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    A framework to analyse conflicts between residents and tourists: The case of a historic neighbourhood in Lisbon, Portugal

    Rego C.S.Almeida J.
    15页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2021 Elsevier LtdThe coexistence of residents and tourists in historic neighbourhoods, and the increased pressure of nightlife in the same areas, often leads to conflicts. An in-depth analysis of the sources of conflict is crucial for developing appropriate strategies to manage these urban areas. This paper specifically addresses conflicts between tourism and residential life in historic neighbourhoods. A case study was carried out in Bairro Alto, a typical neighbourhood in Lisbon's historic centre, with a strong identity and historical value, and simultaneously one of Lisbon's top nightlife districts. For the purpose of conflict analysis six variables were chosen — stakeholders, stakeholders’ interests, stakeholders’ power, conflict between residential and tourism uses, dimensions of the conflict and conflict mitigation. The initial framework was based on interviews carried out with four types of stakeholders: residents; tourists and visitors; business owners and public bodies and local associations. The Progress Triangle tool was used to analyse the data. When applied to conflict analysis in the historic neighbourhood of Bairro Alto, the Progress Triangle tool provided clear identification of three dimensions of conflict: substance, procedure and relationship. The analysis highlighted noise production during night hours in Bairro Alto as one of the main problems and showed that the existing measures to mitigate noise were not working.
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    • Elsevier

    What do we (not) know on forest management institutions in sub-Saharan Africa? A regional comparative review

    Kimengsi J.N.Owusu R.Pretzsch J.Giessen L....
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2021 Elsevier LtdWith growing concerns linked to the (un)sustainable management of forest resources, the role of institutions as mediators increasingly gains relevance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This is particularly so, as formal and informal institutions virtually compete for dominance – a yet-to-be-resolved colonial hangover. A large body of scientific knowledge exists on the role of institutions in regulating forest access, use, and management in SSA, albeit fragmented. Sub-regional variations in research on this subject further nuances our understanding of the breadth of conceptual and methodological issues in this field. This raises a central question: How can we advance knowledge on forest management institutions in SSA to enhance forest governance amidst the critical role of forests in addressing current global environmental challenges? We contribute answers to such interrogation by systematically reviewing more than three decades of scientific literature on institutions in forest use and management. Through a structured review of 100 empirical articles (involving 374 cases studies), and guided by the socio-ecological co-evolution framework, we derived two lessons. First, the conceptualization of forest-linked institutions is more skewed towards institutions as processes, than as structures. Second, the major determinants of institutional compliance are economic, ecological, political, socio-cultural, demographic, and geographical in nature. However, the weight of each determining factor varies in specific sub-regions. For instance, in East Africa, economic, ecological, socio-cultural, and geographic factors dominate while economic, demographic, and political factors dominate in Central Africa. Therefore, in crafting forest institutions in SSA, sub-regional disparities in factors that influence compliance (or otherwise) should be critically considered and addressed to improve effectiveness. Methodologically, qualitative approaches (e.g., key informant interviews and focus group discussions), conducted within short time spans, have been prioritized. However, observed knowledge fragmentation on the subject, including inconsistencies or mismatches, calls for combined, long term qualitative analyses with quantitative ones, in a robust mixed-methods approach. Future research should prioritize this methodological approach, with a focus on sub-regional, country-level specificities, to better inform understanding of forest-linked institutional dynamics.
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    • Elsevier

    What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture?

    Ingram J.Maye D.Hafferty C.Leake B....
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2022There is a need to identify key existing and emerging issues relevant to digitalisation in agricultural production that would benefit from a stronger evidence base and help steer policy formulation. To address this, a prioritisation exercise was undertaken to identify priority research questions concerning digital agriculture in the UK, but with a view to also informing international contexts. The prioritisation exercise uses an established and effective participatory methodology for capturing and ordering a wide range of views. The method involves identifying a large number of participants and eliciting an initial long list of research questions which is reduced and refined in subsequent voting stages to select the top priorities by theme. Participants were selected using purposive sampling and snowballing to represent a number of sectors, organisations, companies and disciplines across the UK. They were each invited to submit up to 10 questions according to certain criteria, and this resulted in 195 questions from a range of 40 participants (largely from England with some representation from Scotland and Wales). Preliminary analysis and clustering of these questions through iterative analysis identified seven themes as follows: data governance; data management; enabling use of data and technologies; understanding benefits and uptake of data and technologies; optimising data and technologies for performance; impacts of digital agriculture; and new collaborative arrangements. Subsequent stages of voting, using an online ranking exercise and a participant workshop for in-depth discussion, refined the questions to a total of 27 priority research questions categorised into 15 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze, across the 7 themes. The questions significantly enrich and extend previous clustering and agenda setting using literature sources, and provide a range of new perspectives. The analysis highlights the interconnectedness of themes and questions, and proposes two nexus for future research: the different dimensions of value, and the social and institutional arrangements to support digitalisation in agriculture. These emphasise the importance of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, and the need to tackle the binary nature of current analytical frames. These new insights are equally relevant to contexts outside the UK. This paper highlights the need for research actions to inform policy, not only instrumentally by strengthening the evidence base, but also conceptually, to prompt new thinking. To our knowledge this methodology has not been previously applied to this topic.
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    Bridging land value capture with land rent narratives

