Formulation matters! The failure of integrating landscape fragmentation policy

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/44555601:13440/20:43895698 RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901374

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/10/3962/pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/10/3962/pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12103962" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12103962</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Formulation matters! The failure of integrating landscape fragmentation policy

Original language description

Uncoordinated land development results in landscape fragmentation, which is a complex and serious environmental threat to the Czech landscape. It poses a challenge especially for (post)industrial urban agglomerations with an extremely low connectivity of green-blue infrastructure. Environmental and spatial planning strategic policy documents are considered to represent long-term communicative instruments for effective environmental protection. Current experience shows that policy documents are commonly poorly integrated, and burdened by formulation inconsistencies. In this study, we (i) specify the driving factors as main causes of landscape fragmentation, describing how is the issue understood by environmental and spatial planning strategic policy documents and (ii) identify criteria for the formulation of these documents at the national and regional governance level. A content analysis of 12 strategic policy documents enabled the calculation of internal consistency and an assessment of their inter- and cross-sectoral integration. The results revealed formulation flaws in documents, leading to serious misunderstandings of the meaning of the landscape fragmentation between environmental (biocentric) and planning (anthropocentric) policy domains. This aspect makes the horizontal and further vertical cooperation between policy domains difficult. The guidelines for the formulation of strategic policy documents may improve their intelligibility and support smoother environmental policy integration.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3962

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

1-21

UT code for WoS article

000543421400020

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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