Pub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107375
Lawrence Wai Chung Lai , Stephen N.G. Davies , Nixon Tit Hei Leung , Prudence L.K. Lau , Tristance Kee
As of 1946, the site of the former imperial Chinese fort, Kowloon City (City), stripped of its stone walls during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in the Pacific War (1941–1945), became called Kowloon Walled City in English official communiques with the Colonial Office/Foreign and Commonwealth Office when, apart from a few Crown lessees, it was occupied by squatters. As a contribution to place naming and place memory research, this paper uses hitherto unreported archival materials to show that this renaming of the City began with post-war official colonial Hong Kong government's planned attempts to eradicate the squatter development on the site. The discussion should shed light on the specific question as to why its long gone City walls have been remembered and the influence of place naming and mapping for place branding in land use planning and policy.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107386
Roberta Barbieri , Benedetta Coluccia , Francesco Natale
With the rise of global urbanization, cities encounter considerable socioeconomic and environmental challenges embodied in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Therefore, the crucial importance of urban planning cannot be underestimated in pursuing sustainable development. Among urban sustainability efforts, the smart city has emerged as a crucial paradigm for integrating innovation and sustainability to enhance urban living and achieve SDGs. The study aims to classify the Italian regional capital cities based on their progress in smart cities-related SDGs to understand the key implementation strategies, define the gaps between cities and identify priorities for action. For cluster analysis, 34 indicators related to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) were considered. The main results reveal significant variability in performance across Italian cities, suggesting that they are at different stages of development in achieving SDGs 9 and 11. Northern Italian cities outperform their southern counterparts in industry, innovation and infrastructure. Larger cities often suffer from more serious and structural problems in urban sustainability. This study guides policy by pinpointing effective strategies and gaps across Italian cities, enhancing collaborative efforts and best practice sharing. It also informs SDG progress assessments, directing investments and prioritizing development needs, thus advancing smart city policies and urban sustainability.
{"title":"How are smart city policies progressing in Italy? Insights from SDG indicators","authors":"Roberta Barbieri , Benedetta Coluccia , Francesco Natale","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the rise of global urbanization, cities encounter considerable socioeconomic and environmental challenges embodied in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Therefore, the crucial importance of urban planning cannot be underestimated in pursuing sustainable development. Among urban sustainability efforts, the smart city has emerged as a crucial paradigm for integrating innovation and sustainability to enhance urban living and achieve SDGs. The study aims to classify the Italian regional capital cities based on their progress in smart cities-related SDGs to understand the key implementation strategies, define the gaps between cities and identify priorities for action. For cluster analysis, 34 indicators related to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) were considered. The main results reveal significant variability in performance across Italian cities, suggesting that they are at different stages of development in achieving SDGs 9 and 11. Northern Italian cities outperform their southern counterparts in industry, innovation and infrastructure. Larger cities often suffer from more serious and structural problems in urban sustainability. This study guides policy by pinpointing effective strategies and gaps across Italian cities, enhancing collaborative efforts and best practice sharing. It also informs SDG progress assessments, directing investments and prioritizing development needs, thus advancing smart city policies and urban sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107386"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107384
Jia Jia , Xiaoqing Zhang , Wenzhong Zhang
Human perception is a critical component of place attachment, but its contribution to people-oriented urban planning remains unclear. Global shifts have dramatically transformed the way people live, with a surge in engagement in online “social” spheres. Social media has risen to prominence as the principal conduit through which individuals articulate their views. However, current research lacks an overall consideration of the use of social media to link the urban environment with people’s perceptions. Furthermore, complex social media data processing presents another technical difficulty. This study presents an innovative use of deep learning BERT-based techniques to analyze online data from social media and subdivide human perceptions into 9 emotions and 10 behaviors. On the basis of Spearman correlation, geographically weighted regression (GWR), and multilevel multinomial logistic regression, we investigate the impact of the quality of the urban built environment and individual differences on residents’ perceptions. The results show that the greater the density of urban amenities and the more diverse urban land uses are, the more likely residents are to express positive emotions and the greater the number of types of activity. Women and older people are more likely to develop place attachment. Our research explores the impact of environmental quality on human perception from both theoretical and empirical perspectives and provides a deeper understanding of the humanland relationship. Urban planning that considers place attachment can create opportunities for sustainable urban development and improve the quality of human life.