    Vejchodska E.Barreira A.P.Auzins A.Jurgenson E....
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2022Urban land values have reached unprecedented levels in many parts of the world. Many scholars direct their research on their utilisation for public purposes. Two established research communities can be traced – the community referring to land value capture comprised mainly of urban planners and lawyers, and the community of economists discussing land rent. The relatively low level of interrelations between these communities prevents an effective sharing of their research outcomes. This contribution seeks to strengthen interconnections between these communities by characterising the narratives of both research communities, and synthesising their views. The research is largely built on systematic literature review with content analysis undertaken using the NVivo software. The analysis focussed on the terminology used, the specific causes of land value increase, rationales and instruments used for land value capture, and the purpose of using the collected money to investigate the interconnections between both research communities.
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    Land use/cover change analysis in the Mediterranean region: a regional case study of forest evolution in Castelló (Spain) over 50 years

    Delgado-Artes R.Garofano-Gomez V.Oliver-Villanueva J.-V.Rojas-Briales E....
    14页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2022 Elsevier LtdThe second half of the 20th century has been characterised by the rural abandonment in several regions of the Mediterranean basin. The general collapse of traditional agriculture and livestock activities brought about an intensive migration movement from inland to coastal areas, which produced a massive forest cover increase in abandoned rural areas. This socioeconomic, spatial and environmental change has led to a situation unknown for centuries in the Mediterranean landscapes. As a consequence, large wildfires have increased enormously in importance in a society with a predominant urban vision over the rest of the territory. Indeed, public opinion considers wildfires as major natural disturbances related to climate change causing at the end deforestation, while its prerequisite, a substantial increase of forest cover due to rural collapse, is less known. This research aimed to deepen the knowledge about forest evolution and its implications after the land abandonment process that started in the second half of the 20th century. The substantive source of information was obtained from a photointerpretation by sampling, using five general land-cover and land-use types and four specific land-cover types over a period of 50 years (1957–2007) in the province of Castelló (Valencian Region, Spain). Results showed that the area dominated by dense forests (shrublands and woodlands) has increased from 17% to 28%, and the area dominated by their transitional land uses after farming abandonment has increased from 8% to 21%. Transition matrices enabled a precise identification of changes among dominant categories over the studied period. Random and systematic transitions between categories have been analysed and a map of forest evolution pathways could be drawn, in which a double alternative path was identified. In the general context of progressive evolution to dense forests in the Mediterranean region, we have also found different evolution rates which may depend on site conditions. Their specific soil and climatic factors should be further analysed in order to improve our understanding of future forest evolution in the Mediterranean region at a local scale. A robust knowledge of these processes will contribute to improve forest management and land-use planning while optimising resilience, carbon storage and the provision of environmental services.
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    A strategic development model for regeneration of urban historical cores: A case study of the historical fabric of Hamedan City

    Chahardowli M.Sajadzadeh H.
    13页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2022 Elsevier LtdThe rapid destruction of valuable fabrics, implementation of personal preferences in the process of regeneration and setting speculative goals regarding the historical cores of cities on the one hand and the necessity of preserving and regenerating historical and spatial layers on the other highlight the significance of developing a strategic model for regeneration of the historical cores of cities. Strategic development for achieving desirable urban governance, community participation, protection and restoration of valuable historical fabrics and entrepreneurial approaches to the historical cores of cities are highly important subjects. Strategic development for sustainable urban regeneration can be discussed from different perspectives including cultural, social and economic viewpoints. A sustainable regeneration approach to the historical cores of cities, which acknowledges the values, contemporary needs, participation and finally satisfaction of local communities can prove to be an effective strategy in this regard. This study attempted to develop an effective strategy (or strategies) for sustainable regeneration using the grounded theory. To this end, the historical core of Hamedan City in Iran was chosen as a suitable case for study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 60 individuals, including architects, urban planners, city managers, tourists, merchants and residents. The snowball sampling method was used until theoretical saturation was achieved. The collected data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding, which led to identification of 160 concepts, 40 categories and 9 main groups. The results showed that the tourism-based economic approach to the historical core of Hamedan can be used as the central phenomenon to form a strategic development model. Certain factors such as management and adjustment of traffic and transportation systems, organization of facilities and equipment in urban historical areas as well as restoration and improvement of historical buildings and valuable fabrics are basic and necessary requirements in this model. Although the tourism-based economic strategy may entail conflict of interest and some interference with the daily life of the local residents, especially in the residential sector, promotion of land value, increase of social participation as well as preservation and restoration of valuable historical buildings can more than make up for this shortcoming. From the sociocultural perspective, the tourism-based economic approach can improve social participation, sense of belonging and social spontaneity for better regeneration of the historical core of cities.
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    Evaluations of agri-environmental schemes based on observational farm data: The importance of covariate selection

