Lecture Programme Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality
Wednesday 2016-11-16 from 18:00 to 19:30 CET Wednesday 2016-11-23 from 18:00 to 19:30 CET Wednesday 2016-11-30 from 18:00 to 19:30 CET Wednesday 2016-12-07: from 18:00 to 19:30 CET Wednesday 2016-12-14: from 18:00 to 19:30 CET
Wednesday 2016-11-09 from 18:00 to 19:30 CET
Landscape eLectures via the LE:NOTRE Institute: Ideas and Mission The eLecture programme aims to bring a variety of specialist lectures on a range of interdisciplinary landscape topics directly to your desktop or mobile internet device. We will briefly explain the history of this electure series and
Dr. Ellen Fetzer (DE) Ellen Fetzer initiates and coordinates elearning activities at Nürtingen-Geislingen University in cooperation with international partners. She also works for the International Master Programme in Landscape Architecture (IMLA). Ellen is a board member of the LE:NOTRE Institute and vice-president of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.
Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality - an Introduction by Prof. Dr. Michael Roth (DE) In this introductory lecture, the aims and scope of the COST Action TU1401 “Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality (RELY)” will be presented. The importance of achieving social acceptance for renewable energy installations in the landscape will be discussed. Case-Studies from Germany are used to illustrate the potential of landscape planning for contributing to the energy turnaround while at the same time safeguarding landscape quality.
Prof. Dr. Michael Roth (DE) Michael Roth is professor for landscape planning, especially landscape informatics at Nürtingen-Geislingen University. He is chair of the COST Action TU1401 “Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality (RELY)”. His research focuses on visual landscape quality assessment, impacts of energy infrastructure on perceived landscape quality and participative landscape planning.
Social acceptability of renewable energies This lecture will explore the diverse social factors that play a role in generating acceptance or resistance towards renewable energies, both at the national and local levels. It will discuss variations in acceptance by country, by social group and by type of technology.
Dr. Ana Delicado (PT) Ana Delicado is a sociologist. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Ana Delicado is specialised in social studies of science and technology and has conducted research on renewable energies in Portugal.
Factors affecting the uneven spatial diffusion of wind energy projects: The case of the Czech Republic
Regional differences in the realization of wind energy projects are not determined just by physical-geographical and infrastructural conditions of areas but they are also affected by political-institutional and socioeconomic factors. This research revealed that the rate of implementation of wind energy is significantly correlated with the level of urbanization, industrialization, environmental degradation, structural economic depression, higher unemployment and lower social capital of population. The results raise questions about the environmental injustice and spatial concentration of energy production.
Dr. Bohumil Frantal (CZ) Bohumil Frantál is researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on social-spatial contexts of energy transition and related land use conflicts, environmental risk perceptions, urban renewal and brownfields regeneration, local identity processes, quality of life and spatial models of behaviour. He also works as a lecturer at Masaryk University and Palacký University.
Prof. Dr. Pat Brereton (IE) Professor Pat Brereton is Head of School of Communications at Dublin City University. Since completing his PhD in 2001 he has remained fascinated with all aspects of Environmental Communications and has published several books and journal articles in this field.
Dr. Anja Brüll (BE) Dr. Anja Brüll is an independent landscape planner and founder of the Aquatectura-studios for regenerative landscapes. Presently she works as the project leader of the Three Countries Park – a cross-border landscape platform in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine.
Prof. Dr. Mojca Golobič (SI) Mojca Golobic is head of the Department for Landscape architecture at the University of Ljubljana, where she has a full time teaching position and leads the research program “landscape as a living environment”. Her teaching and research work focusses on methods in environmental and land-use planning, quality of urban environment, policy evaluation and public participation.
Prof. Dr. Karl Benediktsson (IS) Karl Benediktsson is a human geographer who has researched landscape issues and politics of conservation in his native Iceland. Among his publications in these fields is the edited volume Conversations with Landscape (Ashgate, 2010) as well as several journal articles and other writings.
Prof. Dr. Sven Stremke (NL) Sven Stremke is Assistant Professor for Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, Principal Investigator at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) and founding director of the NRGlab, a research laboratory on energy transition. His research and teaching focuses on the relations between renewable energy technologies and landscapes.
Prof. Dr. David Miller (UK) David Miller is the Knowledge Exchange Coordinator at James Hutton Institute, UK. His research background includes the development and application of approaches to public engagement using visualisation and virtual reality tools, landscape analysis, and spatial modelling.