Participatory approaches in spatial planning enable involving different stakeholders in the planning process. Based on the planning theory approach of communicative planning the focus is on the discussion about options for future development. This way the need for dialogue and coordination among the different social groups such as decision-makers, stakeholders, experts and citizens is accommodated correspondingly.
Participation processes can be viewed as processes of social learning. They should enable sufficient discourse on the value level of a plan. In this way rejection or even active resistance can be avoided. For a successful implementation one especially needs the approval and active involvement of the stakeholders and the public, so that a great number of stakeholders support and actually implement the planning results. In this context we are working on developing respective methods for planning and process design.
For further information please contact Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Georg Neugebauer
Exemplary publications
Neugebauer, G. (2017): Potenziale und Restriktionen partizipativer Prozesse für kommunale Energieraumplanung – dargestellt am Beispiel Abwasserenergienutzung. Dissertation am Institut für Raumplanung, Umweltplanung und Bodenordnung an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien.
Stöglehner, G; Neugebauer, G; Löschner, L. (2014): Participatory Visioning for Landscape Development (Mühlviertler Kernland, Austria). In: Těšitel, J; Kolbmüller, B; Stöglehner, G (Eds.), Vital Landscapes - Valorisation and Sustainable Development of Cultural Landscapes using Innovative Participation and Visualisation Techniques, 134; Nebe, s.r.o., České Budějovice. 39-53.
Löschner, L., Neugebauer, G., Stöglehner, G. (2013): Perceiving rural landscapes in film and photography - experiences from a participative planning approach in the upper Austrian leader region Mühlviertler Kernland. Geomatics, Landmanagement and Landscape, 2, 65-74.
Löschner, L., Neugebauer, G., Stöglehner, G. (2013): Landscape dialogues - discussing landscape issues with local people. Geomatics, Landmanagement and Landscape, 1, 63-72.