Renewable energy production has strongly increased in order to achieve the European Union 2020 goals. According to the European Union Green Paper 2030, the reduction of distance between production and consumption sites is a key issue for sustainability. In 2050, 80% of the world’s population will live in cities, where almost all of energy consumption will take place. Thus cities will be a focus of energy policies. The peri-urban space constitutes a high potential area around the city but has so far been ousted from planning and sustainable development. It is therefore high time to overcome the separation between “urban” and “rural” in sectorial planning, otherwise necessary changes cannot take place.
Planning of Rural-Urban Continuum Towards a Sustainable Relationship between Agricultural and Energy Production / Nastasi, Benedetto. - ELETTRONICO. - (2013), pp. 118-118. (Intervento presentato al convegno Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management 2013 tenutosi a Stuttgart-Hohenheim nel September 2013).
Planning of Rural-Urban Continuum Towards a Sustainable Relationship between Agricultural and Energy Production
NASTASI, BENEDETTO
2013
Abstract
Renewable energy production has strongly increased in order to achieve the European Union 2020 goals. According to the European Union Green Paper 2030, the reduction of distance between production and consumption sites is a key issue for sustainability. In 2050, 80% of the world’s population will live in cities, where almost all of energy consumption will take place. Thus cities will be a focus of energy policies. The peri-urban space constitutes a high potential area around the city but has so far been ousted from planning and sustainable development. It is therefore high time to overcome the separation between “urban” and “rural” in sectorial planning, otherwise necessary changes cannot take place.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
