Policy instruments as a trigger for urban sprawl deceleration: monitoring the stability and transformations of green areas.

ABSTRACT: The socialist era postponed suburbanisation in Central and Eastern European countries. After 1990, the process became extremely intensive and transformed the compact form of cities into more decentralised and dispersed urban structures. Therefore, the study aims to identify the main trends in land-cover transformation caused by urban sprawl in peri-urban areas of three Central and Eastern European cities (NUTS 3 level: the Pest County, Bratislava Region, and Krakowski subregion). In addition, we identified various policy tools for green infrastructure protection. We further investigated the extent to which the presence of legal means of nature conservation affects the stability of natural and seminatural areas. The research used an original questionnaire and spatio-temporal analysis. It ha

SUBMITTER: Filepne Kovacs K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10834971 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature