TY - CHAP

T1 - The Role of Citizen Participation in Developing a New Energetically Efficient Quarter – Limitations and Success Factors

AU - Wesselow, Maren

AU - Grothmann, Torsten

AU - Siebenhüner, Bernd

AU - Scheele, Ulrich

AU - Schäfer, Ernst

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Sven Leonhardt, Tobias Nusser, Jürgen Görres, Sven Rosinger, Gerhard Stryi-Hipp and Martin Eckhard, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.

PY - 2023/12/31

Y1 - 2023/12/31

N2 - Citizen participation is vital in the design and implementation of new technologies. In the ENaQ project, a long-term participatory process is applied to accompany the development of a new energetically efficient residential quarter in the city of Oldenburg. This chapter shows how different participatory formats were used to involve the public at different stages of the project. We shed light on limitations to citizen participation in the context of technological developments in the housing sector including the fact that future residents are not known, the highly technical topics, limitations set by external framework conditions, conflicting interests and contact restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. To share our learnings with similar projects, we examine how these hurdles can be overcome, and identify the following success factors supporting effective participatory processes: (1) thorough participation in an early stage, (2) the presence of planners and decision-makers at participation processes, (3) combining technological and social benefits, and (4) the institutionalisation of participation.

AB - Citizen participation is vital in the design and implementation of new technologies. In the ENaQ project, a long-term participatory process is applied to accompany the development of a new energetically efficient residential quarter in the city of Oldenburg. This chapter shows how different participatory formats were used to involve the public at different stages of the project. We shed light on limitations to citizen participation in the context of technological developments in the housing sector including the fact that future residents are not known, the highly technical topics, limitations set by external framework conditions, conflicting interests and contact restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. To share our learnings with similar projects, we examine how these hurdles can be overcome, and identify the following success factors supporting effective participatory processes: (1) thorough participation in an early stage, (2) the presence of planners and decision-makers at participation processes, (3) combining technological and social benefits, and (4) the institutionalisation of participation.

KW - Environmental planning

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85182084553&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1515/9783110777567-006

DO - 10.1515/9783110777567-006

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783110777543

SP - 91

EP - 107

BT - Innovations and challenges of the energy transition in smart city districts

A2 - Leonhardt, Sven

A2 - Nusser, Tobias

A2 - Görres, Jürgen

A2 - Rosinger, Sven

A2 - Stryi-Hipp, Gerhard

A2 - Eckhard, Martin

PB - Walter de Gruyter

ER -