@phdthesis{Rolf2020,
  author    = {Rolf, Werner},
  title     = {Peri-urban farmland included in green infrastructure strategies promotes transformation pathways towards sustainable urban development},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-47700},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-477002},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {IV, 116},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Urbanization and agricultural land use are two of the main drivers of global changes with effects on ecosystem functions and human wellbeing. Green Infrastructure is a new approach in spatial planning contributing to sustainable urban development, and to address urban challenges, such as biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, green economy development, and social cohesion. Because the research focus has been mainly on open green space structures, such as parks, urban forest, green building, street green, but neglected spatial and functional potentials of utilizable agricultural land, this thesis aims at fill this gap. This cumulative thesis addresses how agricultural land in urban and peri-urban landscapes can contribute to the development of urban green infrastructure as a strategy to promote sustainable urban development. Therefore, a number of different research approaches have been applied. First, a quantitative, GIS-based modeling approach looked at spatial potentials, addressing the heterogeneity of peri-urban landscape that defines agricultural potentials and constraints. Second, a participatory approach was applied, involving stakeholder opinions to evaluate multiple urban functions and benefits. Finally, an evidence synthesis was conducted to assess the current state of research on evidence to support future policy making at different levels. The results contribute to the conceptual understanding of urban green infrastructures as a strategic spatial planning approach that incorporates inner-urban utilizable agricultural land and the agriculturally dominated landscape at the outer urban fringe. It highlights the proposition that the linkage of peri-urban farmland with the green infrastructure concept can contribute to a network of multifunctional green spaces to provide multiple benefits to the urban system and to successfully address urban challenges. Four strategies are introduced for spatial planning with the contribution of peri-urban farmland to a strategically planned multifunctional network, namely the connecting, the productive, the integrated, and the adapted way. Finally, this thesis sheds light on the opportunities that arise from the integration of the peri- urban farmland in the green infrastructure concept to support transformation towards a more sustainable urban development. In particular, the inherent core planning principle of multifunctionality endorses the idea of co-benefits that are considered crucial to trigger transformative processes. This work concludes that the linkage of peri-urban farmland with the green infrastructure concept is a promising action field for the development of new pathways for urban transformation towards sustainable urban development. Along with these outcomes, attention is drawn to limitations that remain to be addressed by future research, especially the identification of further mechanisms required to support policy integration at all levels.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{SegertZierke2005,
  author    = {Segert, Astrid and Zierke, Irene},
  title     = {Regionale Ungleichheiten aus der Perspektive nachhaltiger Regionalentwicklung},
  number    = {16},
  edition   = {2., durchges. Fassung},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-937786-51-3},
  issn      = {1434-2375},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-5914},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {120},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Die Autorinnen wenden sich an WissenschaftlerInnen und PraktikerInnen, die an nachhaltiger Regionalenwicklung, an regionalen Ungleichheiten und insbesondere an l{\"a}ndlichen R{\"a}umen interessiert sind. In der Studie wird aktuelles statistisches Material zu Nachhaltigkeitsressourcen und -defiziten in den durch die Raumordnung definierten neun siedlungsstrukturellen Kreistypen Deutschlands aufbereitet. Im Zentrum der Analyse stehen vier l{\"a}ndliche Regionstypen, die sich nach ihren Entwicklungspotentialen und Problemlagen unterscheiden. Sie werden anhand verf{\"u}gbarer Daten mit NUTS3- bzw. NUTS2-Gebieten der Europ{\"a}ischen Union verglichen. Es wird gezeigt, wie sich deutsche l{\"a}ndliche Gebiete im europ{\"a}ischen Rahmen positionieren. Die Analyseergebnisse werden durch Tabellen und Karten zur r{\"a}umlichen Verteilung von Ressourcen veranschaulicht. F{\"u}r die vier l{\"a}ndlichen Kreistypen in Deutschland werden Nachhaltigkeitsbilanzen zusammengefasst und mit europ{\"a}ischen l{\"a}ndlichen Raumtypen verglichen. Abschließend werden {\"U}berlegungen f{\"u}r raumspezifische Pfade der Regionalentwicklung f{\"u}r jeden analysierten l{\"a}ndlichen Kreistyp zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Autorinnen sind langj{\"a}hrige Mitarbeiterinnen der Forschungsgruppe "Umweltsoziologie" der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakult{\"a}t der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam.},
  subject      = {Regionalentwicklung},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{SegertZierke2005,
  author    = {Segert, Astrid and Zierke, Irene},
  title     = {Regionale Ungleichheiten aus der Perspektive nachhaltiger Regionalentwicklung},
