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The integrated landscape approach for renewable energy planning: a spatial framework through the energyshed and landscape transect
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The rapid expansion of renewable energy infrastructures—including solar, wind, storage, and transmission networks—is reshaping landscapes worldwide. While essential for decarbonization, their growing spatial footprints intensify conflicts over land use, biodiversity, and place-based values, signaling that energy development is fundamentally a landscape challenge. This perspective proposes a spatial framework for renewable energy planning grounded in the Integrated Landscape Approach (ILA) and structured through the landscape transect and energyshed. Drawing on literature in Landscape Sustainability Science, ILA, energy landscapes, and landscape planning and design, the paper examines how five ILA principles—multifunctionality, transdisciplinarity, stakeholder participation, complexity, and sustainability—can inform renewable energy planning and evaluation. The landscape transect differentiates renewable energy opportunities and constraints across urban, suburban, rural, and coastal landscapes, while the energyshed situates these places within broader systems of energy production, transmission, and consumption. They link place-based design with regional energy dynamics and support spatially explicit scenario- development, integrating ecosystem services, cultural landscapes, and participatory visualization. Applying ILA to spatial planning redefines renewable energy systems as multifunctional landscapes. This perspective positions ecologists, planners, designers, and communities as collaborative stewards of shared energy landscapes and supports transitions that are spatially grounded, socially legitimate, and ecologically resilient.
Keywords:
Renewable energy planning
Integrated landscape approach
Landscape sustainability science
Energyshed
Landscape transect
Multifunctional landscapes
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