1. The document summarizes research on the rural-urban fringe from an interdisciplinary team of academics and practitioners.
2. It discusses narratives of "disintegrated development" between natural/built environment perspectives and whose authority plans the fringe.
3. Opportunity narratives are presented that focus on learning from failures, securing multifunctional land uses, and maximizing public engagement in the fringe.
Going beyond boundaries: Doing interdisciplinary research in the rural urban ...BSBEtalk
This is a presentation made to a PhD Winterschool. It shows the power of working at edges and interfaces in order to make progress in theory and practice.
Going beyond boundaries: Doing interdisciplinary research in the rural urban ...BSBEtalk
This is a presentation made to a PhD Winterschool. It shows the power of working at edges and interfaces in order to make progress in theory and practice.
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Presentation by Masalu Elias Luhula, Esq., Land Based Investment Coordinator,Tanzania Natural Resource Forum
Land Tenure Week, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 21-25 January 2019
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Civil society support to land use planning in TanzaniaLandCam
Presentation by Masalu Elias Luhula, Esq., Land Based Investment Coordinator,Tanzania Natural Resource Forum
Land Tenure Week, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 21-25 January 2019
The Greenbelt Plan, together with the Growth Plan, the NEP and the ORMCP, builds on the Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) to establish a land use planning framework for the GGH that supports a thriving economy, a clean and healthy environment and social equity.
Hill area development - Emerging Issues- Sustainable OptionsJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper describes in brief the role and importance of Hill areas in the development of the nation. It also tries to define the emerging problems which are being faced by these areas. Considering the present status of hill areas, paper tries to list few options/ steps which can be leveraged to make the hill areas more sustainable ,livable and promoters of quality of life for all communities living in both hills and plains
Chartres CJ (2012) Water, land and ecosystems: improved natural resource management for food security and livelihoods, ACIAR Seminar Series presentation, 25 January 2012, Canberra, Australia.
Presentation by Dr. Robert Zomer, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) at Forest Day 3, 13 December 2009, Copenhagen. Learning event "Landscape approaches to Adaptation and Mitigation"
Update on rural development plans to date 2014 2020 environment-15_oct 2013LaoisLeaf
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Land Use Planning: Conflict Management Tool in Pastoral Areas in KenyaILRI
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Recent decades have witnessed a huge change in the global structure of the human population, with the majority of people now living in urban environments. Rural-to-urban migration flows, mainly due to labour opportunities in urban areas, are responsible for the majority of this growth. Such events aggravate the urban-rural divide and compromise sustainable land-use systems. Hence, planning and managing urban areas and rural hinterlands require integrative spatial planning strategies, as well as strong land use management policies. In this regard, strategic spatial plans have been increasingly developed in many urban regions worldwide, as a means to achieve sustainable land use patterns, guide the location of physical infrastructures and shape urban-rural dynamics. It is realistic, therefore, to expect that strategic spatial plans may contribute to fostering the linkage between urban centres and rural hinterlands. This study reviews the content of strategic plans and other spatial policy documents currently in force in European and North American urban regions. The central goal of this study is to analyse the policies and measures in the plans to understand the role strategic spatial plans play in balancing the urban-rural nexus. The findings allow us to distinguish three dominant approaches, which reflect spatial patterns: i) strategic plans in European cases are focused on promoting brownfield redevelopment and stimulating polycentricity as a counter-urbanization measure; ii) strategic plans in Canadian cases demonstrate strong preoccupations with farmland protection for food security in striving for a more equal development of urban and rural areas; iii) strategic plans in assessed US cases are mainly focused on curbing urban sprawl and avoiding further land take for urban and infrastructure development, while rural hinterlands are largely neglected. The study concludes by outlining recommendations intended to support strategic planning processes and sustainable land management.
Investing in Community-based Resilience of Socio-Ecological Production Landsc...Bioversity International
Presentation by Diana Salvemini, COMDEKS Project Manager (UNDP-GEF).
This was presented during a seminar hosted at Bioversity International on 'The Indicators of Resilience in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)' in January 2014.
