Results of the CLAIM-survey are published online
The Comparative Law Analysis on Instruments for Sustainable Land Management (CLAIM) study provides a comparative legal analysis of how key conditions for sustainable land management are incorporated within environmental and planning laws in six countries (Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Spain and the USA) executed by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig.
In doing so it takes as given four key governance requirements for sustainable land use which environmental and planning law must fulfil or indeed guarantee:
- the existence of a sustainability strategy and its implementation by means of specified environmental quality objectives
- coordinated and integrated implementation of legal instruments
- access to sustainability-related knowledge (scientific and technical knowhow) and the possibility of adapting decisions in light of it
- public participation in these processes
The study focuses on cross-sector regulatory approaches and on selected land-use sectors (agriculture, river catchment-related water resources management, urban development and energy landscapes) and places particular emphasis on the environmental aspect of sustainable development as well as on cross-cutting instruments, especially spatial planning. With regard to methods, qualitative questionnaires and interviews were chosen as a basis for a comparative legal approach. A total of six country reports were compiled by legal experts in the respective countries on the basis of the questionnaire results.
, , Sander van 鈥榯 Foort and took part in the survey providing the Dutch part. The results are available in this publication: (pdf).
More information about this project: .
Sander van 鈥榯 Foort and Julian Kevelam published about the Dutch results in a Dutch journal (Tijdschrift voor Omgevingsrecht).