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    Governing the Metropolis: An International Review of Metropolitanisation, Metropolitan Governance and the Relationship with Sustainable Land Management


    Moore-Cherry, Niamh, Kayanan, Carla Maria, Tomaney, John and Pike, Andy (2022) Governing the Metropolis: An International Review of Metropolitanisation, Metropolitan Governance and the Relationship with Sustainable Land Management. Land, 11 (5). p. 761. ISSN 2073-445X

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    Abstract

    Recent research has identified the potential of the metropolitan scale, and indeed metropolitan bodies, in achieving greater coordination and more effective land-use management. In this paper, we have undertaken a systematic scoping review of the English-language literature (2014–2019) on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance, with a view to understanding the potential relationship with more sustainable land management. Our scoping review identified several dominant trends within current research on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance illustrating the complexity between sustainable land management and issues of territorial politics, resourcing, and power relations. The centrality of collaborative working relationships in supporting sustainable land management is identified, yet collaboration and effective metropolitan scale governance is not always an easy task or readily implemented. The paper identifies a series of challenges and concludes that while there is general consensus that the metropolitan arena may be an appropriate scale through which to support more sustainable land management, there is no agreement on the mechanisms to enable this. Steering and more strongly directing metropolitanisation processes through either formal metropolitan governance structures or other tools could provide a potential approach but will require significant adaptation in power and funding structures.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: metropolitan governance; urban sustainability; sustainable land management; urban governance; metropolitanisation; city-regionalism;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
    Item ID: 19537
    Identification Number: 10.3390/land11050761
    Depositing User: Carla Kayanan
    Date Deposited: 27 Feb 2025 16:43
    Journal or Publication Title: Land
    Publisher: MDPI
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19537
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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