Urban regeneration plays a significant role in the creation of climate-friendly urban areas. Urban regeneration strategies such as (1) the creation of open spaces and green infrastructure, (2) the effective use of inner-city land, (3) changes in land-use structure and elements through regeneration of inner-city areas, and (4) changes in building stock through retrofitting existing buildings and the construction of green buildings can all help with climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. Many cities throughout the world have enacted urban regeneration policies, plans, and programmes, highlighting the significance of implementing climate measures into urban regeneration policies and initiatives at the supranational, national, regional, and municipal levels.
The government of the Republic of Korea has made urban regeneration a primary priority, investing a significant amount of public funds in the process. Korea's urban regeneration initiative has made tremendous progress, with projects in numerous cities around the country currently underway. However, Korea's urban regeneration rarely takes up the opportunities to incorporate climate measures into its policy and plans. As a result of these fragmented policy approaches, both urban regeneration and climate change policies may become inefficient in terms of inefficient budget execution and staff management.
Although recent Korean studies have emphasised the significance of incorporating climate change measures into urban regeneration areas, these studies do not provide empirical evidence of specific institutional hurdles and only provide a limited amount of recommendations for successful climate policy integration in urban regeneration policies and plans. According to the literature on environmental policy integration and climate mainstreaming in worldwide academic discussion, there is a lack of empirical information on the factors that influence policy implementation phases. Identification of variables influencing the integration of climate change policies into urban regeneration—at both the policy development and implementation stages—is crucial to understanding effective climate policy integration in this policy domain.
The goals of this dissertation are to (1) investigate the current urban regeneration process and how it incorporates climate measures, (2) identify the relevant internal and external factors that influence the integration of climate measures into urban regeneration policy during the policy development and implementation stages, and (3) identify implementation gaps in the integration of climate measures into urban regeneration projects during the policy development and implementation stages.
This study develops a conceptual framework based on earlier studies that examine (1) the assessment of climate policy integration levels and (2) the factors that influence climate policy integration across policy domains. This dissertation takes a qualitative case study method, integrating content analysis, process tracing, and document analysis with data from semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholder representatives, as well as a collection of relevant documents. Seoul was chosen as the case study area because it is a densely populated city with active urban regeneration and climate change policies. The case study provides empirical evidence of relevant factors for the climate policy integration in urban regeneration for cities that are pursuing successful integration of climate measures into urban regeneration policy.
Throughout the policy cycle, this study gives a detailed list of internal and external factors that influence the incorporation of climate measures into urban regeneration. Political factors, organisational factors, and resources are critical factors in both policy development and policy implementation, as previous studies have shown. However, in the policy development and policy implementation stages, this dissertation studies more detailed aspects within these categories and examines them closely by categorising them into internal and external factors. According to existing research in this field, implementation gaps are caused by a lack of sustained political support and cooperation among key stakeholders, rather than a lack of knowledge or financial resources. Other factors related to implementation gaps, such as (1) a lack/absence of information about climate measures, (2) residents' pecuniary focus, (3) public awareness and support, and (4) spatial issues such as lack of facilities/spaces for adopting climate measures, are all significant impacts in the case study of Seoul. This study suggests that sharing information and research about the effectiveness of climate measures is a good place to start when it comes to improving the level of climate policy integration in urban regeneration policies; urban regeneration stakeholders should have enough information on potential climate measure strategies that can be integrated into urban regeneration projects, as well as the benefits of doing so for the neighbourhood (e.g. climate-related businesses which support community cooperation and profit generation, community-based climate activities, and more diverse ways of measuring the success of climate measures in order to educate the public better).:1. Introduction
1.1. Research background
1.2. Research questions and design
1.3. Structure
2. Theoretical/conceptual background
2.1. Responses to climate change
2.2. Concept of urban regeneration
2.3. Background of environmental/climate policy integration and mainstreaming
2.4. International trends and academic discussions on the opportunities for climate policy integration in urban regeneration
2.5. Factors for the climate policy integration in urban regeneration in the policy cycle
2.5.1. Structure of the climate policy integration
2.5.2. Detailed factors of the climate policy integration
2.5.3. The level of climate policy integration in different stages of the policy cycle
2.6. Developing an analytical concept
2.7. Research gaps regarding factors affecting climate policy integration along the policy cycle
2.8. Formulating research questions
3. Research design and methods
3.1. Research design
3.2. Selection of study areas
3.3. Data collection and analysis methods
4. Exploring the context: Seoul and its neighbourhoods
4.1. Seoul
4.1.1. Features of Seoul and evolution of urban regeneration in Seoul
4.1.2. Climate change issues
4.1.3. Characteristics of residential areas in Seoul
4.2. Features of study areas in Seoul
4.2.1. Jangwi-dong
4.2.2. Sangdo 4-dong
4.2.3. Amsa-dong
4.2.4. Garibong-dong
5. Urban regeneration and climate change policies in Korea
5.1. Urban regeneration policy and plan at national, city, and community levels
5.1.1. Urban regeneration policy in Korea
5.1.2. Urban regeneration policy and plan in Seoul
5.1.3. Neighbourhood urban regeneration plans
5.1.4. Process and stakeholders of urban regeneration at national, city, and community levels
5.2. Climate change policy at different levels in Korea
5.2.1. Climate change policy at national level
5.2.2. Climate change policy at city level
5.2.3. Climate change plan at community level
5.3. Integration of climate measures in the process of urban regeneration
5.3.1. Level of the integration of climate measures in urban regeneration policy at national level
5.3.2. Level of the integration of climate measures in urban regeneration policy at city level
5.3.3. Level of the integration of climate measures in urban regeneration plan at community level
5.4. Summary
6. Policy development: Internal and external factors to integrate climate measures into urban regeneration policy
6.1. Internal factors
6.1.1. Political factors
6.1.2. Organisational factors
6.1.3. Resources
6.1.4. Cognitive factors
6.1.5. Characterisation of the problem at hand
6.2. External factors
6.2.1. Public awareness and support
6.2.2. Lack of private sector support
6.3. Relevant factors and gaps regarding factors in the conceptual framework
6.4. Discussion
7. Policy implementation: internal and external factors to integrate climate measures into urban regeneration projects
7.1. Internal factors
7.1.1. Political factors
7.1.2. Organisational factors
7.1.3. Resources
7.1.4. Cognitive factors
7.1.5. Characterisation of the problems/opportunities at hand
7.2. External factors
7.2.1. Residents’ support
7.2.2. Characterisation of the problem at hand
7.2.3. Lack of private sector support
7.2.4. Cognitive factors
7.3. Relevant factors and gaps regarding factors in the conceptual framework
7.4. Discussion and implementation gaps between policy development and policy implementation
8. Conclusions: recommendations to enhance the level of integration of climate measures into urban regeneration
8.1. Synthesis of the dissertation
8.2. Limitations of the research and further research
8.3. Implications for academic discussion and practices
8.4. Recommendations
8.5. Overall conclusion
References
Appendix
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:82893 |
| Date | 12 January 2023 |
| Creators | Song, Jiyoon |
| Contributors | Müller, Bernhard, Kim, Hag-Yeol, Knippschild, Robert, Technische Universität Dresden, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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