What is it about?
Urban facility management (UFM) is an important mean for achieving United Nations' sustainable development goal 11 sustainable cities and communities. However, many of those who advocate UFM overlook the importance of property rights, property relations and other institutional matters that establish many of the ground rules. Due to limited awareness of property rights, hereunder publicly owned private spaces (POPS), attempts to establish well run UFM risk touching the bottom against property borders and disparate bundles of rights.
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Why is it important?
An increasing share of the world's population live in urban areas. Thus, better living conditions in urban areas should be of interest for many. However, development of sustainable cities and communities, hereunder improving the living conditions in cities and urban areas, are not simple tasks. Many attempts of improving the living conditions and making cities and communities more sustainable overlook the importance of property borders and property rights. However, in transformation areas establishing POPS can be one of the keys for development of UFM solutions to facilitate more sustainable cities and communities.
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Establishing well functioning arrangements in situations where owners of different properties have to cooperate to solve common problems is seldom a trivial task. Our article discuss some of the challenges when property rights and property relations are involved.
Associate professor Knut Boge
Norges miljo- og biovitenskapelige universitet
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This page is a summary of: Urban FM and POPS – implications for UN’s SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, May 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing,
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1176/1/012040.
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