Prioritizing the Future Danish Land Use
The plans and visions for the future land use in Denmark are comprehensive and prioritizations must be made. The cities are expanding, we need more roads and railroads and at the same time, agriculture and nature needs space. It has been decided that our forests are to be expanded and the rising sea levels are causing coastal erosion, making the available areas smaller. In a densely populated country such as Denmark, conflicts between conflicting interests are imminent and the rethinking of our planning is urgent.
At present, there are plans for 30% more than the land available. In an attempt to tackle this challenge, The Danish Board of Technology Foundation has launched a large 2-year-project “Prioritizing the Future Danish Land Use”, funded by THE VELUX FOUNDATION. The intent is to spark a wide public debate, increase media awareness and to avoid conflicts in future planning. This project will attempt to produce synergies and recommendations for policy makers with regard to present and future possible land use in Denmark.
Activities
The project is based on a wide selection of communicative methods and inputs such as scientific background reports, feature articles, a parliamentary future panel, contact to environmental journalists, national media, a national citizens’ summit, two TV-broadcasted parliamentary hearings and a themed magazine in cooperation with The Danish Town Planning Institute.
For further information and detail, please refer to the featured links bellow.
Contacts
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Parliamentary hearing on “Prioritizing the land use – which planning tools should be used?”
On the 27th of October, The Environment and Food Committee hosted the hearing which focused on the tools available for prioritizing different wishes for the future land use in Denmark, including tools for the municipal, national and cross-municipal levels.
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Parliamentary hearing: Multi-functionality in the Danish landscape
On April 7th 2016, parliamentary politicians from almost every political party attended the Danish Board of Technology Foundations’ hearing at Christiansborg on the future Danish land use titled “Multi-functionality in the Danish landscape”. The politicians were attentive and inquisitive as to how they should tackle the challenge of having plans for 130% of the landscape available. Politicians and experts alike referred to the results from the citizens’ summit hosted by The Danish Board of Technology Foundation in January where 250 citizens discussed this very topic.
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Citizens’ priorities of Denmark’s land use in the future
The Danish Board of Technology Foundation conducted a largescale citizens’ summit on the 23rd of January 2016 where 250 from…
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Future panel
A future panel play a significant part during the project 'Prioritizing the future Danish land use'.
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Project management and steering committee
The Danish Board of Technology Foundation is the initiator behind the project ‘Prioritizing the future Danish land use’ and responsible for developing the concept as well as the plans for conducting this project in cooperation with the Department of Planning at Aalborg University who contributed to the scientific investigations in this project.
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The background and process behind ’Prioritizing the future land use in Denmark’
The Danish Board of Technology had as its starting point the growing need for a coherent and sustainable strategy for the Danish land use. The overall responsibility of planning the use of land areas have been transferred to the municipalities and this has been greatly criticized. The critique is that this leads to random and short-term plans characterized by local considerations. This project focused on future challenges such as sustainability, biodiversity, new kinds of energy and the co-existence between nature and agriculture. However, the focus is on establishing a dialogue between stakeholders, decision makers, experts and citizens on the future land use in Denmark as well.
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Prioritization of Denmark’s land use in the future
During the conference on Denmark’s land use in the future, the final report was met with a favorable reception by the participating politicians and organizations. The politicians from the Danish Parliament and municipalities all recognized the need for reconsidering the great many wishes and plans for future utilization of areas.
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Newsletter: Major challenges ahead in National Planning
The Danish Board of Technology Foundation’s project ‘Prioritizing the future land use in Denmark’ has come to an end after two and a half years of hard work. “It is time to discuss how we turn these recommendations into a reality,” said the vice-president of the Environment and Food Committee, Lea Wermelin (S) when she opened the final conference at Christiansborg on the 3rd of May.