Land Consumption and Land Take: Enhancing Conceptual Clarity for Evaluating Spatial Governance in the EU Context
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13510%2F20%3A43895595" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13510/20:43895595 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/19/8269" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/19/8269</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12198269" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12198269</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Land Consumption and Land Take: Enhancing Conceptual Clarity for Evaluating Spatial Governance in the EU Context
Original language description
Rapid expansion of settlements and related infrastructures is a global trend that comes with severe environmental, economic, and social costs. Steering urbanization toward well-balanced compactness is thus acknowledged as an important strategic orientation in UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG-11) via the SDG-indicator "Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate." The EU's simultaneous commitment to being "a frontrunner in implementing [...] the SDGs" and to striving for "no net land take until 2050" calls for relating the concepts of land consumption and land take to each other. Drawing on an EU-centred questionnaire study, a focus group and a literature review, we scrutinize definitions of land consumption and land take, seeking to show how they are interrelated, and questioning the comparability of respective indicators. We argue that conceptual clarifications and a bridging of the two notions are much needed, and that the precision required for definitions and applications is context-dependent. While approximate understandings may suffice for general communication and dissemination objectives, accurate and consistent interpretations of the discussed concepts seem indispensable for monitoring and reporting purposes. We propose ways of addressing existing ambiguities and suggest prioritizing the term land take in the EU context. Thereby, we aim to enhance conceptual clarity around land consumption and land take-a precondition for solidly informing respective policies and decisions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sustainability
ISSN
2071-1050
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
1-21
UT code for WoS article
000586752500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85092665604