The Role of Citizen Participation in Developing a New Energetically Efficient Quarter – Limitations and Success Factors
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Innovations and challenges of the energy transition in smart city districts. ed. / Sven Leonhardt; Tobias Nusser; Jürgen Görres; Sven Rosinger; Gerhard Stryi-Hipp; Martin Eckhard. Walter de Gruyter, 2023. p. 91 – 107.
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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 -