Hoorn TMM van ,
Slob AFL ,
Vermeulen WJV ,
Waals JFM van der
190 p
in Dutch
2001
Toon Nederlands
English Abstract The issue of climate change and related to that
reduction of CO2 emissions has gained a prominent place on the agenda of
environmental policymakers. The project 'From Greenhouse to Green Housing'
aimed to analyse barriers and opportunities for CO2-reduction in building
locations and to develop and test, based on this analysis, a participatory
method for the design of future urban areas with low CO2 emissions. The
first phase of the project included an overview of the state-of-the-art
knowledge about options for CO2-reduction and an empirical analysis of the
role of options for CO2-reduction in planning processes for new housing
estates. In the second phase a participatory method for the design of
future urban areas with low CO2 emissions, the CO2-reduction workshop, was
developed and tested. The workshop consists of two days with an interval of
three or four weeks between the two sessions and should be held early in the
planning process. The results show that the workshop:- stimulates awareness
about options for CO2-reduction among key actors, - gives the actors more
insight into the kinds of options available for CO2-reduction,- involves
actors who could play a role in realising options in an early phase of the
planning process, and - facilitates to make agreements about the actual
implementation of options for CO2-reduction. To disseminate the workshop
method and to bring the CO2-reduction workshop under the attention of local
governments and project managers of building locations, a manual aimed at
these actors has been written.
