{"id":61891,"date":"2026-10-08T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/2026\/10\/towards-regional-land-use-management-the-design-process-of-policy-instruments-for-collective-action\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:41:51","slug":"towards-regional-land-use-management-the-design-process-of-policy-instruments-for-collective-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2026\/10\/towards-regional-land-use-management-the-design-process-of-policy-instruments-for-collective-action\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1523908X.2026.2740012\">Towards regional land-use management: the design process of policy instruments for collective action<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>ILS researchers Angelika M\u00fcnter and Peter Stroms-van der Vlugt, together with colleagues from TU Dortmund University, have published an article in the <em>Journal of Environmental Policy &amp; Planning<\/em>. Drawing on the case of the Bonn\/Rhein-Sieg\/Ahrweiler region, it examines how shared narratives shape the design of inter-municipal policy instruments for sustainable land-use management. Building on theories of collaborative governance, the paper shows that collaboratively designed soft policy instruments, such as a regional density concept, establish a shared knowledge base and enable more evidence-informed discussion of planning conflicts. They create opportunities to coordinate responses to the tension between housing provision and reducing land take across the region. However, inter-municipal competition, a lack of binding commitments and reliance on project-based funding constrain implementation, which remains dependent on voluntary local ratification. Without institutionalized regional capacities and mechanisms for sharing costs and benefits, jointly developed knowledge does not automatically translate into collective action.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1523908X.2026.2740012\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1523908X.2026.2740012<\/a><\/strong>. Further current selected papers can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/professional-publications\/selected-papers\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publikationen-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Towards regional land-use management: the design process of policy instruments for collective action - ILS - Institut f\u00fcr Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2026\/10\/towards-regional-land-use-management-the-design-process-of-policy-instruments-for-collective-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Towards regional land-use management: the design process of policy instruments for collective action - 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