Projects / Programmes
Fostering energy transition through integrated landscape visioning: social learning in different regional institutional contexts
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.08.00 |
Social sciences |
Urbanism |
|
| 4.05.00 |
Biotechnical sciences |
Landscape design |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 5.07 |
Social Sciences |
Social and economic geography |
| 4.01 |
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences |
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
energy transition, renewable energy sources, regional development, landscape planning, institutional context, participatory visioning, social learning
Data for the last 5 years (citations for the last 10 years) on
April 24, 2024;
A3 for period
2018-2022
Data for ARIS tenders (
04.04.2019 – Programme tender,
archive
)
| Database |
Linked records |
Citations |
Pure citations |
Average pure citations |
| WoS |
49 |
479 |
412 |
8.41 |
| Scopus |
55 |
573 |
493 |
8.96 |
Researchers (6)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
38159 |
PhD Tadej Bevk |
Urbanism |
Researcher |
2021 - 2024 |
69 |
| 2. |
57222 |
Maja Debevec |
Urbanism |
Researcher |
2022 - 2024 |
21 |
| 3. |
16378 |
PhD Mojca Golobič |
Urbanism |
Head |
2021 - 2024 |
474 |
| 4. |
54049 |
Manca Krošelj |
Landscape design |
Researcher |
2021 - 2024 |
82 |
| 5. |
50163 |
PhD Tomaž Pipan |
Urbanism |
Researcher |
2021 - 2024 |
103 |
| 6. |
31990 |
PhD Lea Žibret |
Civil engineering |
Researcher |
2022 |
57 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
In this transdisciplinary comparative project, we will address two interrelated problems which hinder energy transition in many countries. The first is a lack of cross-sectorial cooperation amongst different public authorities, which is associated with the second problem, public opposition towards renewable energy projects. This suggests that improved approaches to planning energy transition with better designed stakeholder involvement are needed as projects are often discussed at a late planning phase and detached from other land use systems, hindering the implementation of national, European, and global policies. With this project we propose to develop and test an approach of integrating energy transition issues in comprehensive landscape development plan. The approach includes participatory visioning event practicing regional landscape development in four case regions (two in Slovenia, two in Switzerland). The approach is evaluated in terms of its contribution to social learning among stakeholders and as a viable solution in different institutional settings. The overarching research question is therefore: How does integrating energy development into regional landscape planning contribute to finding shared solutions on future energy transition? The project starts with a systematic context analysis in the case study regions including spatial, social, and institutional aspects. Regional steering boards, constituted of key regional stakeholders, will be formed as an advisory body to enable close and ongoing participation of relevant stakeholders. Based on the findings of the context analysis, further stakeholders will be interviewed and surveyed to determine their problem perspectives of the energy transition in the region and preferred future development visions. This will serve as a baseline measurement of stakeholders’ perspectives on regional energy transition as well as the key input into the participatory process, where the interviewed stakeholders will work together to form a vision of regional development, including energy transition. In these workshops, energy transition will be discussed in the context of future development of other land use systems in the region adopting an integrated landscape approach. The detailed design of the workshops will be custom tailored to each region’s context, but they will all strive to produce shared visions and solutions as an output. After the workshops, stakeholders’ perspectives will be recorded with qualitative interviews and standardized surveys again to provide a post-measurement, which will be compared to the pre-measurement to evaluate the participatory process and its social learning effects. To further propagate the learning effect, master students of landscape architecture will develop project ideas based on the visions. These will be discussed in interactive exhibitions in the study regions to stimulate a broader regional debate, which will again be systematically evaluated. In the final step we will compare the regions’ findings and analyse how differing contexts, specifically institutional differences, have impacted the results. Based on the findings we will prepare a guideline for planning energy transition on a regional level using an integrative landscape approach. The guideline will be validated in workshops with energy and spatial planning professionals.