Find out more: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/agricultural-ecosystems/landscapes/
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Disintegrated development in the rural-urban fringe
1. Disintegrated development in
the rural urban fringe
Alister Scott BA PhD MRTPI
Claudia Carter, Richard Coles, David Collier,
Chris Crean, Rachel Curzon, Bob Forster,
Nick Grayson, Andrew Hearle, David Jarvis,
relu Miriam Kennet, Peter Larkham, Karen Leach,
Mark Middleton, Nick Morton, Mark Reed,
Rural Economy and Hayley Pankhurst, Nicki Schiessel, Ben
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Land Stonyer, Ruth Waters and Keith Budden
Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
2. Plan
1. Rediscovering the rural
urban fringe
2. Interdisciplinary
Investigations
3. Narratives:
disintegrated
development
4. Narratives:
opportunity spaces
5. Reflections
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
3. Rediscovering the rural urban
fringe.
• Research team perspectives
• (1.04-3.23 )
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
4. Rediscovering the rural-urban
fringe
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Rural Economy and rural domain
Land Use Programme
5. Gallent et al 2006
• a multi-functional environment, but often
characterised by essential service functions;
• a dynamic environment, characterised by
adaptation and conversion between uses;
• low-density economic activity including retail,
industry, distribution and warehousing;
• an untidy landscape, potentially rich in
wildlife.
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
6. Defining the rural-urban
fringe
It is the ‘fuzzy’ and
dynamic space where
town (built environment)
and countryside (natural
environment) intersect
Beyond urban centric
Beyond land uses
Includes values and
interests
OECD (2011)
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Land Use Programme
7. Different Faces of the Fringe
Innovative Ad-hoc
Edge Diverse
Transition Dynamic
Fuzzy Neglected
Messy Valued
Reactionary Contested
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Rural Economy and Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
Land Use Programme
8. relu Building interdisciplinarity across the
Rural Economy and rural domain
Land Use Programme
9. Differing perceptions from URF to
RUF (Collier and Scott 2012)
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Rural Economy and rural domain
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10. Academic commentary
Dominant space of 20C
(Mckenzie 1996; OECD 2011)
Collection of dynamic and
productive environments
(Spedding 2004)
Misunderstood space
(Gallent et al. 2006)
Fringe as a ‘weed’ (Cresswell 1997)
Battleground for urban and rural
uses (Hough 1990)
Landscape out of order
(Qvistrom 2007)
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
12. Crossing academic, policy,
practice and scalar divides
Forest Research
Birmingham City University - National Farmers Union
Birmingham School of the David Jarvis Associates
Built Environment Natural England
University of Aberdeen - Localise West Midlands
Aberdeen Centre for Green Economics Institute
Environmental Sustainability Birmingham Environment Partnership
West Midlands Rural Affairs Forum
Worcestershire County Council
West Midlands Regional Assembly
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
13. Developing Interdisciplinarity
• Team produced their own reflective ‘pieces’
on
• Spatial Planning
• Ecosystem Approach
• Rural Urban Fringe
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Rural Economy and rural domain
Land Use Programme
14. Developing Interdisciplinarity
• Papers acted as boundaries
• PI Assembled individual pieces into 2 working
papers
• (1) Critical explorations of SP and EA to define
common principles.
• (2) RUF review
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Rural Economy and rural domain
Land Use Programme
15. Developing Interdisciplinarity
• Synergies of SP and EA
• Selection of key concepts
• Shaped the subsequent methodological lens
to view the rural urban fringe.
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Rural Economy and rural domain
Land Use Programme
17. Seeking out new evidence
• Visioning exercises
• Workshops (Team led)
• Hampton Peterborough
and N Worcestershire
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
18. Narratives of disintegrated
development
• Exposing the built and natural environment
divide
• Whose Authority are you?
• Building sustainable communities?
