Local Neighbourhood planning fo renewable energy

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2011-10-06
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This research contains an institutional analysis on the implementation of renewable energy sources in newly built residential areas. As a member of the European Union, the Netherlands made international agreements on lowering greenhouse gas emissions and enlarging the share of renewable energy sources. Currently the Netherlands remains to have a low share in renewable energy sources in comparison to other Western European countries. This puts the way how the targets are achieved into question. Also, the reason why this implementation is lagging behind in comparison with other countries in Western Europe remains to be a question. While every virtually every sector is capable of lowering greenhouse gas emissions, spatial planning is perceived as a sector that can play an important role in the implementation of renewable energy sources. Within the Netherlands, municipalities have a high degree of influence over their territory through spatial planning. In many cases, they also play an important role in initiating and coordinating spatial planning projects, such as newly built residential areas. The outcome is depending on the rules that institutions have set out to the implementation of renewable energy sources in newly built residential areas and the way how these rules affect decisions at the local level. Newly built residential areas provide the possibility to build a new area “from scratch”. This makes it possible to implement renewable energy sources as a part of the newly built residential area, and contribute to achieve targets that internationally have been set out. In this respect, the following research question has been set out: How is the current institutional framework for spatial planning supporting or hindering the implementation of renewable energy sources in new built residential areas in The Netherlands?
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen