TY - JOUR
T1 - To populate or preserve? Evolving political-demographic and environmental paradigms in Israeli land-use policy
AU - Orenstein, Daniel E.
AU - Hamburg, Steven P.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Rassem Khamaisi and Dror Hawlena for helping us explore the facts on the ground in the Galilee and the Negev, respectively. We thank Yaakov Garb, Eilon Schwartz, Rachelle Alterman and two anonymous reviewers for their important comments and recommendations. We also recognize the important contribution of our colleagues in the Brown University Land-Use/Land Change working group. Spatial data was generously provided by the Cartography Library and the GIS Center of Hebrew University, and the GIS Unit of the Keren Kayamet L’Yisrael, central division. Funding was provided to Daniel Orenstein through a Luce Graduate Student Fellowship at Brown University. This paper was first presented at the Population Association of America 2005 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Funding Information:
The recent “Daroma” plan for comprehensive development of the Negev has been promoted by a non-governmental organization by the same name and by Shimon Peres. It was allocated 400 million shekels of government funding ( PMO, 2006 ) and received financial support from the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Fund. The stated goal of this plan is to improve education and infrastructure, expand and create new settlements, and assure high quality of life in order to bring 400,000 new residents to the Negev ( PMO, 2005a ). This plan is supplemented by the Jewish National Fund in the United States through their Blueprint Negev project to establish 25 new low-density communities in the south ( JNF, 2005 ).
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - There has been a recent proliferation of national land-use policies that emphasize protecting open space and ecosystem integrity. However, countries grappling with internal political conflict, or that are engaged in military conflicts with neighboring countries, have priorities that focus on control of land in areas where state sovereignty is perceived to be threatened. These two concerns, political-demographic control and environmental protection, create very different paradigms for how to think about open space policy. The objective of this paper is to consider the impact of competing paradigms in land-use policy formulation and implementation-one that encourages sprawl and the other that encourages compact development and the preservation of open space. We use Israel as a case study where both political demography and environmental land-use paradigms are currently influencing policy and planning. We explore the historical evolution of both land-use paradigms and consider how they are currently competing in the formulation and execution of land-use policy decisions. We consider how these distinct priorities are playing out in current discourse and policy implementation, and characterize the past, current and prospective future physical outcomes of policies on the landscape. Our goal is to alert policy makers and land-use scholars of the subtle and contradictory influence of political-demographic land-use priorities with regard to their potential impact on the successful implementation of environmental policies. The Israeli case study is indicative of a diversity of countries that have a history of political-demographic land-use policies, but have also begun to adopt environmentally motivated policies.
AB - There has been a recent proliferation of national land-use policies that emphasize protecting open space and ecosystem integrity. However, countries grappling with internal political conflict, or that are engaged in military conflicts with neighboring countries, have priorities that focus on control of land in areas where state sovereignty is perceived to be threatened. These two concerns, political-demographic control and environmental protection, create very different paradigms for how to think about open space policy. The objective of this paper is to consider the impact of competing paradigms in land-use policy formulation and implementation-one that encourages sprawl and the other that encourages compact development and the preservation of open space. We use Israel as a case study where both political demography and environmental land-use paradigms are currently influencing policy and planning. We explore the historical evolution of both land-use paradigms and consider how they are currently competing in the formulation and execution of land-use policy decisions. We consider how these distinct priorities are playing out in current discourse and policy implementation, and characterize the past, current and prospective future physical outcomes of policies on the landscape. Our goal is to alert policy makers and land-use scholars of the subtle and contradictory influence of political-demographic land-use priorities with regard to their potential impact on the successful implementation of environmental policies. The Israeli case study is indicative of a diversity of countries that have a history of political-demographic land-use policies, but have also begun to adopt environmentally motivated policies.
KW - Environmental policy
KW - Israel
KW - Land-use/land cover change
KW - Open space preservation
KW - Policy paradigm
KW - Political demography
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U2 - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.12.003
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AN - SCOPUS:64049102852
SN - 0264-8377
VL - 26
SP - 984
EP - 1000
JO - Land Use Policy
JF - Land Use Policy
IS - 4
ER -