Improving institutions for green landscapes in metropolitan areas / Helena Eva van Rij.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rij, Evelien van.

Series:

Sustainable urban areas ; 25.

Sustainable urban areas, 1574-6410 ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Netherlands.

City planning.

Open spaces--Netherlands.

Open spaces.

Greenbelts--Netherlands.

Greenbelts.

Greenways--Netherlands.

Greenways.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Delft University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investigates how various institutions for green landscapes in metropolitan areas work, which problems hamper them, and how these institutions can be improved. This title formulates the following themes such as: landscape and institutional developments, the market or government dilemma, and the network or hierarchy dilemma.

Contents:

Title page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Model for green area protection and improvement; Landscape changes and the restructuring of the welfare state; Market or government; the limitations of Transaction Cost Theory; Market or government; the debate about cross-subsidy strategies; Network or hierarchy; Spatial planning and land development; Slow Planning and incremental institutional change; Conclusion; References; Interviewees; Dutch text on compensation; Dutch text on dynamics; Improving institutions for green landscapes in metropolitan areas - Summary

Verbeteren van instrumenten voor groene metropolitane gebieden - Samenvatting (Dutch Summary)Curriculum Vitae

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Delft University of Technology, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-207).

ISBN:

1-4416-1679-9

1-60750-386-7

600-00-1440-6

OCLC:

491263762