About the project
Academic institutions, public authorities, and private stakeholders are collaborating to position Agder as the core offshore wind (OW) region in Norway with several coastal sites and harbours for OW installations and industry services. There is a need to understand how OW affects socio-environmental values and spatial planning, socio-economic development, and conditions for governance and integrated planning across several government levels and stakeholders. WINDREG explores the OW region of Agder and learns from exemplary international learning cases. The project questions: 1) What socio-environmental conflicts emerge, how they are mapped and how can countermapping increase recognitional justice, 2) What are key socio-economic challenges and opportunities in regional OW development and how can more challenge-oriented regional innovation systems support distributional justice, 3) What governance challenges emerge in OW regional transitions and how can municipal and regional modes of governance ensure procedural justice? And 4) How do multi-actor networks develop and define policy guidelines and governance models for energy justice in regional OW transitions.
WINDREG co-creates cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge (geography, law, planning, regional development) of an emerging new industrial venture in collaboration with a broad range of relevant stakeholders. The project develops policy recommendations for improved policy, planning and governance measures for energy justice in regional transitions.
Background
The project is coordinated by the University of Agder (UiA). Refer to the project's announcement at UiA and its main website for more information.
Sub-projects
The University of Oslo contributes to two of the project's five work packages (WP):
- WP1: Recognition-based justice in spatial planning of regional OW transition
- WP3: Procedural justice in planning and governance of regional OW transition.
Financing
WINDREG is funded by the Research Council of Norway (project nr 344258) from October 2023 to october 2027.