Sustainable land use
Utrecht University, faculty of geosciences, 2018 - 2019
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,Lecture 1: introducton
12/11/2018
- Sustainability problems ofen related to lack of space
- Land use planning as key driver for/barrier to sustainable development
SLUP as complex governance issue
- Diverging visions and interests
- No easy and unambiguous solutons
- Mult-level and long-term issue
- Multple relevant criteria: efectveness, efciency, legitmacy, accountability
- Red: urban climate change adaptaton and mitgaton
- Green: protecton of species and area protecton landscape governance)
- Blue: food risk governance and water quality governance
- Grey: reducing the need for urban mobility, transiton towards new forms of mobility
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,Blue infrastructure
Lecture 2: Flood risk governance
12/11/2018
Types of fooding
- Water nuisance
- High river discharges
- Coastal fooding
- Severe rainfalls
- Flash foods in mountains)
FRM strategies
Key fndings/issues of recent research
1. Context sensitve diversifcaton of FRM strategies– three resilience capacites
a. capacity to absorb 1)
b. capacity to resist 2, 3)
c. capacity to adapt and transform 3, 4, 5)
2. Alignment of strategies strategies infuence each other)
a. Bridging mechanisms – connectng actors, levels and sectors
3. Involvement of public and private actors, including residents
a. Europe: large role for public authorites by default
b. Positve experiences with involvement of companies and NGss
c. Citzen involvement needed for substantve and normatve reasons → mult-actor co-
producton
4. Rules that balance legal certainty and fexibility
a. Need for clear, enforceable and enforced division of responsibilites and for
possibilites to change course/involve new actors
5. Availability of resources
a. Resilient FRG requires broadening for resource base → taking place through
decentralizaton and private investments
b. Balanced over strategies may require redistributon
6. Normatve principles for dealing with distributonal efects
a. Solidarity vs benefciary pays → need to discuss this in open, inclusive debate
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, b. Natonal contexts should be considered
link to governance and science-policy interface
- Questons related to governance
- Normatve debate on the desired level of food protectonn
- Division of power and responsibilites between actors from state, market and civil
society – who paysn Who decidesn
- How to align diferent actors, levels and sectors including role of legal framework)n
- Issues of justce and accountability
- Questons related to science-policy interactons
- Performing adequate risk assessments and future projectons
- Translatng these into actonable informaton climate services) – for whomn
- Skewed knowledge base – more on food defence than on the other strategies =>
Power
- Setng up partcipatory knowledge producton processes that aid water-wise spatal
planning
Lecture 3: Water quality governance
12/11/2018
- Diferent water usages with diferent sometmes competng) quality demands
- Hydrological connectvity in a water system upstream-downstream and vice versa)
- Creates the need for regulaton and organizaton
Challenges for water quality policy)
- Ambitons EU/SDGs
- Conficts with other water usages and regulatons
- Upcoming contaminants and risks
- Climate change
- Policy developments deregulaton, decentralizaton)
Water Framework Directve
- Framework for sustainable protecton of waterbodies Art. 1):
- Environmental objectves ecology en chemistry, Art. 4)
- Drinking water objectves Art. 7)
- Typical:
- River basin approach
- sbligaton of result ECJ case 32/05)
- Cyclic approach: RBMPs, Programmes of Measures
Water quality hampers in the Netherland → whyn
- WFD-implementaton, despite all eforts: water quality improvement hampers
- Initatves on governance approaches, but when and how does it workn
- Water quality issues → complex issues → mult levels, scales and disciplines
- Diferent scholars and actors hold diferent perspectves on efectveness
- Interacton not yet assessed explicitly → reading)
Conceptualisaton of interactons between legal - social-economic - ecological level
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Utrecht University, faculty of geosciences, 2018 - 2019
1
,Lecture 1: introducton
12/11/2018
- Sustainability problems ofen related to lack of space
- Land use planning as key driver for/barrier to sustainable development
SLUP as complex governance issue
- Diverging visions and interests
- No easy and unambiguous solutons
- Mult-level and long-term issue
- Multple relevant criteria: efectveness, efciency, legitmacy, accountability
- Red: urban climate change adaptaton and mitgaton
- Green: protecton of species and area protecton landscape governance)
- Blue: food risk governance and water quality governance
- Grey: reducing the need for urban mobility, transiton towards new forms of mobility
2
,Blue infrastructure
Lecture 2: Flood risk governance
12/11/2018
Types of fooding
- Water nuisance
- High river discharges
- Coastal fooding
- Severe rainfalls
- Flash foods in mountains)
FRM strategies
Key fndings/issues of recent research
1. Context sensitve diversifcaton of FRM strategies– three resilience capacites
a. capacity to absorb 1)
b. capacity to resist 2, 3)
c. capacity to adapt and transform 3, 4, 5)
2. Alignment of strategies strategies infuence each other)
a. Bridging mechanisms – connectng actors, levels and sectors
3. Involvement of public and private actors, including residents
a. Europe: large role for public authorites by default
b. Positve experiences with involvement of companies and NGss
c. Citzen involvement needed for substantve and normatve reasons → mult-actor co-
producton
4. Rules that balance legal certainty and fexibility
a. Need for clear, enforceable and enforced division of responsibilites and for
possibilites to change course/involve new actors
5. Availability of resources
a. Resilient FRG requires broadening for resource base → taking place through
decentralizaton and private investments
b. Balanced over strategies may require redistributon
6. Normatve principles for dealing with distributonal efects
a. Solidarity vs benefciary pays → need to discuss this in open, inclusive debate
3
, b. Natonal contexts should be considered
link to governance and science-policy interface
- Questons related to governance
- Normatve debate on the desired level of food protectonn
- Division of power and responsibilites between actors from state, market and civil
society – who paysn Who decidesn
- How to align diferent actors, levels and sectors including role of legal framework)n
- Issues of justce and accountability
- Questons related to science-policy interactons
- Performing adequate risk assessments and future projectons
- Translatng these into actonable informaton climate services) – for whomn
- Skewed knowledge base – more on food defence than on the other strategies =>
Power
- Setng up partcipatory knowledge producton processes that aid water-wise spatal
planning
Lecture 3: Water quality governance
12/11/2018
- Diferent water usages with diferent sometmes competng) quality demands
- Hydrological connectvity in a water system upstream-downstream and vice versa)
- Creates the need for regulaton and organizaton
Challenges for water quality policy)
- Ambitons EU/SDGs
- Conficts with other water usages and regulatons
- Upcoming contaminants and risks
- Climate change
- Policy developments deregulaton, decentralizaton)
Water Framework Directve
- Framework for sustainable protecton of waterbodies Art. 1):
- Environmental objectves ecology en chemistry, Art. 4)
- Drinking water objectves Art. 7)
- Typical:
- River basin approach
- sbligaton of result ECJ case 32/05)
- Cyclic approach: RBMPs, Programmes of Measures
Water quality hampers in the Netherland → whyn
- WFD-implementaton, despite all eforts: water quality improvement hampers
- Initatves on governance approaches, but when and how does it workn
- Water quality issues → complex issues → mult levels, scales and disciplines
- Diferent scholars and actors hold diferent perspectves on efectveness
- Interacton not yet assessed explicitly → reading)
Conceptualisaton of interactons between legal - social-economic - ecological level
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