Publication: Integrated Visions Part II

WHAT: publication of 'Integrated Visions (Part II): Envisioning Sustainable Energy Landscapes'
AUTHORS: Sven Stremke, Jususk Koh, Kees Neven, Arjan Boekel
JOURNAL: European Planning Studies, volume 20, issue 4, April 2012, pages 609-626

ABSTRACT
Climate change and resource depletion are driving the transition to renewable energy sources. Both the supply of renewables and the demand for energy are influenced by the physical environment and therefore concern spatial planning and landscape design. Envisioning the long-term development of alternative energy landscapes – that is sustainable energy landscapes – present spatial planners and landscape architects with new challenges. The first paper of this two-part series discussed several existing approaches to long-term regional planning and landscape design, and presented an alternative, five-step approach for the composition of integrated visions [Stremke, S., Kann, F. Van & Koh, J. (2012) Integrated Visions (part I): Methodological Framework, European Planning Studies, [20(2), pp. 305–320]. This paper illustrates how the five-step approach was employed to compose a set of integrated visions for the development of sustainable energy landscapes in south of the Netherlands. The proposed five-step approach is then examined with respect to a set of criteria stressed in the planning and design literature.

NOTE
Abstract and full version of the article on website Taylor & Francis Online.
WUR students can find the full article (also) at the WUR library.
Others can contact Sven Stremke for a full version.