Nature of the Wind, the Culture of the Landscape: Toward an Energy Sustainability Project in Catalonia

Daniela Colafranceschi, Pere Sala and Fabio Manfredi
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Daniela Colafranceschi: Department DArTe, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Pere Sala: Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, 17800 Olot, Spain
Fabio Manfredi: Department Diarc, University of Naples Federico II, 80134 Naples, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-23

Abstract: Landscape and energy are an inseparable and innovative binomial because of the challenges they imply and being the factors we use to measure the quality of our habitat. Presenting the report “Wind Energy and Landscape. Guidelines for a suitable installation in Catalonia”, which involved research into the methodology for installing wind farms, this article presents a critical reflection on the possible spatial, ethical, and aesthetic effects of energy transition. Landscape design interprets the convergence of territorial values with the innovation of an energy system: it is not measured on a geographical scale, but draws from geography the sense of the overwriting of everyday places, giving them sense, orientation, meaning, and narrative. The research involves ecology, society, nature, and culture. Methodologically, the approach is reversed: rather than designing a project for the correct installation of wind power plants, the project for the wind landscape is understood as new contemporary nature. Wind energy and the culture of the landscape legitimize an advance in thought on design tools, espousing the dictates of the European Landscape Convention and more recent ambitious goals set by the UN with the 2030 Agenda .

Keywords: wind energy; landscape design; cultural sustainability; contemporary nature; social perception; Catalan energy transition policies; European Landscape Convention; 2030 Agenda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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