A spatial econometric analysis of land use efficiency in large and small municipalities |
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| Institution: | 1. Università Cattolica, Research Centre on Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development, Brescia (IT) and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy;2. Università Cattolica, Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, Piacenza, Italy;1. School of Economics & Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China;2. School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;1. School of Government, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, 100081, China;2. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China;3. Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, Beijing, 100871, China;1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China;2. China Land Surveying and Planning Institute, Xicheng District, Beijing 100035, China;1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China;2. Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9155, USA;3. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China;4. School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou 310018, China;1. College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China;2. School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi''an Jiaotong University, Xi''an, 710049, China;3. College of Public Administration, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China |
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| Abstract: | We estimate the relationship between urban spatial expansion and its socio-economic determinants in Lombardy, the most urbanised region of Italy (and one of the most of the European Union), at the municipality level. Test results suggest that this relationship varies significantly among municipalities of different size and findings support the hypothesis that larger ones are more efficient in managing land take. In particular, we find that the marginal land consumption per new household is inversely related to the size of the municipality and we link this evidence to the fact that, since more space is often available, small municipalities pay less institutional attention to the issue of land take and consequently internalise less the environmental externalities. This evidence calls for a reflection on the role of planning policies and the effectiveness of undifferentiated measures to contain land take, especially in the case of Italy, where the municipalities, more than 99% of which have less than 50,000 inhabitants, decide on land use transformations. |
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| Keywords: | Land take City size Threshold regression Spatial econometrics |
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