Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 449192
Sist endret: 19. september 2014, 11:54

Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 449192
Sist endret: 19. september 2014, 11:54
Prosjekt

Spatial planning, vacation homes and climate change

prosjektleder

Petter Næss
ved Institutt for by- og regionplanlegging ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet

prosjekteier / koordinerende forskningsansvarlig enhet

  • Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet

Finansiering

  • TotalbudsjettNOK 3.400.000
  • Norges forskningsråd
    Prosjektkode: 235642/E10

Kontaktinformasjon

Telefon
48119740
Sted
Petter Næss

Tidsramme

Avsluttet
Start: 1. september 2014 Slutt: 31. august 2017

Beskrivelse Beskrivelse

Tittel

Spatial planning, vacation homes and climate change

Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag

The project will illuminate how spatial planning and related policy measures
can support a "climate friendly" development of vacation homes by reducing
their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions as well as increasing the
resilience of vacation home areas against climate change. Construction and
use of vacation homes is associated with building energy use, greenhouse
gas emissions from travel and land use impacts, and thus highly relevant to
both climate mitigation and adaptation. Responding to climate challengesrelating to vacation homes entails changes in planning practice to promote climate-friendly developments and use pattern of vacation homes.
Based on case studies from Norway and China, the project will identify how
recent trends in vacation home use contribute to greenhouse gas emissions
and are affected by climate change. It will then analyze planning responses
to these challenges. The analysis of planning strategies will address how
climate change is interpreted by planners and to what extent it is considered
in vacation home planning. The project will explore societal conditions
shaping vacation home use and development patterns, highlighting factors
which enable or hinder climate-friendly planning. Relationships between
characteristics of the primary dwelling and the use of vacation homes will be
investigated as a part of this.
The project brings researchers from Norway, China and Denmark together
in close collaboration. It offers an opportunity to compare between different
economic and cultural conditions and variations in planning regimes. This
will highlight differences and similarities in barriers and opportunities for
transformation in vacation home consumption and planning strategies. A key
output of the research will be recommendations to a range of relevant actors
(planning authorities, real estate developers and vacation home users and
owners) on climate mitigation and adaptation strategies related to vacation
homes.

Vitenskapelig sammendrag

Addressing all prioritized sub-themes of the research call, the overall
research question of the project is: How can spatial planning and related
policy measures promote a "climate friendly" development of vacation
homes by reducing their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions as
well as increasing the resilience of vacation home areas against climate
change? Investigating the following sub-questions, the project will improve
the international state-of-the-art knowledge on topics hitherto insufficiently
covered by research:
1 What are the climate-related impacts of vacation home consumption and
use measured against specific parameters such as construction, renovation,
heating, cooling, energy use from appliances and conversion of greenhouse
gas sequestering areas?
2 What are the transport-related climate impacts of vacation homes in
Norway used by Norwegians and foreigners as well as of Norwegians? use
of vacation homes owned abroad?
3 To what extent do climate-related rebound effects exist within different
urban spatial contexts, and to what extent does spatial planning consider
such effects?
4 How does expected climate change affect the use potentials of selected
vacation home areas, and which consequences might this in turn have in
terms of GHG emissions as a result of changing use patterns?
5 To what extent do planners of vacation home development address climate
change mitigation and adaptation, and how does the planning discourse act
as either a barrier or mediator for such concerns?
6 What recommended planning strategies for urban and vacation home
planning can be identified in order to mitigate climate impacts and adapt to a
changing climate, and which possible synergies exist between mitigation and
adaptive measures?
The project will combine qualitative and quantitative research methods, using
two mountain/inland and two coastal vacation home municipalities and an
urban context as Norwegian cases, with similar research design adapted in
China

Metode

Combination of qualitative and quantitative methods (qualitative research interviews, questionnaire surveys, fieldwork)

prosjektdeltakere

prosjektleder
Aktiv cristin-person

Petter Næss

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektleder
    ved Institutt for by- og regionplanlegging ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet

Harpa Stefansdottir

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Institutt for by- og regionplanlegging ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet

Yinmei Yao

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Zhejiang University

Jin Xue

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Aalborg Universitet
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