  series = {Brandenburgische Umwelt-Berichte : BUB ; Schriftenreihe der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakult{\"a}t der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {Brandenburgische Umwelt-Berichte : BUB ; Schriftenreihe der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakult{\"a}t der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  issn      = {1434-2375},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-5538},
  pages     = {120},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Die Autorinnen wenden sich an WissenschaftlerInnen und PraktikerInnen, die an nachhaltiger Regionalenwicklung, an regionalen Ungleichheiten und insbesondere an l{\"a}ndlichen R{\"a}umen interessiert sind. In der Studie wird aktuelles statistisches Material zu Nachhaltigkeitsressourcen und -defiziten in den durch die Raumordnung definierten neun siedlungsstrukturellen Kreistypen Deutschlands aufbereitet. Im Zentrum der Analyse stehen vier l{\"a}ndliche Regionstypen, die sich nach ihren Entwicklungspotentialen und Problemlagen unterscheiden. Sie werden anhand verf{\"u}gbarer Daten mit NUTS3- bzw. NUTS2-Gebieten der Europ{\"a}ischen Union verglichen. Es wird gezeigt, wie sich deutsche l{\"a}ndliche Gebiete im europ{\"a}ischen Rahmen positionieren. Die Analyseergebnisse werden durch Tabellen und Karten zur r{\"a}umlichen Verteilung von Ressourcen veranschaulicht. F{\"u}r die vier l{\"a}ndlichen Kreistypen in Deutschland werden Nachhaltigkeitsbilanzen zusammengefasst und mit europ{\"a}ischen l{\"a}ndlichen Raumtypen verglichen. Abschließend werden {\"U}berlegungen f{\"u}r raumspezifische Pfade der Regionalentwicklung f{\"u}r jeden analysierten l{\"a}ndlichen Kreistyp zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Autorinnen sind langj{\"a}hrige Mitarbeiterinnen der Forschungsgruppe "Umweltsoziologie" der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakult{\"a}t der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam.},
  subject      = {Regionalentwicklung},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{Zuellich2011,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Z{\"u}llich, Gunda},
  title     = {Migration and development in Senegal : a system dynamics analysis of the feedback relationships},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57836},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {This thesis investigates the reciprocal relationship between migration and development in Senegal. Therewith, it contributes to the debate as to whether migration in developing countries enhances or rather impedes the development process. Even though extensive and controversial discussions can be found in the scientific literature regarding the impact of migration on development, research has scarcely examined the feedback relationships between migration and development. Science however agrees with both the fact that migration affects development as well as that the level of development in a country determines migration behaviour. Thus, both variables are neither dependent nor independent, but endogenous variables influencing each other and producing behavioural pattern that cannot be investigated using a static and unidirectional approach. On account of this, the thesis studies the feedback mechanisms existing between migration and development and the behavioural pattern generated by the high interdependence in order to be able to draw conclusions concerning the impact of changes in migration behaviour on the development process. To explore these research questions, the study applies the computer simulation method 'System Dynamics' and amplifies the simulation model for national development planning called 'Threshold 21' (T21), representing development processes endogenously and integrating economic, social and environmental aspects, using a structure that portrays the reasons and consequences of migration. The model has been customised to Senegal, being an appropriate representative of the theoretical interesting universe of cases. The comparison of the model generated scenarios - in which the intensity of emigration, the loss and gain of education, the remittances or the level of dependence changes - facilitates the analysis. The present study produces two important results. The first outcome is the development of an integrative framework representing migration and development in an endogenous way and incorporating several aspects of different theories. This model can be used as a starting point for further discussions and improvements and it is a fairly relevant and useful result against the background that migration is not integrated into most of the development planning tools despite its significant impact. The second outcome is the gained insights concerning the feedback relations between migration and development and the impact of changes in migration on development. To give two examples: It could be found that migration impacts development positively, indicated by HDI, but that the dominant behaviour of migration and development is a counteracting behaviour. That means that an increase in emigration leads to an improvement in development, while this in turn causes a decline in emigration, counterbalancing the initial increase. Another insight concerns the discovery that migration causes a decline in education in the short term, but leads to an increase in the long term, after approximately 25 years - a typical worse-before-better behaviour. From these and further observations, important policy implications can be derived for the sending and receiving countries. Hence, by overcoming the unidirectional perspective, this study contributes to an improved understanding of the highly complex relationship between migration and development and their feedback relations.},
  language  = {en}
}