Implementation of law and statutory provisions on industrial immission control in urban planning

本研究项目旨在分析城市规划部门在工业排放控制领域执行规划法的行政行为。在这里，城市规划者必须考虑并遵守几项法律，包括联邦建筑法规（Baugesetzbuch），联邦排放控制法（Bundesimmissionsschutzgesetz）和其他法定规定。对各自法律效力影响最大的是地方一级的执法实践以及地方规划文化的差异。对市政实践的观察表明，执法方面存在相当大的差异，这可以追溯到地方对自由裁量权范围的不同解释。然而，这些差异迄今尚未得到系统的探讨和概念化。本研究项目的目的是分析城市规划中的利益相关者如何实施工业排放控制的法律规范。因此，我们的目的是识别和解释不同类型的行政行为。为此，有必要确定影响城市规划自由裁量权范围的核心因素。工业排放控制的案例研究将是防止噪音和重大工业事故。之所以选择这两个领域，是因为它们在概率、空间范围和受影响人数方面表征了两种不同类型的风险。此外，关于这两个主题的辩论正在进行。具体而言，有四个核心目标：目标1：在城市规划中系统地捕捉有关工业重大事故和工业噪音排放控制的法律和法规的执行情况；目标2：确定影响执行的变量；目标3：建立影响执行的变量的系统类型；目标4：对城市规划部门在工业排放控制领域实施规划法的行政行为进行总结。理论文献综述将导致对影响法律实施的既定变量进行分类，并分析预防噪音和重大工业事故的关键要求。然后，实证研究将采用混合方法，包括定量在线调查、案例研究领域的定性专家访谈和德尔菲法。行为人中心制度主义的理论框架为研究提供了启发式模型。

The research project aims to analyse administrative behaviour of city planning departments concerning the enforcement of planning law in the domain of industrial emission control. Here, urban planners have to consider and adhere to several laws including the Federal Building Code (Baugesetzbuch), Federal Immission Control Act (Bundesimmissionsschutzgesetz) and other statutory provisions. Most influential for the effectiveness of the respective laws are the enforcement practices on the local level as well as differences in local planning culture. The observation of municipal practices reveals considerable disparities in enforcement which can be traced back to locally varying interpretations of the scope of discretion. However, these disparities have not been systematically explored and conceptualised to date. The aim of this research project is to analyse how legal norms on industrial immission control are implemented by stakeholders in urban planning. Hereby we aim to identify and explain different types of administrative behaviour. For this it is necessary to identify core factors influencing the scope of discretion in urban planning. The case studies of industrial immission control will be the prevention of noise and major industrial accidents. These two domains have been selected as they characterise two different types of risk with regard to probability, spatial extent and number of people affected. Furthermore there is an ongoing debate on both topics. In detail four core aims are pursued: Aim 1: to systematically capture the implementation of law and statutory provisions concerning industrial major accidents and industrial noise immission control in urban planning, Aim 2: to identify variables influencing the implementation,Aim 3: to establish a systematic typology of the variables influencing the implementation, Aim 4: to draw conclusions for administrative behaviour of city planning departments concerning the enforcement of planning law in the domain of industrial immission control.The theoretical literature review will result in a categorisation of established variables influencing the implementation of laws and in an analysis of the key requirements for the prevention of noise and major industrial accidents. The empirical research will then follow a mixed methods approach including a quantitative online survey, qualitative expert interviews in case study areas and a Delphi. The theoretical framework of Actor-Centered Institutionalism provides the heuristic model for the research.