TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainability impact assessment tools for land use policy advice
T2 - A comparative analysis of five research approaches
AU - Sieber, Stefan
AU - Amjath-Babu, T.S.
AU - Reidsma, Pytrik
AU - Koenig, Hannes
AU - Piorr, Annette
AU - Bezlepkina, Irina
AU - Mueller, Klaus
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Since 2007, a range of new modeling approaches and tools have been developed for sustainability impact assessment (SIA), but a lack of universal acceptance of SIA tools in applied policy making is observed. The current article gives an overview of experiences from several European and international projects, critically reviews the selected SIA tools and then discusses a number of reasons for the observed disconnect of the tools with the potential users. Largely based on the experiences of the presented SIA tools focusing land use policy advice, a decision tree is designed, which may facilitate an adequate, region and developmental phase specific selection of tool-box components for the development of SIA tools in future. Elements to ensure end-user participation are also integrated in the decision tree in order to increase the likelihood of the tool in applied land use policy advice. In addition, the Challenges in SIA tool development and use are further discussed.
AB - Since 2007, a range of new modeling approaches and tools have been developed for sustainability impact assessment (SIA), but a lack of universal acceptance of SIA tools in applied policy making is observed. The current article gives an overview of experiences from several European and international projects, critically reviews the selected SIA tools and then discusses a number of reasons for the observed disconnect of the tools with the potential users. Largely based on the experiences of the presented SIA tools focusing land use policy advice, a decision tree is designed, which may facilitate an adequate, region and developmental phase specific selection of tool-box components for the development of SIA tools in future. Elements to ensure end-user participation are also integrated in the decision tree in order to increase the likelihood of the tool in applied land use policy advice. In addition, the Challenges in SIA tool development and use are further discussed.
KW - End user participation
KW - Land use policy application
KW - Model development
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainable impact assessment
U2 - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.042
DO - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.042
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85035806001
SN - 0264-8377
VL - 71
SP - 75
EP - 85
JO - Land Use Policy
JF - Land Use Policy
ER -