Land Policies in Europe

Thomas Hartmann is the chair of Land Policy, Land Management at the Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany. Within his research on land policy, spatial planning and property rights, a special focus is on urban densification and climate adaptation.Andreas Hengstermann is an associate professor at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning (BYREG) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. His research focuses on comparative land policy, and the relation of planning law, property rights and planning theory.Mathias Jehling is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Germany. His research interests include geographic information, regional settlement structures, urban densification, and institutionalist approaches to land policies.Arthur Schindelegger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Landscape Planning at the BOKU University in Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on spatial planning, land policy, and climate change adaptation.Fabian Wenner is professor for sustainable urban development and alternative mobility concepts at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany. In his research, he combines land policy with transport planning, as well as new digital sources.

• Part A:Opening.- Land Policy vs. Land Policies.- Part B – Country Cases.- Land Policy in Belgium: how to limit land take in a “landowners’ paradise”?.- Land Policy in Czechia – When underregulation brings more conflicts.- Land Policy in England: maintaining equilibrium in a contested system.- Land Policy in Finland - Public land development still standing strong, even on brownfield land.-Land Policy in France: Tensions between national policies and local practice.- Land policy in Germany - waiting for the owner to develop.- Land Policy in Norway – Exploring the boundaries of planning striving for density and car-free living.- Land Policy in Poland – Evolution of the liberalisation of urban planning and policy making.- Land policy in Sweden – The paradoxical difficulty of creating affordable hous-ing at the intersection of municipal land allocation, local planning and housing policy.- Land Policy in Switzerland – A renewed interest in public land-ownership to support land-use planning.- Land Policy in the Netherlands: an Ambiguous Utopia on the Move.-PartC:Reflections.- Chapters of land.- Land Development in Land Policy Processes: Actors and the dominance of the Pipe-Line Effect.- A Reflection on Institutions of Land Policy.- Conclusion on land policies in Europe.