Description
In response to climate change, limited fossil fuels, and rising energy demand and prices, renewable energy is heavily promoted throughout Europe. While objectives to boost renewable energy and trans-European energy networks are ambitious, it is increasingly understood that public acceptance becomes a constraining factor, and general support for green energy does not always translate into local support for specific projects. Perceived landscape change and loss of landscape quality have featured heavily in opposition campaigns in many European countries, even though renewable energy can facilitate sustainable development, especially in disadvantaged regions rich in wind, water, biomass, geothermal or solar energy. This Action investigates the inter-relationships between renewable energy production and landscape quality, and the role of public participation for the acceptance of renewable energy systems. The Action will develop a better understanding of how landscape protection and management, and renewable energy deployment can be reconciled to contribute socio-environmentally to the sustainable transformation of energy systems. This Action will consolidate and extend knowledge from a pan-European perspective using a modular methodological framework. This Action will enhance the science base for decision-making, and develop guidelines for public participation in planning renewable energy systems. The potential of sustainable landscape development, with innovative land uses producing synergies for landscape quality and renewable energy, will be revealed.Period | 2015 → 2018 |
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A comparative study of beach nourishment methods in selected areas of the coasts of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands
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Glossary on renewable energy and landscape quality: the glossary
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Method for synchronisation of soil and root behaviour for assessment of stability of vegetated slopes
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The implementation of geotechnical data Into the BIM process
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Debris flow behaviour and travel distance: Col du Sabot, France
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Innovative approach in the stabilisation of coastal slopes
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Construction and testing of self-drilled soil nails
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A local authority’s risk-based approach to principal inspection frequency of structures
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Plant-soil reinforcement response under different soil hydrological regimes
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Resilient design of landslip prevention measures: a case study
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A non-invasive preferential root distribution analysis methodology from a slope stability approach
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Mechanical reinforcement of soil by willow roots: impacts of root properties and root failure mechanism
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Integrated model for the hydro-mechanical effects of vegetation against shallow landslides
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Ecological mitigation of hillslope instability: ten key issues facing researchers and practitioners
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Root morphology and effects on soil reinforcement and slope stability of young vetiver (Vetiveria zizanioides) plants grown in semi-arid climate
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