Agrivoltaics, the combined use of land for agricultural and electricity production, is gaining popularity due to its multifunctional use of space. In February 2024, Kitti Biró-Varga, together with Igor Sirnik and Sven Stremke, published their research on landscape user experiences of agrivoltaics in the Energy Research & Social Science journal. The publication resulted from research conducted in the NRGlab, part of Wageningen University...

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A new peer-reviewed paper by members of the NRGlab has been published recently. The paper by Dirk Oudes and Sven Stremke is entitled Climate adaptation, urban regeneration and brownfield reclamation: a literature review on landscape quality in large-scale transformation projects and was published by the journal Landscape Research. The paper is a result of a joint research effort between the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and Wageningen...

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Recently, a new peer-reviewed paper entitled Energy landscapes in a crowded world: A first typology of origins and expressions has been published in the Energy Research and Social Science journal. The paper by Martin Pasqualetti and Sven Stremke examines the definition of energy landscapes, proposes a classification of energy landscapes and describes the key characteristics of energy landscapes that help to define an over-arching typology of...

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On the 15th and 16th of October Sven Stremke will be in Italy speaking  about sustainable energy landscapes and  infrastructures  referring to DTB project, Duurzame Transportcorridor Betuwe. On the 15th  Sven will be in Trento giving a presentation on the Betewe corridor at Doctoral program in Civil, Environmental and Mechanic Engineering and then he will join  Silvia Minichino in Florence. There Sven  will discuss the work on the Betuwe...

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This week the DTB project has reached a new milestone by publishing a report with preliminary findings and strategy. The report is published on the new website www.energiecorridor.nl. The website is the first step towards an online community. The DTB project addresses a unique challenge by combining energy transition and sustainable transport in the Betuwe region. The published report shows the vision shared by local stakeholders in this region...

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On the 10th of September, Dirk gave a lecture to bachelor students Landscape architecture and planning. The students participate in the course Theory and Methodology of Spatial Planning. In this course, one of the goals is to teach the students to make a project proposal for an external commissioner.  Dirk used the Duurzame Transportcorridor Betuwe project  as a case to show the students how you can perform a spatial research in the field of...

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