scholarly journals The rise and fall of biodiversity offsetting in the Lodge Hill large-scale housing development, South East England

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 706-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Bormpoudakis ◽  
Joseph Tzanopoulos ◽  
Evangelia Apostolopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
South East England ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

In this paper, we aim to shed light on the geographies that led both to the selection of Lodge Hill for the construction of a large-scale housing development and to the subsequent attempt to use biodiversity offsetting to compensate for its environmental impacts. We draw on extensive fieldwork from 2012 to 2016, and diverge from previous studies on offsetting by focusing less on issues related to metrics and governance and shifting our analytic attention to the economic and urban geographies surrounding the Lodge Hill case. We argue that this approach can offer not only an empirically grounded account of why offsetting is being selected to address the impacts of specific urban development projects, but also an in-depth understanding of the factors that determine offsetting’s actual implementation on the ground. Viewing the Lodge Hill case through the frame of urbanization allows us to better grasp the how, why and when particular alliances of actors contest and/or support the implementation of biodiversity offsetting. Our analytical lens also helps exposing the fragility of neoliberal natures and the roles inter-capitalist competition and species biology and ecology can play on the success or failure of neoliberal policies.

scholarly journals Neoliberal Urbanization in Europe: Large-Scale Urban Development Projects and the New Urban Policy

Antipode ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Swyngedouw ◽  
Frank Moulaert ◽  
Arantxa Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Projects

State rescaling and large-scale urban development projects in China: The case of Lingang New Town, Shanghai

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 2564-2581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Li ◽  
Rebecca Lai Har Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
State Space ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Spatial Strategy ◽  
New Town ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Spatial Strategies

Large-scale urban development projects have become the main vehicle by which targeted interventions for place- and scale-specific state initiatives unfold, triggering a series of processes that are associated with the rescaling of state space. This study aims to understand the place-specific conditions, pathways and strategies whereby states’ spatial and scalar restructuring takes place in urban development projects (UDPs) within China’s political economic contexts, and in turn how UDPs act as critical lenses for viewing the changing nature of state spatial strategy in China, through a case study of the Lingang New Town in Shanghai. The major findings are: UDPs in China function as tools not just for land value extraction but also for scale-making to cater to the state’s pursuits of place-specific competitiveness in the global economy; the restructuring of the state apparatus and regulatory frameworks is driven by place-specific tensions and crises triggered by earlier rounds of state rescaling; the state chose state-agents rather than market-agents to reinforce its power, and thus the state space expands through development of UDPs; through developing UDPs, China’s spatial strategies have explicitly and officially engaged with the discourse of globalisation while implicitly engaging with geographically variegated practices of neoliberalisation. At the theoretical level, this article facilitates an investigation of how China’s state spatial strategy, characterised by geographically and chronologically variegated engagement with neoliberalism, is actualised through UDPs. It also demonstrates how, despite being a socialist polity, pragmatic market measures and downscaling are taken as transient measures in times of need.

scholarly journals Definition of Socio-Economic Impacts of Large-Scale Development Projects within Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022091
Author(s):  
Svatopluk Pelčák ◽  
Jana Korytárová
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Incremental Capacity

Abstract The article focuses on the socio-economic impacts of large-scale urban development projects in cities. Both in Czech cities and large cities around the world, there is increasing pressure on converting previously unused areas (“greenfields”) as well as the areas that no longer serve their original purpose and are inefficiently used (“brownfields”) to new use purposes. As a result, public administration representatives face a difficult decision on how to change the use of these areas to be consistent with the current zoning plan. The resulting decision has to be explained to the public in such a way that they feel they meet the public needs and interests. Decision-makers need valid and accurate inputs to make the right decisions. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly define and describe the procedure for assessing the benefits of these important revitalization or regeneration projects for various segments of the public. Only a small part of the urban development project impacts is of a purely financial character. Therefore, the evaluation process uses modelling of socio-economic impacts, which are evaluated financially, so that the decision-makers are able to compare the most valid impacts to the initial investment costs necessary for converting the territory into the area with new functional use. The research sample consists of important urban development projects in the largest cities in the Czech Republic. Most of these projects consist have a territorial study, which was established as the main source of relevant information for the analyses. The outputs of the research described in the article build on the previous research of the authors, where they defined 3 basic variables - Incremental capacity of jobs, Incremental capacity of the population and Incremental capacity of visitors as the carriers of following project socio-economic impacts on the territory. The research article presents a list of socio-economic impacts defined on the basis of incremental capacities.

scholarly journals Behavioral Reluctance in Adopting Open Access Publishing: Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Köster ◽  
Agnes Moors ◽  
Jan De Houwer ◽  
Tony Ross-Hellauer ◽  
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

Despite growing awareness of the benefits of large-scale open access publishing, individual researchers seem reluctant to adopt this behavior, thereby slowing down the evolution toward a new scientific culture. We outline and apply a goal-directed framework of behavior causation to shed light on this type of behavioral reluctance and to organize and suggest possible intervention strategies. The framework explains behavior as the result of a cycle of events starting with the detection of a discrepancy between a goal and a status quo and the selection of behavior to reduce this discrepancy. We list various factors that may hinder this cycle and thus contribute to behavioral reluctance. After that, we highlight potential remedies to address each of the identified barriers. We thereby hope to point out new ways to think about behavioral reluctances in general, and in relation to open access publishing in particular.

scholarly journals Site Selection of Housing Development Projects in Thailand and Malaysia Border Trade Areas by Modified Sieve Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Treechart Loakaewnoo
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Sieve Analysis ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
Selection Of

This study sought to select the appropriate sites for the housing projects in Thailand and Malaysia Border Trade areas. The Modified Sieve Analysis was adopted as the instrument for searching and selecting sites. The Modified Sieve Analysis is the technique used to assess the urban expansion, which has been modified from the traditional sieve analysis by overlaying the map with its scores and calculate the total scores for selecting the suitable sites for the urban and housing development. The findings from this study help identify the suitable sites to build housing projects in the four cities – three sites for each. 

The Implementation of Large-Scale Urban Development Projects in Brazilian Cities—Case Study: Rio de Janeiro/RJ

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Buller Bertuzzi ◽  
Grace Tibério Cardoso ◽  
Dirceu Piccinato Junior ◽  
Fernanda Moscarelli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Projects
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