{"title":"Between place attachment and urban planning in Jinan: Does environmental quality affect human perception in a developing country context?","authors":"Jia Jia , Xiaoqing Zhang , Wenzhong Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human perception is a critical component of place attachment, but its contribution to people-oriented urban planning remains unclear. Global shifts have dramatically transformed the way people live, with a surge in engagement in online “social” spheres. Social media has risen to prominence as the principal conduit through which individuals articulate their views. However, current research lacks an overall consideration of the use of social media to link the urban environment with people’s perceptions. Furthermore, complex social media data processing presents another technical difficulty. This study presents an innovative use of deep learning BERT-based techniques to analyze online data from social media and subdivide human perceptions into 9 emotions and 10 behaviors. On the basis of Spearman correlation, geographically weighted regression (GWR), and multilevel multinomial logistic regression, we investigate the impact of the quality of the urban built environment and individual differences on residents’ perceptions. The results show that the greater the density of urban amenities and the more diverse urban land uses are, the more likely residents are to express positive emotions and the greater the number of types of activity. Women and older people are more likely to develop place attachment. Our research explores the impact of environmental quality on human perception from both theoretical and empirical perspectives and provides a deeper understanding of the human<img>land relationship. Urban planning that considers place attachment can create opportunities for sustainable urban development and improve the quality of human life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 107384"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142525855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107376
Joel Persson
The forest transition – a sustained shift from net loss to net gain in forest cover – has enabled macro-level explanatory accounts of the causal processes underlying reversals of net forest loss. However, criticisms emphasise the inadequate accounting of scalar and spatial interdependences giving rise to uneven dynamics, while the dominant explanatory approach of characterising pathways seem incapable of explaining heterogeneous forest transition experiences. To advance the value of the forest transition framework, this paper (1) draws on a review of 126 articles to elucidate the methodological approaches and causal-analytic strategies of three strands of forest transition research; (2) presents a series of methodological heuristics grounded in critical realism to advance more holistic and context-dependent causal analysis; and (3) illustrates the resulting methodological framework with an ongoing research project. The review demonstrates a wide diversity of methodological leanings in forest transition scholarship, ranging from regression on forest cover change and econometric analysis to local mixed-method case studies and historical narrative analyses. Less than half of studies (48 %) engage with pathways as an explanatory approach, while 22 % draw on complementary theoretical approaches. The methodological heuristics proposed reconcile competing epistemologies and carve out a causal role for emergent powers of social practices, recognising the complex and situated expressions of forest transitions while retaining ambitions for boundedly generalisable claims on causal processes. I argue that a CR-based methodological approach permits engaging seriously with multiple, interacting generative processes while asking normative questions about what types of forest transitions are desirable to whom.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107379
S. Sariffuddin , D. Ary A. Samsura , Erwin van der Krabben , Budi Setiyono , Wisnu Pradoto
This paper presents evidence of distressed property spillover in coastal flood-prone areas. By utilizing a hedonic pricing model, this study may contribute to the global discussion on how property markets react to deterioration in coastal areas, specifically from the perspective of the Global South. Spillover effects in housing prices were observed through a spatial autoregressive model by investigating lags in price adjustment over time and space. The authors employed two large datasets comprising property information, including property tax history (n = 1933,037; 1993–2020) and real estate transactions (n = 1029; 2013–2020). These datasets are also recorded in the cadaster map of the Indonesian government. The property tax history provides crucial evidence regarding delinquent taxes, signifying distressed properties abandoned by their inhabitants. Property sales transaction data offers evidence of lowered prices and their spillover effects. As a result, this paper contends that neighborhood decay induced by coastal flooding represents a non-economic shock that permeates to the property market, leading to price movement. The most important finding is that land subsidence has a more significant influence than distressed properties on lowering prices and their spillover effects. These findings have the potential to initiate new discussions about environmental deterioration from a property market perspective.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-11DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107377
