Land-Use Management in Peri-urban Areas

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The peri-urban landscape is a dynamic space where cities expand or merge into rural areas, generating unique patterns and shaping their inhabitants’ social and mental life. This research topic focuses on the critical issue of land-use management in peri-urban areas, which serve as transitional zones between urban and rural regions. The aim is to address the challenges and opportunities associated with land-use in these areas and develop strategies for sustainable development.

This research topic invites contributions that comprehensively assess current land-use patterns and dynamics in peri-urban areas, including identifying key drivers and impacts. It analyzes existing policies, regulations, and institutional frameworks governing land-use management and examines the socio-economic and environmental factors influencing land-use decisions. Furthermore, innovative approaches, tools, and technologies for effective land-use planning and management in peri-urban areas are encouraged.

Contributions should employ diverse methodologies, such as geospatial data collection and analysis, surveys, interviews, and modeling techniques. These methodologies will generate insights into the relationships between socio-economic, environmental, and land-use variables. The practical application will be in recommendations and guidelines for policymakers, land-use planners, real estate developers and other stakeholders to enhance sustainable land-use practices in peri-urban areas.

This research topic is aligned with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), SDG 15 (Life on Land), and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). It aims to support scientific contributions that would boost a sustainable future in peri-urban areas through effective land-use management and planning. This research topic allows discussion that would contribute to the creation of sustainable and inclusive cities, the protection of terrestrial ecosystems, and the promotion of multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable land-use management.

We welcome contributions exploring themes including, but not limited to, the following:
- Peri-urbanization as spatial development: Urban expansion and peri-urban area development: land use and land cover dynamics: emerging patterns in a metropolitan region / bio-region context:
- Peri-urbanization & spatial data / analysis: Application of remote sensing, GIS, and geospatial tools for monitoring peri-urban dynamics and improving land-use management.
- Peri-urbanization as socio-ecological agenda: climate risk, resilience, adaptation: food / energy / water systems: bio-regional & socio-ecological perspectives;
-Peri-urbanization as socio-economic agenda: demographic and economic change, livelihoods and affordances, innovation and transition in peri-urban areas: infrastructure, real estate and land markets as drivers of change;
- Peri-urbanization and land-use governance: extended forms of spatial planning, sub-regional development, adaptive / collaborative governance; innovative approaches for effective land-use planning in peri-urban areas.
-Peri-urbanization as emerging geographies: peri-urban sprawl, aerotropolis, carceral cities, multi-localities, post covid decentralized economies;
- Peri-urbanization and systems perspectives: complexity, emergence, co-evolution, transition analysis: cognitive systems and the ‘collective peri-urban intelligence’;
- Peri-urbanization as a local agenda: micro-geographies of ‘place’ & ‘locality’: spaces of innovation, disorder and resistance; .
- Peri-urbanization as a global agenda: global south-north linkages and comparisons: global perspectives such as the anthropo-cene / urban-ocene / ‘peri-cene’ / planetary peri-urbanism.

You are also invited to the launch meeting for interested authors and/or stakeholders, introduced by UN Habitat (Urban Policy Platform) on 4th August, online & onsite at the ICPEU conference (recording will be available) - details on Peri-urban launch (https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/synergistics/city-wise-peri-urban-launch/)

Keywords: Peri-urban areas, sustainable development, land-use management, urban-rural transition, socio-economic factors, environmental impact, geospatial analysis, sustainable cities

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