New publication: Alpine Spatial Planning
Alpine Spatial Planning: Spatial planning perspectives for overcoming conflicts of use in the context of the energy transition
The proceedings of the CIPRA Annual Conference 2025 summarise the participatively developed results, conclusions, and normative policy and planning recommendations on the role of Alpine spatial planning in the context of current EU requirements for nature restoration and the expansion of renewable energies.
The proceedings provide a professional overview of relevant European and national legal acts and their impact on spatial planning, practice-oriented impulses for the coordinating role of spatial planning, as well as the results and conclusions developed together with more than 160 participants from six Alpine countries on the three focus topics Green Infrastructure, Participation, and Cross-sectoral Cooperation. Based on these, and in collaboration with the AlpPlan Network of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association, normative policy and planning recommendations were developed for the energy transition in the Alpine region, the coordinating role of spatial planning, as well as specific recommendations for the implementation of the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) and the EU Nature Restoration Law.
The results presented in the proceedings of the CIPRA Annual Conference form the basis for further activities in Alpine spatial planning within the framework of the EUSALP Presidency Programme 2025, as well as inspiration for actors from the public and private sectors, political decision-makers, transnational institutions, civil society, and educational and research institutions.