Abstract
Sustainable land use needs a manageable nexus of knowledge from planning practice, policy makers, the private economy, and civic society, as well as from scientific research. This is mutually dependent on the communicative and collaborative turn in spatial planning as well as by transdisciplinary research approaches. This paper offers an approach how to organise knowledge management and co-production of knowledge in the context of complex land use decisions. Therefore, a prototype of an internet-based knowledge platform is introduced based on a theoretical reflection of concepts for integrated information and knowledge management, as well as on practical experiences derived from a German case study. We conclude that sustainable land use requires Planning Support Systems (PSS) that combine transdisciplinary perspectives in order to co-produce robust knowledge. This also implies a transdisciplinary design of PSS. Challenges of implementation are discussed and further research is specified.
Highlights
Spatial planning is integrative and interdisciplinary in nature (Salet, 2014)
According to this complex environment for planning processes, spatial planning has to develop strategies dealing with high levels of uncertainty, disagreement, and distributed capacities (Hummelbrunner and Jones, 2013, p.2)
The usefulness of Planning Support Systems (PSS) is given by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of planning processes and planning outcomes
Summary
Spatial planning is integrative and interdisciplinary in nature (Salet, 2014). new land use drivers like climate change, the renewable energy supply, international interdependencies of resource markets, and demographic changes increase the complexity of handling the manifold demands on land (Müller and Munroe, 2014). Spatial planning should respect functional perspectives of spatial development (Healey, 2004; Allmendinger et al, 2015) and evaluate impacts on and of land use (Faludi, 2000; Davoudi, 2006) It has to organise transdisciplinary processes, including different academic, and professional domains as well as civil society (Wickson, Carew, and Russell, 2006; Lang et al, 2012; Zscheischler, Rogga, and Weith, 2014). Handling land use and land resources in a sustainable way will only be possible if all actors develop awareness for the problems involved, but are prepared to generate, share, and put knowledge into practice (Cash et al, 2003; Campbell, 2012) This complexity – seen as a window of opportunity (de Roo and Silva, 2010) – defines new requirements in managing the different knowledge stocks. We conclude with proposals for the further development of PSS
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