The objective of water management planning is to maximise the availability of regional water resources to meet the usage requirements of individuals and of society as a whole and to provide effective sewage treatment, flood protection, and groundwater management.
On January 23, 2024, an exchange on the topic of "Sustainable Energy Production" took place at the ARL Headquarters with delegates from El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Honduras.
People all over Germany have made it clear in recent days that democracy, human dignity and rule of law are unshakeable values in our society. Civil society is showing that our democracy is alive and able to defend itself.
Planning can be thought of as the mental process of anticipating future actions. When things go wrong in the planning process, that is referred to as a planning error.
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) is committed to educating and supporting editors, publishers, universities, research institutes, and all those involved in publication ethics. COPE aims to move the culture of publishing towards one where ethical practices become a normal part of the culture itself.
The ARL international working group „German Land Policy Revisited – Reflections and Lessons from Abroad” (short: LAND POLICIES IN EUROPE) has published a special issue in “Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning” (RuR).
Studying planning culture contributes to a deeper understanding of planning practice by identifying the ways planners and
planning institutions think and act on the basis of typical (societal) orientations and the associated value systems.
In the future, ensuring the availability of groundwater in an adequate quality and quantity will become increasingly challenging. Protecting groundwater involves taking appropriate measures to ensure that aquifers are recharged and that groundwater pollution is prevented.
On November 24th, 2023, the international Information and Initiative Group “Gender and Spatial Transformation” conducted their second online workshop to explore key concepts in the field of gender and spatial transformation.
On 27 and 28 November 2023, AlpPlan and the Interreg Alpine Space project PlanToConnect jointly hosted the hybrid workshop “Ecological connectivity and spatial planning: From concepts to implementation”.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Video Challenge who displayed creativity, vitality and good communication skills to explain the significance of their built environment research: "Addressing Grand Challenges.
Guiding principles for urban planning establish an overarching orientation for urban structural development, which orients the work of most urban planners over a certain time period, as well as a local authority’s coordinated set of urban development objectives.
The second in-person meeting of the ARL international working group Urban Planning for Health Equity took place in Vienna from 9th – 10th October 2023 at Technische Universität Wien.