Ana Luísa Luz
Baldios are wide areas, integrated in extensive farming systems, historically held and managed by local communities for animal grazing and other extractive activities in support of their livelihoods. This land tenure regime persisted despite successive political and socioeconomic changes that threatened its communitarian nature, profoundly influencing the socioeconomic structure of rural areas. Today, use and possession of the baldios by the local communities is safeguarded by formal legal rights. In 2007 an agri-environmental scheme (AES) designed for managing the pastures in the baldios was proposed to the commoners of two protected areas. While one was successfully implemented and is still active, the other was discontinued. This study focuses on the Peneda-Gerês National Park experience, where the AES was widely adopted, aiming to understand the effects of its implementation on local dynamics for management of baldios, looking at its social and cultural benefits, particularly regarding local capacity for collective action. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in all the baldios in the park, and a period of stay in one of the villages allowed an opportunity for deeper analysis. Other stakeholders were also interviewed (e.g., state institutions). We argue that the benefits of this scheme went beyond the direct monetary payouts, playing an important role in the revitalization of local institutions. Moreover, we conclude that in depopulated and aging rural areas, top-down site-specific agri-environmental schemes that rely on existing social and institutional structures to operate are critical to recover and/or recreate institutions and practices for local collective landscape management.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107373
Jessica Page , Hong Zhou , Haozhi Pan , Chang Zhou , Pei Pei , Zahra Kalantari
This study investigates the spread of innovative behavioral (green nudging) policies within city-level Climate Action Plans (CAPs) across the European Union, focusing on how these innovations diffuse and the factors influencing their adoption. Using textual analysis with a dataset consisting of CAPs from 40 cities across Europe, we categorized various green nudging innovations and then tracked their origins and uptake. Then, we employed fsQCA (Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis) to identify the key factors driving diffusion. The findings reveal that while certain innovations, particularly in the building and transportation sectors, have achieved widespread adoption, other initiatives like community co-creation and urban parks have seen lower diffusion. Local terrestrial factors, especially sectoral carbon emissions, are significant drivers, with cities facing higher emissions more likely to adopt these policies. Interestingly, local emissions levels and strong climate leadership emerge as more critical determinants than economic status or climate similarities. The study identifies two primary diffusion pathways—Cultural Leadership for Emission Reduction and Local Adaptive Synergy—demonstrating the diverse strategies cities employ based on their unique contexts. This research highlights the importance of expanding green nudging measures in CAPs beyond technological and infrastructure domains to promote low-carbon behaviors comprehensively.
本研究调查了创新行为（绿色引导）政策在欧盟城市一级气候行动计划（CAPs）中的传播情况，重点关注这些创新如何传播以及影响其采用的因素。通过对欧洲 40 个城市的 CAP 数据集进行文本分析，我们对各种绿色引导创新进行了分类，然后追踪了它们的起源和采用情况。然后，我们采用模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）来确定推动传播的关键因素。研究结果表明，虽然某些创新，尤其是建筑和交通领域的创新，已经得到了广泛采用，但社区共建和城市公园等其他举措的推广程度较低。当地的陆地因素，尤其是部门碳排放量，是重要的推动因素，排放量较高的城市更有可能采用这些政策。有趣的是，与经济状况或气候相似性相比，当地排放水平和强有力的气候领导力成为更关键的决定因素。研究确定了两种主要的推广途径--减排文化领导力和地方适应性协同作用--表明了城市根据其独特的环境所采用的不同策略。这项研究强调了将联合行动方案中的绿色引导措施扩展到技术和基础设施领域之外，以全面促进低碳行为的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107363
Pia Sommer , Sebastian Lakner , Anke Nordt , Franziska Tanneberger , Johannes Wegmann
Carbon emissions of peatlands drained for agriculture and forestry contribute more than 7 % to total GHG emissions in various countries worldwide. Hence, reducing these emissions by ending peatland drainage is a significant contribution to a transition towards carbon neutrality and being in line with the Paris Agreement. To achieve this goal, swift action is needed. Using Germany as a case study, we scrutinize whether the German coal phase-out can serve as a ‘blueprint’ to end drainage on agriculturally used peatlands, using six categories (political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal). We also calculate a politically justified budget for a peatland drainage phase-out comparable to the coal phase-out in terms of the socially acceptable mitigation of CO2 emissions. Our results suggest that the current pace of rewetting is too slow in comparison to a rewetting path following the Paris Agreement and would create an area gap of about 560,000 ha and a resulting CO2 emission gap of 84.6–148 Mt CO2 by 2029. We show that both, peatland drainage phase-out and coal phase-out, are socio-technical transitions which require governmental intervention and a guided-level perspective. For a governed peatland drainage phase-out in Germany which is 1.5°C compatible, we determine a politically justified total budget between 13.8 and 16 billion €.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-05DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107370
