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| Title | Exploring Multilevel Governance Networks In Deployment Of Positive Energy Districts: Case Of Salzburg |
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| ID_Doc | 25576 |
| Authors | Cheng C.; Gohari S. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Published | Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 237 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69626-8_99 |
| Abstract | Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) represent innovative place-based strategic approaches aimed at advancing our climate goals within the built environment. PEDs are increasingly recognized as a vital component in the journey toward achieving climate neutrality and fostering smart cities. Success in deploying PEDs necessitates holistic consideration of political, social, environmental, procedural, economic, technological, and contextual factors, involving shifting constellations of stakeholders. Achieving human-centric PEDs requires a transdisciplinary collaboration and a cocreation approach, bridging gaps between the public sector, business sector, research and technology sector, and end users. Many emerging studies have recognized that the main challenge of deploying PEDs pertains to silo thinking and suboptimal governance systems. This exploratory chapter aims to delve into the governance structures and functions in the deployment of a PED project. The chapter adopts a single-case study approach focused on a Sustainable Plus Energy Neighborhood (SPEN) in the specific context of Salzburg, Austria. Our objective is to map the structure of the governance network and their interactions for knowledge and resource exchange in the deployment of PEDs. Our findings challenge the adequacy of both total rational planning and incremental planning approaches in addressing the complexities inherent in neighborhood-scale projects like GNICE SPEN in Salzburg. Our study underscores the importance of recognizing the limitations of traditional planning paradigms and advocating for more adaptive and inclusive approaches to governance. The contribution of this chapter is to refine the structural-functionalism model for empirical investigations of governance models, particularly in the context of PEDs. © The Author(s) 2025. |
| Author Keywords | Multilevel governance networks; Positive Energy Districts (PEDs); Sustainable Plus Energy Neighborhoods (SPENs) |
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