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Introduction
Dirk Oudes is assistant professor landscape architecture and associate of NRGlab, a research laboratory on energy transition. Following a five-year period at different design and consultancy firms, he worked at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture as a research fellow, contributed as a teacher and wrote his PhD thesis in affiliation with Wageningen University. His PhD thesis is entitled "Landscape-inclusive energy transition: landscape as catalyst in the shift to renewable energy transition".
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Additional affiliations
September 2017 - April 2020
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
Position
- PhD Student
January 2014 - September 2017
Wing
Position
- Landscape architect
Education
September 2005 - February 2012
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Publications (16)
Over the past years, the implementation of solar energy technology in the landscape has increased significantly. Landscape quality, an objective for solar power plant (SPP) development in the Netherlands, is therein potentially compromised. In this study, we examine the discrepancies of five Dutch SPPs through post-occupancy evaluation and structur...
The need to advance energy transition has arisen from the global challenge of climate change. Shifts to renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, are crucial for reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. The use of agrivoltaics-the combination of food and renewable energy production with photovoltaic technology is gaining scien...
Climate crisis demands decarbonization of our energy supplies. The upscaling of renewable energy is accelerating around the world. Most renewable energy projects fail to realize values other than reducing greenhouse gas emissions and societal support is eroding. Many critics appropriate 'landscape' to oppose, postpone or reallocate climate action....
Energy transition has a prominent role in 21st-century urban agendas. Worldwide, cities pursue the local implementation of international, national and regional agendas aiming at a sustainable energy transition. Landscape integration, multifunctionality and community participation are three of the key concepts here. These concepts are interpreted di...
Deze position paper is een coproductie van De Natuur en Milieufederaties (NMF’s) en Wageningen University & Research (WUR). Met het document richten we ons tot de landelijke politici, beleidsmakers en bestuurders die in staat zijn energieopwekking op land naar een hoger plan te tillen – en zo de Nederlandse klimaatdoelen veilig te stellen.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a global challenge. Innovative agrivoltaic systems that combine agriculture and solar energy production is one set of the solutions to reduce these emissions. While circularity is a pressing issue in agriculture and landscape experience in solar energy production, these issues have received little attention in r...
The transition to a post-carbon future is in full swing. Across the globe, fossil fuels are giving way to renewable sources of energy, bringing energy provision closer to our homes than we were used to. The development of new energy landscapes, based on techno-economic choices, often meets with resistance. Is there a better way to bridge the growin...
Development of ground-mounted solar power plants (SPP) is no longer limited to remote and low population density areas, but arrives in urban and rural landscapes where people live, work and recreate. Societal considerations are starting to change the physical appearance of SPPs, leading to so-called multifunctional SPPs. In addition to electricity...
Progress of the energy transition and degradation of landscapes is often mentioned in the same breath. This perceived degradation stems from the changing of familiar and cherished landscapes. Wind turbines, solar fields and other energy technologies change landscapes, driven by (inter)national energy transition targets to mitigate climate change. A...
Solar power plants transform the existing landscape. This landscape change raises concerns about visual impact, land use competition and the end-of-life stage of solar power plants. Existing research stresses the need to address these concerns, arguing for a combined spatial arrangement of solar power plant and landscape: solar landscape. Solar lan...
Local governments are addressing energy transition, one of the prominent sustainability goals in the urban agendas, yet they need to enhance capacity building, therefore engagement with sustainability science and adult learning programs for civil servants are frequently activated. Landscape architects are more frequently called to be boundary spann...
The transition to renewable energy is a powerful driver for large-scale landscape transformation. Environmental design is increasingly engaged in this transition, but little is known about purposefully designed renewable energy landscapes. To improve the design of large-scale energy landscapes we reviewed the literature on three innovative large-sc...
In opdracht van de ministeries van EZ, IenM en BZK is een Ruimtelijke Verkenning Energie en Klimaat (Ruimtelijke Verkenning) uitgevoerd naar de ruimtelijke aspecten van de Energietransitie. De verkenning is uitgevoerd door een collectief van ontwerpbureaus, kennisorganisaties en een universiteit, onder begeleiding van een interdepartementaal
team v...
Climate change, depletion of fossil fuels, and economic concerns are among the main drivers of sustainable energy transition. Over the past decade, several regions with low population density have successfully transited towards renewable energy (for example Sienna, Italy). In the Netherlands and other countries, more densely populated regions have...
The transition to renewable energy (RE) is unavoidable for sustainable development. The fluctuation of oil prices, the uncertainty with regard to the stock of fossil fuels and the environmental impacts motivate this transition. Literature shows that the chance for success for transition increases when communities form Local civil society based Rene...
