An Analysis of Land Use Planning and Equity Issues Surrounding Hazardous Liquid and Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines in North Carolina
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Osland, Anna Christine. An Analysis of Land Use Planning and Equity Issues Surrounding Hazardous Liquid and Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines In North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011. https://doi.org/10.17615/me9y-yd45APA
Osland, A. (2011). An Analysis of Land Use Planning and Equity Issues Surrounding Hazardous Liquid and Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines in North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://doi.org/10.17615/me9y-yd45Chicago
Osland, Anna Christine. 2011. An Analysis of Land Use Planning and Equity Issues Surrounding Hazardous Liquid and Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines In North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://doi.org/10.17615/me9y-yd45- Last Modified
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Osland, Anna Christine
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
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- Hazardous liquid and natural gas transmission pipelines have received limited attention by planning scholars even though local development decisions can have broad consequences if a rupture occurs. In this dissertation, I evaluated the implications of land-use planning for reducing risk to transmission pipeline hazards in North Carolina via three investigations. First, using a survey of planning directors in jurisdictions with transmission pipeline hazards, I investigated the land use planning tools used to mitigate pipeline hazards and the factors associated with tool adoption. Planning scholars have documented the difficulty of inducing planning in hazardous areas, yet there remain gaps in knowledge about the factors associated with tool adoption. Despite the risks associated with pipeline ruptures, I found most localities use few mitigation tools, and the adoption of regulatory and informational tools appear to be influenced by divergent factors. Whereas risk perception, commitment, capacity, and community context were associated with total tool and information tool use, only risk perception and capacity factors were associated with regulatory tool use. Second, using interviews of emergency managers and planning directors, I examined the role of agency collaboration for building mitigation capacity. Scholars have highlighted the potential of technical collaboration, yet less research has investigated how inter-agency collaboration shapes mitigation capacity. I identify three categories of technical collaboration, discuss how collaborative spillovers can occur from one planning area to another, and challenge the notion that all technical collaborations result in equal mitigation outcomes. Third, I evaluated characteristics of the population near pipelines to address equity concerns. Surprisingly, I did not find broad support for differences in exposure of vulnerable populations. Nonetheless, my analyses uncovered statistically significant clusters of vulnerable groups within the hazard area. Interestingly, development closer to pipelines was newer than areas farther away, illustrating the failure of land-use planning to reduce development encroachment. Collectively, these results highlight the potential of land-use planning to keep people and development from encroaching on pipeline hazards. While this study indicates that planners in many areas address pipeline hazards, it also illustrates how changes to local practices can further reduce risks to human health, homeland security, and the environment.
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- "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of City and Regional Planning."
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- Rodriguez, Daniel
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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