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Land Use Programme
20. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper 2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape 3. Local
4. DEFRA 4. DCLG
5. Ecosystem Approach 5. Spatial Planning
6. Classifying and Valuing
6. Zoning and Ordering
7. National Ecosystem Assessment
7. Sustainability Assessments
8. Integrated Biodiversity
Development Areas 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
9. Nature Improvement Areas 9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
21. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper 2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape 3. Local
4. DEFRA 4. DCLG
5. Ecosystem Approach 5. Spatial Planning
6. Classifying and Valuing
6. Zoning and Ordering
7. National Ecosystem Assessment
7. Sustainability Assessments
8. Integrated Biodiversity
Development Areas 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
9. Nature Improvement Areas 9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
22. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper 2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape 3. Local
4. DEFRA 4. DCLG
5. Ecosystem Approach 5. Spatial Planning
6. Classifying and Valuing
6. Zoning and Ordering
7. National Ecosystem Assessment
7. Sustainability Assessments
8. Integrated Biodiversity
Development Areas 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
9. Nature Improvement Areas 9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
23. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper 2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape 3. Local
4. DEFRA 4. DCLG
5. Ecosystem Approach 5. Spatial Planning
6. Classifying and Valuing
6. Zoning and Ordering
7. National Ecosystem Assessment
7. Sustainability Assessments
8. Integrated Biodiversity
Development Areas 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
9. Nature Improvement Areas 9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
24. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper 2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape 3. Local
4. DEFRA 4. DCLG
5. Ecosystem Approach 5. Spatial Planning
6. Classifying and Valuing
6. Zoning and Ordering
7. National Ecosystem Assessment
7. Sustainability Assessments
8. Integrated Biodiversity
Development Areas 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
9. Nature Improvement Areas 9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
25. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper 2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape 3. Local
4. DEFRA 4. DCLG
5. Ecosystem Approach 5. Spatial Planning
6. Classifying and Valuing
6. Zoning and Ordering
7. National Ecosystem Assessment
7. Sustainability Assessments
8. Integrated Biodiversity
Development Areas 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
9. Nature Improvement Areas 9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
26. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper 2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape 3. Local
4. DEFRA 4. DCLG
5. Ecosystem Approach 5. Spatial Planning
6. Classifying and Valuing
6. Zoning and Ordering
7. National Ecosystem Assessment
7. Sustainability Assessments
8. Integrated Biodiversity
Development Areas 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
9. Nature Improvement Areas 9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
27. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper
2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape
3. Local
4. DEFRA
5. Ecosystem Approach 4. DCLG
6. Classifying and Valuing 5. Spatial Planning
7. National Ecosystem Assessment 6. Zoning and Ordering
8. National Character 7. Sustainability Assessments
Areas/Catchment Management 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
Plans
9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
9. Nature Improvement Areas
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
28. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper
2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape
3. Local
4. DEFRA
5. Ecosystem Approach 4. DCLG
6. Classifying and Valuing 5. Spatial Planning
7. National Ecosystem Assessment 6. Zoning and Ordering
8. National Character 7. Sustainability Assessments
Areas/Catchment management 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
Plans
9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
9. Nature Improvement Areas
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
29. Natural Environment lens Built Environment lens
1. Incentives 1. Control
2. Natural Environment White Paper
2. National Planning Policy Framework
3. Habitat and Landscape
3. Local
4. DEFRA
5. Ecosystem Approach 4. DCLG
6. Classifying and Valuing 5. Spatial Planning
7. National Ecosystem Assessment 6. Zoning and Ordering
8. National Character 7. Sustainability Assessments
Areas/Catchment management 8. Development/Neighbourhood Plans
Plans
9. Enterprise Zones / Green Belts
9. Nature Improvement Areas
10. Local Nature Partnerships 10. Local Enterprise Partnerships
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
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Rural Economy and rural domain
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32. Narrative 3: building
sustainable communities?
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33. Opportunity Narratives
• Learning and applying lessons
• Securing multifunctionality
• Maximising public engagement.
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34. Narrative 1 : Learning and
Applying Lessons
• “Path to excellence is
paved with failures”
• More critical
examination of things
that go wrong
• Legacy
– rural-urban fringe work
by Countryside Agency
– Regional Planning
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36. 9 piece Jigsaw Birmingham City
Council
The 9 piece jigsaw – Key Partners
GIA Partnership Climate Risk
Contingency Water
Risk Mapping
Planning Green Infrastructure
Health & Well
Being
Biodiversity
The LEP
Future Proofing Community
Resilience
Transport &
Infrastructure
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37. Narrative 2: Securing
multifunctionality
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38. Hampton
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39. Narrative 3: Maximising public
engagement in the fringe
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40. Reflections
• Rethink urban and rural polarisation
• Rural urban fringe as the key battleground for
development
• Disintegrated development inhibits full
realisation of its potential as a rural urban
fringe
• Start dialogue of key role the RURAL –urban
fringe can play
• Imposition of order may remove the very
essence that makes the fringe unique
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41. Conclusions
• Start of a research, policy
and practice journey
• Disciplinary silos can inhibit
progress in the fringe
• We need to experiment and
take risks
• We need better
engagement with publics
over kind of fringe they
want
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Rural Economy and
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Editor's Notes
My talk focuses on 3 main components of the rural urban fringe. Drawing on an 18 month proejct funded by the Research Councils UK under the Relu programme. Connections Disintegrated policy and decision making 3. New opportunity spaces. Taken images out as too clattered / busy background. This then also standardises the videos with none having a front image
Use of the word fuzzy signifies soft and fluid boundaries of the RUF Important addition to many definitions by looking at the people who shape the area. See RUF defined by nature/interests of people who live there as much as land uses. This brings into RUF zone commuter areas in what might have been seen as previously rural.
