The main objective of the Action is to develop a better understanding of how European landscape protection/management and renewable energy deployment can be reconciled to contribute socio-environmentally to the sustainable transformation of energy systems.
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.
- 2012: Wooded grasslands, coordinator: Csaba Centeri, Szent Istvan Unvisity/HU (published: “Biocultural Diversity in Europe” – available as Springer Book)
- 2009: cooperation for: COST-ESF Policy Briefing 41: Landscape in a changing world (contact the secretariat for pdf)
- 2008: Questionnaire on „How to communicate Cultural Landscapes“ – to be presented on a homonymous conference in Germany, German Forum for Cultural Landscapes
- 2007-2009: Eucaland-Project, funded within the culture2007-2013 program of the European Commission. The project was lead by the University of Cambridge, Department of Geography.
Main results of this project, see also the EUCALAND book, which can be ordered through the secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu or amazon:
- I. Methodes for describing European agricultural landscapes: definitions, cultural character and values (coordinator: María Dolores Velarde, ES)
- II. European agricultural landscape history (coordinator: Hans Renes, NL)
- III. Complexity and contingency: classifying the influence of agricultura on European landscapes (coordinator: Graham Fairclough, UK)
- IV: Assessement of policies considering cultural heritage in European agricultural landscapes (coordinator: Lionella Scazzosi, IT)
- V. Planning the future of Europan agricultural landscapes considering their cultural value and heritage (coordinator Christian Steiner, AT)
- VI: Glossary on agricultural terms & Travelling exhibition (coordinator: Alexandra Kruse, Helmut Kruckenberg, DE)