Hironori Yagi , Shingo Yoshida
With the majority of the world’s population residing in urban areas, particularly in vast suburbs, land use control around the suburbs of large cities is a concern for not only protecting agricultural productivity but also maintaining a decent residential environment. A practical policy measure to address this concern is providing preferential tax treatments to landowners who lease out their farmland, and the Production Green Land (PGL) Act is a typical example, which was extensively revised by the Japanese government in 2018 to conserve farmlands and allow active farmers to use it effectively amid the overall population decrease. Previous studies have extensively focused on identifying factors to encourage persistent agriculture in the urban growing phase. However, the appropriate combinations of specialization, diversification, attributes, and location of farm businesses in the shrinking suburbs, where leasing farmland has become a practical option for farmers. Moreover, multifunctional value is important for ensuring that agriculture continues as a family business. Studies on the attributes of suburban landowners who keep farmland and provide multifunctional value to the community are also limited. Based on the above understanding of the literature, this study explores the specific farm attributes and locations related to the persistence of suburban agriculture. To this end, this study conducts a two-wave survey of suburban farmers, including smallholders in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. The following key findings are observed. First, the continuity of agriculture in the suburbs is significantly related to farmers’ diversification activities in terms of sales channels and provision of services, with specialization within a business type in terms of agricultural operation also being an advantageous factor. Meanwhile, regarding the location, the probability of continuing agriculture is lowest in moderately populated suburbs. Second, landowners engaged in multifunctional agriculture that is linked with the community tend to hold farmland rather than convert it even when they stop or downscale their agricultural activities. Third, regarding the policy implication, the number of exiting and downsizing farmers was larger compared with expanding farmers, in addition to an unbalanced geographical distribution. Based on the findings, the study recommends that multifunctional agriculture through forming relationships with the community should be encouraged, new entrants to agriculture must be promoted, and active farmers who expand farm size need to be supported.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107378
Guangyi Zhai , Keke Li , Huwei Cui , Zhen Wang , Ling Wang , Shuxia Yu , Zhi-Hua Shi
The cropland soil erosion (CSE), a major driver of land degradation and water pollution, is directly caused by agricultural production processes driven by food demand in a globalized food market. However, it is essential to determine what role global trade and agricultural value chains play in regional CSE, especially when imbalanced erosion is embodied in global agricultural trade. In this study, the Revised Universal Soil and Water Loss Equation and the Environment Expanded Multi Region Input-Output Model were used to quantify the global distribution of CSE and the value added in global agricultural value chains to identify trade imbalances. We introduce the Local Environmental Coefficient, the Regional Environmental Coefficient, and the Agricultural Trade Environment Inequality (AEI) index, which were used to analyze the overall and bilateral inequalities in agricultural trade among the world’s regions. The results showed that 34.65 % of the global CSE was embodied in international trade, whereas the ratio of the value added was 30.80 %. The global trade in agricultural products is generally unbalanced, as indicated by the AEI index of developed regions such as Norway and Japan, which is more than 30 times higher than that of regions such as China and Brazil, and more than 20 times higher than the global average. In terms of bilateral trade, China, the United States, and Brazil face more prominent imbalances in their international trade. Major agricultural producers generally bear more environmental costs with less value-added benefits in trade. This study quantifies, for the first time, the implied imbalances of CSE transfer in agricultural trade. Global ecological governance thus requires accountability from all regions, especially in an era of increasing globalization of agricultural trade. Timely adoption of ecological compensation and technology transfer for both large agricultural producers and less-developed regions are key to achieving sustainable global agricultural production.
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