Range of terms that characterise the fringe. Positive and Negative but reflecting its important status as the key zone of land use change and contestation. Key role of greenbelt tends to dominate debates however.
The academic literature has been notably silent on the URF and RUF but these snapshots seeing some important contributions that reinforce the negative and positive aspects conveying both potential and urgency in sound planning and policy responses.
So I want to briefly unpack our conceptual approach regarding the convergence of spatial planning and ecosystems approaches. Currently pursued as separate paradigms with their own institutional champions and policy responses.
Having built a team uniting academics and policy practitioners we effectively Our starting point involved individual reflective pieces drawing on experiences of Spatial Planning and the Ecosystem Approach. Despite their different foundations and philosophies the rhetoric has remarkable convergence . These terms emerging from a contents analysis of the reflective pieces form the starting point from which our resultant framework was produced .”
So I want to briefly unpack our conceptual approach regarding the convergence of spatial planning and ecosystems approaches. Currently pursued as separate paradigms with their own institutional champions and policy responses.
The natural environment is based on reward , whilst the built environment is based on restraint and control. 2. The natural environment is driven by the Natural Environment White Paper whilst the built environment is being driven by the emerging National Planning Policy Framework with limited connection between the two. 3. The natural environment is focussed at the habitat and landscape scale whilst the built environment is currently moving towards a local scale. 4. The natural environment is overseen by Defra with its delivery agencies (Natural England, Environment Agency and Forestry Commission) whilst the built environment is over seen by the Department for the Communities and Local Government with its delivery agencies being local authorities. 5. The natural environment champions the ecosystem approach whilst the built environment champions spatial planning. 6. The natural environment classifies habitats and species whilst the built environment zones and orders using land use plans. 7. The natural environment uses the UK National Ecosystem Assessment whilst the built environment uses Sustainability Assessments incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment. 8. The natural environment currently uses the umbrella of Integrated Biodiversity Delivery Areas whilst the built environment uses the umbrella of Development plans. 9. The natural environment is promoting Nature Improvement Areas for environmental funding whilst the built environment is promoting enterprise zones for economic funding. 10. The natural environment is developing Local Nature Partnerships whilst the Built Environment has developed Local Enterprise partnerships.
“ However, it’s important to realise that every part of the GI network doesn’t have to deliver against each one these benefits. For example in a SSSI, biodiversity conservation and enhancement may take priority, whereas in new residential development climate change resilience, sustainable transport and community cohesion may come to the fore. “ Many of the actions that would result from effective Green Infrastructure planning also support the ecosystem approach, whether or not this is factored into the decision-making process. “ Take for example a watercourse. Watercourses are an obvious linear feature which can thread through and link up urban and rural areas, making them a natural part of the Green Infrastructure network. The Green Infrastructure led management of the watercourse could include influencing appropriate management of the floodplain or the re-naturalisation of the watercourse, protecting or restoring its natural functions. This is good for the environment and good for nearby communities. “ It is here that the inherent multifunctionality of Green Infrastructure immediately takes it beyond just planning, or just ecology. However, to make Green Infrastructure happen, a wide range of partners need to work together. “ The Green Infrastructure approach is gaining popularity in town and country planning because it integrates different environmental themes, such as biodiversity and the historic environment, in a way which provides a holistic understanding of the natural and built environment. And then puts this into a format which can be applied i ncluding being used proactively by planners in policy development, masterplans and informing their decisions on development. “ The key point is that the sum value of the Green Infrastructure network is greater than its constituent parts.”