Are you familiar with a policy instrument (e.g., plan, regulation, incentive mechanism, PES scheme) designed for or implemented to increase the sustainability of peri-urban landscapes? Please contribute to our research by filling in the survey at the following link. The survey is anonymous and it takes only 15 minutes to complete. Thanks for your help!
Marcin Spyra, Silvia Ronchi, Chiara Cortinovis
Call for contributions: Governance Mixes for Sustainable Peri-Urbanization
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue on “Governance Mixes for Sustainable Peri-Urbanization” in the journal Sustainability. Peri-urban landscapes are transition territories connecting cities with their surrounding environment, where urban, rural, and natural or semi-natural characteristics are mixed. Peri-urban landscapes often result from unsustainable and partially un-regulated processes threatening the functionality of ecosystems and the provision of related services. However, such complex landscapes can also be seen as an opportunity for governance experimentation and thus for new governance mixes to emerge.
With this Special Issue, we aim to investigate governance mixes oriented towards a more sustainable development of peri-urban landscapes, i.e. mixes of multiple governance approaches combining top-down and bottom-up processes and involving a wide range of actors at different administrative levels. [Read more…] about Call for contributions: Governance Mixes for Sustainable Peri-Urbanization