The integration of regional environmental planning and physical planning in the Netherlands

Bouwer, K.

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“…However, there may be tensions over whether this goes far enough in addressing ecological issues in situations where environmental interests are not well organized. Whereas integrated development planning is based on a communicative approach to planning where consensus is forged and interests are balanced, environmental policy seems to require that environmental aspects are included and implemented, even where these are not necessarily Downloaded by [Universidad de Sevilla] at 03:58 25 November 2014 popular (see Bouwer, 1994 on the Dutch case). In addition, it requires more systematic thinking on the implications for sustainability of economic development strategies, which has generally been lacking in the South African case.…”

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Regional planning and sustainability: limits and potentials of South Africa's integrated development plans

Todes

2004

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper considers whether South Africa's Integrated Development Plans provide an adequate framework for achieving sustainable regional development, particularly for peripheral regions of developing countries. It examines the case of Integrated Development Planning in the Ugu District Municipality, which has been acclaimed for its emphasis on incorporating principles of sustainable development into its planning processes. While the emphasis on integration and the multi-sectoral approach are strengths, greater attention needs to be given to environmental aspects, and the form of planning needs to be adapted to the context, and its social, economic and political dynamics.

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Regional planning and sustainability: limits and potentials of South Africa's integrated development plans

Todes

2004

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…While environment became a policy debate “across sectorial legislation (13 acts and parts of 14 other acts),” the disconnect between environmental and spatial planning in the Netherlands drew attention to itself in 1989 with the release of the Fourth Report on Physical Planning (Schreuder, 2001). 9 Too many plans at city and national levels had been created, resulting in “environmental policy [was] split up over many departments and bodies at the three main policy levels” (Bouwer, 1994: 11). Regional policies fell short in providing a “panacea for implementation problems” (ibid.).…”

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Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo

Yıldız

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Transition ecologies, namely ecotones, are where life started. Deltas, estuaries, bayous, and wetlands are places where different ecosystems merge and evolutionary processes take place. This paper explores three time periods in four coastal cities to look at the relationship between environmental values and urban expansionist paradigms through reclamation projects. It argues that these thresholds, occurring contemporaneously in expanding metropolitan regions, correspond to changing conceptualizations of urban–nature relationships, in other words urban core's changing relationships to fringe ecosystems. The metropolitan regions used as case studies for this piece are Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo. Each has used reclamation as a grand expansion strategy during political or economic transitions. During each grand alteration attempt in these regions, the developers, reclamation enthusiasts, or urban planners revisited the city's immediate ecological fringe for expansion, and following these revisitations, a new geographical order formed in their subsequent regions. The urban fringe has become the socio-spatial zone where new and experimental ideas about urban development encounter complex natural systems. The land-use negotiations and reclamation's role in shaping the urban–nature relationships are missing pieces of the planning field. Any future looking climate resiliency plan today should build on the reading of this palimpsest and understand how these environmental values were traded and how global expansion narratives transformed the urban–nature gradient.

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“…A procedure based on this consensus approach is called ROM, the Dutch abbreviation for spatial planning and environment (Bouwer, 1994;VROM et al, 1989). Experiments have been undertaken within eleven ROM projects distributed throughout the Netherlands (Glasbergen and Driessen, 1993).…”

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Environmental Conflicts in Compact Cities: Complexity, Decisionmaking, and Policy Approaches

Roo

2000

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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In most parts of Europe compact city policies have become a popular means of planning for sustainability. Dense compact cities were seen as solutions to reduce continually increasing mobility. They were also seen as a way to avoid urbanization of the countryside. Lately planners have been expressing serious doubts about the impact of these positive effects of the compact city concept. Planners in the Netherlands are instead shifting their attention more to environmental dilemmas which result, in part, from compact city policies. A number of these dilemmas are caused by frictions between environmentally sensitive and environmentally intrusive functions in a compact urban setting. Traditionally these dilemmas or conflicts were taken care of by using a functional rationality approach, that is one emphasizing direct causal relations between cause and effect. In the Netherlands this has resulted in a top-down policy, urging local authorities to keep enough distance between conflicting functions. Unfortunately the compact city concept adds an extra dimension to the problem, favouring mixed use and a dense urban area. Keeping distance can therefore no longer be the primary solution to environmental conflicts in urban areas. Environment conflicts have become, so to speak, more complex owing to spatial pressure and to a growing number of different interests that have to be taken into account. Functional rationality approaches may no longer be sufficient to solve these complex dilemmas or conflicts. Rather than keeping distance as the only possible solution to deal with conflicting functions, in the Netherlands local participation is also recognized as an effective approach towards some of the more complex conflicts. This communicative approach is gradually gaining acceptance in the Netherlands—and in other parts of the world as well—as a potential method for dealing with planning issues. In this paper functional and communicative rationality are seen as two extremes of the same spectrum, with complexity as the key word linking the two together. This has lead to the following thesis: the effectiveness and efficiency of a solution will depend on the assignment of the conflict's complexity. In this case, complexity is no longer seen as a metaphor, but instead as essential for examining planning issues, including environmental conflicts in compact cities.

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The integration of regional environmental planning and physical planning in the Netherlands

Cited by 11 publications

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Regional planning and sustainability: limits and potentials of South Africa's integrated development plans

Regional planning and sustainability: limits and potentials of South Africa's integrated development plans

Reclaimed ecotones in the climate change era:A long-durée framing of urban expansion in Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, and Tokyo

Environmental Conflicts in Compact Cities: Complexity, Decisionmaking, and Policy Approaches

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