Open space preservation is a critical issue responding to undesirable sprawl. Over the past decades, responding to such trends of expansion and sprawl, open space protection has become more intense. Despite open space preservation is a political process, extant studies on the decision of land preservation fail to consider within political process. This study using the perspective of local politics has examined and identified the key factors influencing the approaches of regulatory land use policies. Also this study extended the theoretical arguments of local politics to distributive policy arena. From analytical results, this study provides understanding of role of local politics at open space preservation which is considered as environmental public goods. □ Key words: Local politics, open space preservation, environmental public goods
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