87][88]) and, on the other hand, a case where priority-setting and integration of new complex issues is limited by the need to take into account a large multiplicity of demands under limited resources. While the focus on multiple aims at local level may make it a relatively typical case with regard to the considerations in general concerning administration systems described above, the fact that elected local decision-makers are not fully funded for their work may also constitute a particular challenge in the Swedish case.…”

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Why Organization May Be the Primary Limitation to Implementing Sustainability at the Local Level: Examples from Swedish Case Studies

Keskitalo

Andersson

2017

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Abstract:Much of the effort to address environmental issues at the local level has focused on defining principles and aims rather than addressing the operational difficulties of implementation. Drawing upon insights from sustainability scholarship, this study reviews two cases: the development of a Swedish standard for implementing sustainable development at municipality, county council, and regional levels, and attempts by a small rural municipality to establish a process towards implementing the Aalborg Commitments. The research illustrates the specific organizational and managerial complexity of these case study experiences. It concludes that an organizational focus on integration and mainstreaming deserves particular attention to achieve broader sustainability, or related environmental or adaptation goals. The results, in particular, highlight the role that integrated management systems can play for sustainability work at the local level.

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“…Brownfield sites mushroomed during post-socialism (Altrock et al, 2006;Borén and Gentile, 2007;Garb and Jackson, 2010;Kiss, 2007;Stanilov, 2007;Tsenkova, 2009) in the industrial cities of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, cutting through the urban tissue. They are reminders of once flourishing socialist industrial branches and of their failure to adapt to capitalist market economy.…”

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Producing urban industrial derelict places: The case of the Solventul petrochemical plant in Timişoara

Voiculescu

Jucu

2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper unveils the logic behind urban industrial derelict places connected to the petrochemical industry in the cities of Romania and specifically draws from the post-socialist experience of the Solventul petrochemical plant in Timişoara. In the context of transition from state socialism to capitalism and globalization, huge areas of debris stand as proof of a once flourishing socialist industry forced into controversial cases of privatization and re-privatization. The most important petrochemical plants in Romania have been the object of post-socialist economic restructuring. The reasons are due to the loss of the communist market, the cessation of government subsidies, and the growth of international competition, all in the face of aging production facilities. In the process, more than 30,000 workers were forced into intra-urban or urban-rural migration pushed by an emerging privatized housing market. The authorities acted with secrecy with regard to the process of privatization as well as to the ecological hazards posed by these industrial ruins. Created through a process of industrial decline paired with a general legal framework permeated by neoliberal influences, these urban industrial derelict places have caused hot spots of controversy for urban policies and practices for more than 20 years since the fall of communism in Romania.

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Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States

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Forestry administrator framings of responses to socioeconomic disturbance: Examples from northern regions in Canada, Sweden, and Finland

Forestry administrator framings of responses to socioeconomic disturbance: Examples from northern regions in Canada, Sweden, and Finland

Why Organization May Be the Primary Limitation to Implementing Sustainability at the Local Level: Examples from Swedish Case Studies

Producing urban industrial derelict places: The case of the Solventul petrochemical plant in Timişoara

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