    Uehleke R.Huttel S.Petrick M.
    15页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2021 Elsevier LtdEvaluations of agri-environmental schemes (AES) based on observational farm data generally use a matching algorithm for comparing participating and non-participating farms. To mitigate the potential post-matching covariate imbalances between groups resulting from the use of large covariate sets, this paper proposes a method mix that reduces the covariate set and maximises the utilised number of observations. We test the approach on an evaluation of the European Union's AES in the programming period of 2000–2006, estimating the impacts of AES participation on typical measures of land management, i.e. fertiliser and plant protection expenditures and grassland share. We use Mahalanobis distance matching with exact matching on the entry year of the participating farms and kernel matching with automated bandwidth selection to maximise the utilised sample and increase the estimator's efficiency. Combining cause-and-effect path analysis with statistical covariate selection algorithms reduces the covariate set and improves balance on the characteristics that describe the production environment, farming intensity, productivity, and farmers’ preferences. We find that AES generate moderate decreases in plant protection expenditure and moderate increases in grassland shares. We conclude that our proposed method mix ensures an efficient use of information and improves the reliability of AES impact evaluation.
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    Planning cities beyond digital colonization? Insights from the periphery

    Ferreira A.Oliveira F.P.von Schonfeld K.C.
    12页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2022 Elsevier LtdContemporary debates about the smart city are being characterized by divergent views. While smart city proponents enthusiastically see it as a transformative vision for the future of urban areas, the skeptics bring to the fore extremely critical views. The present article critically presents the insights offered by Portuguese planners and public officials on how to craft policies aimed at regulating smart city initiatives in Portugal so that the best land use governance approaches can be identified for this country. Gathered through a mix of semi-structured interviews and an online survey, these insights indicate that planning should play a key role in regulating smart city initiatives, since much can be gained, but also lost, through these initiatives. The insights also show the extent to which smart innovations enjoy today a supposedly universalistic quality: even though Portugal is a peripheral country with very particular social, economic and geographic features, the participants in this research struggled to offer insights that were specifically related to the Portuguese context. This is critically assessed as an alarming sign of the digital colonization that contemporary imaginaries are experiencing.
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    The effect of land expropriation on local political trust in China

    Zhao X.Xie Y.
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2022 Elsevier LtdCapitalizing on longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study investigates the effect of land expropriation on local political trust in China. Results from individual fixed-effects models reveal that first-time land expropriation lowered farmers’ trust in local cadres. Moreover, we find two mechanisms underlying the relationship between land expropriation and local political trust: subjective quality of life and negative cadre–public interactions. Specifically, land expropriation reduced farmers’ life satisfaction, subjective social status, and confidence about the future and increased their chances of having conflicts with officials and experiencing government inefficiency, thereby diminishing farmers’ trust in local cadres. In addition, auxiliary analysis based on data from the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) 2013 suggests that entitling land-expropriated farmers to upgraded pension insurance improved their happiness. Our findings confirm an adverse effect of land expropriation on local political trust and generate some policy implications.
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    • Elsevier

    Planning, development pressure, and change in green infrastructure quantity and configuration in coastal Texas

    Woodruff S.Bae J.Newman G.Tran T....
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要：? 2021Land-use change is a lead driver of ecological degradation in coastal regions. By guiding where development and open space are located, local land use plans are theorized to be an important tool to protect green infrastructure in coastal areas and their related services. Higher quality plans are expected to lead to greater protection of green infrastructure (GI). Using multiple linear regression, we test whether the presence and quality of comprehensive plans are related to change in GI landscape configuration between 2000 and 2016 in cities along Texas’ coast. We find that comprehensive planning and plan quality are negatively associated with change in GI quantity and landscape pattern. Our results suggest that, in Texas, planning is mostly reactive; development pressure and environmental degradation likely lead to both loss of green infrastructure and city adoption of comprehensive plans.
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    • Elsevier