A city on the edge: the political ecology of urban green space

IF 2 2区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Urbanization Pub Date : 2021-06-13 DOI:10.1177/09562478211019836

P. Cobbinah, Valentina Nyame

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Abstract

African cities, faced with rapid urbanization and haphazard land use practices, struggle to address their fast-declining urban green space (UGS). Yet the spatial extent of UGS, and the influence of city planning legislation and frameworks, remains largely unexplored. Using a case study of Kumasi, Ghana, this study draws on mixed methods to address three research questions: (i) How did Kumasi’s UGS evolve from 1991 to 2019? (ii) How do city planning, legislation and the regulatory framework influence UGS management? (iii) What is the land governance institutional culture for managing UGS? Findings from the spatial analysis indicate a loss of over 80 per cent in Kumasi’s UGS between 1991 and 2019. Although unplanned urbanization, poor urban planning and political interference were frequently discussed as contributory factors, the foundational cause was found to lie in the complex and conflicting relationship between land governance agencies. This situation has resulted in the absence of a culture of coordination with regard to urban development, particularly towards UGS.

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边缘城市：城市绿地的政治生态

非洲城市面临着快速的城市化和随意的土地利用做法，难以解决其快速下降的城市绿地（UGS）问题。然而，UGS的空间范围，以及城市规划立法和框架的影响，在很大程度上仍未得到探索。通过对加纳库马西的案例研究，本研究采用混合方法来解决三个研究问题：（i）库马西的UGS从1991年到2019年是如何演变的？（ii）城市规划、立法和监管框架如何影响教资会的管理？（iii）管理教资会的土地治理制度文化是什么？空间分析结果表明，库马西的UGS在1991年至2019年间损失了80%以上。尽管计划外的城市化、糟糕的城市规划和政治干预经常被讨论为促成因素，但其根本原因在于土地管理机构之间复杂而冲突的关系。这种情况导致在城市发展方面缺乏协调文化，特别是在UGS方面。

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期刊介绍： Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high-income nations. Most of the papers it publishes are written by authors from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Papers may be submitted in French, Spanish or Portuguese, as well as English - and if accepted for publication, the journal arranges for their translation into English. The journal is also unusual in the proportion of its papers that are written by practitioners.