Circular Flow Land Use Management (CircUse) IURS This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF CircUse Jiřina Bergatt Jackson IURS-Institut pro udržitelný rozvoj sídel o.s. Nov.2011www.urbaninfo.cz

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS About IURS IURS is a non-profit advocacy, research and project implementation organization, which aims are:  working to support sustainable land use development practices,  strong focus on issues of underused urban land, containment of sprawl and sustainable urban development  to foster broad coalitions that enhance the competitiveness of accessible and equitable urban development and redevelopment. This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS page 3 Presentation content  Symptoms  Evidence  Causes  CircUse Solution  CircUse Process  CircUse Goals  CircUse Strategy  CircUse Tools  About project CircUse This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS Symptoms  Since 1950s European urbanized areas increased by 78 %, but population increased only by 33 %  Outcome: reduced sustainability and increased cost of externalities Source:  Number of regions are confronted with massive urban sprawl, the current economic crisis and the effects of the demographic change, causing unfavorable land use patterns.  This is neither competitive nor sustainable.  Dispersed land use patterns with their high demands of land, soil and energy accelerate the process and the impacts of climate change page 4

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS Evidence - Corine Land Cover 2006 page 5 data interpretation pages 1.1,3.8, 3.9 Land use CR (% of total) Artificial areas hts/land-cover-country-analyses 2006 Artifitial areas (ha/year,% base 1990)

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS Causes (CR experience)  Increasing of build up areas is a synonym for growth  Nobody is identifying and evaluating the inner development potential within urbanized areas  Land use decision are vested in local politics  Regional influence is limited by legal frameworks and subsidarity principles  Political support for sustainable land use on regional level is low  Sectoral policy support for sustainable land use is rare  Political support for sustainable land use on national level is minimal page 6

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS CircUse Solution  Circular land use management represents an integrative policy and governance approach, which presupposes a changed land use philosophy with regard to land utilization.  This modified land use philosophy can be expressed with the slogan: “avoid – recycle – compensate“ page 7

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS page 8 CircUse Process The CircUse process is visualized in this figure, showing land use as a cycle with three major phases: a. Zoning new “greenfields” b. Rejection of land not suitable for subsequent use c. Activating land potentials  brownfields, empty buildings  gaps between buildings and vacant land  urban renewal and redevelopment sites  sites undergoing planning The end and the beginning of each phase are crucial decision points. This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF Reintroduction Planning Economic aspects Ecological aspects Social aspects Interim Use Use Abandonment Cessation of use a. c. b. Mix of instruments Legal, planning and economic instruments + Cooperative governance approaches Source: German Institute of Urban Affairs (Defy 2005).

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS CircUse Goals  Integrated approaches to land use  Broad city/regional cooperation  Support sustainable forms of land uses  Activation of the inner development potential of already urbanized land  Reduction of newly deregulated land for urbanization,  Capping increases in size of build up areas,  Steering of private investments onto already urbanized land  Cordination of public investments with a perspective of sustainable land use page 9

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS CircUse Strategy  Integration of all relevant stakeholders and considerations of their specific incentives and reaction patterns  Combination of incentives and adequate instruments for steering the supply and demand of land markets,  Combination of decentralized and central steering instruments  Considerations of city and/or region specific interdependencies page 10

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS CircUse Tools  Integrated Strategy of Circular Flow Land Use Management  Educational module focused on city and regional stakeholders  Action plan supporting implementation of strategy  Inventory database of land suitable for development activities (vacant land, brownfields, gaps, greenfield sites est.)  Circular land use management maps page 11

© Susanne Stromberg Circular Flow Land Use Management IURS About project CircUse  IURS is one of 12 Partners from 6 countries, who are working together in the project CircUse to face these problems and develop strategies to solve them.  Project duration 3/2010 – 02/2013  Central Europe Programme, Project No: 2CE174P4  Total budget: Euro  More on page 12

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