scholarly journals Does rated visual landscape quality match visual features? An analysis for renewable energy landscapes

2021 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 104000
Author(s):  
Reto Spielhofer ◽  
Marcel Hunziker ◽  
Felix Kienast ◽  
Ulrike Wissen Hayek ◽  
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Visual Features ◽  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
Landscape Quality

scholarly journals Effects of renewable energy on landscape in Europe: Comparison of hydro, wind, solar, bio-, geothermal and infrastructure energy landscapes

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Frolova ◽  
Csaba Centeri ◽  
Karl Benediktsson ◽  
Marcel Hunziker ◽  
Robert Kabai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Landscape Impacts

Landscape quality has become a fundamental issue in the development of renewable energy (henceforth abbreviated RE) projects. Rapid technological advances in RE production and distribution, coupled with changing policy frameworks, bring specific challenges during planning in order to avoid degradation of landscape quality. The current work provides a comprehensive review on RE landscapes and the impacts of RE systems on landscape for most European countries. It is based on a review by an interdisciplinary international team of experts of empirical research findings on landscape impacts of RE from thirty-seven countries that have participated in the COST Action TU1401 Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality (RELY).

scholarly journals PECSRL 2018: European landscapes for quality of life, 3-9 September 2018, Clermont-Ferrand and Mende, France

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-198
Author(s):  
Maria Bostenaru Dan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
European Level ◽  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Cost Action ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
The Cost

This article presents a review of the 28th session of the biannual conference of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape which was organized in cooperation with the COST action TU1401 “Renewable energy and landscape quality”, building the final conference of the later, after a previous cooperation at the 27th session. The conference was held in Clermont-Ferrand and Mende, around the Chaîne des Puys UNESCO landscape. The landscape, although in France, is one of the remote landscapes in Europe, and was explored by means of the study tours which built the transfer between the first part of the conference in Clermont-Ferrand and the second one in Mende. These tours were various, but emphasized a dimension already present in the session, the agricultural landscape as rural landscape. The agricultural landscape stays also in connection with the geo-products of the UNESCO geopark, and contributes to the quality of life. As management committee substitute in the COST action, a networking scheme funded at European level, the author attended the sessions related to the topic of the action and presented a contribution highlighting the romantic of historic renewable energy landscapes. Their perception contributes to the quality of life as well. Other participants from Romania participated to a dedicated session on Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals Towards Managing Visual Pollution: A 3D Isovist and Voxel Approach to Advertisement Billboard Visual Impact Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 656
Author(s):  
Szymon Chmielewski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Quality Issue ◽  
Geometrical Quality ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
Visual Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Visible Volume

Visual pollution (VP) is a visual landscape quality issue, and its most consistently recognized symptom is an excess of out of home advertising billboards (OOHb). However, the VP related research concerns landscape aesthetic and advertisement cultural context, leaving the impact of outdoor billboard infrastructure on landscape openness unanswered to date. This research aims to assess the visual impact of outdoor billboard infrastructure on landscape openness, precisely the visual volume—a key geometrical quality of a landscape. The method uses 3D isovists and voxels to calculate the visible and obstructed subsets of visible volume. Using two case studies (Lublin City, Poland) and 26 measurement points, it was found that OOHb decreased landscape openness by at least 4% of visible volume; however, the severe impact may concern up to 35% of visual volume. GIS scientists develop the proposed method for policy-makers, and urban planners end users. It is also the very first example of compiling 3D isovists and voxels in ArcGIS Pro software in an easy-to-replicate framework. The research results, accompanied by statistically significant proofs, explain the visual landscape’s fragility and contribute to understanding the VP phenomenon.

Social Barriers to Renewable Energy Landscapes*

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Pasqualetti
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Social Barriers

scholarly journals Ecosystem Services for Scenic Quality Landscape Management: A Review

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1123
Author(s):  
Richard Smardon
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Management Implications ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
Landscape Quality

Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project proposed the valuation of ecosystem services—defined as regulatory, provisional, ecosystem and cultural—the question arises as to the utility of such assessments for scenic landscape management. This author as well as others has looked at the issue of integrating ecological concerns with landscape planning. This article will be a comprehensive literature review and analysis of issues involved with utilizing ecosystem services of assessment of scenic/visual landscape quality as well as management implications. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of cultural ecosystem services.

Deploying ecosystem services to develop sustainable energy landscapes: a case study from the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Picchi ◽  
Simone Verzandvoort ◽  
Davide Geneletti ◽  
Kees Hendriks ◽  
Sven Stremke
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Planning And Design

PurposeThe transition to a low carbon future is an emerging challenge and requires the planning and designing of sustainable energy landscapes – landscapes that provide renewable energy while safeguarding the supply of other ecosystem services. The aim of this paper is to present the application of an ecosystem services trade-off assessment in the development of sustainable energy landscapes for long-term strategic planning in a case study in Schouwen-Duivenland, The Netherlands.Design/methodology/approachThe application consists in three activities: in (1) stakeholder mapping hot spots of ecosystem services and renewable energy technologies in a workshop, (2) landscape design principles being discussed by a focus group, (3) experts gathering the information and proceeding with an assessment of the potential synergies and trade-offs.FindingsThe case study indicates that (1) deploying the ecosystem services framework in planning and design can enhance the development of sustainable energy landscapes, (2) diversified and accurate spatial reference systems advance the trade-off analysis of both regulating and cultural ecosystem services and (3) the involvement of local stakeholders can advance the trade-off analysis and, ultimately, facilitates the transition to a low-carbon future with sustainable energy landscapes.Originality/valueThe originality of this research lies in the creation of an approach for the deployment of ecosystem services in the planning and design of energy transition. This is useful to advance energy transition by enhancing research methods, by providing methods useful for planners and designers and by supporting communities pursuing energy self-sufficiency in a sustainable manner.

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