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Biomass Energy Production Landscape in the Eastern Part of Croatia

Croatia is undergoing a slow transition towards a green industry addressed by an ambitious political agenda that aims to expand renewable energy production systems, more than social and technological predisposition. Plans for renewable energy production are highly sector directed (energy and economy) and focused only on the possible effect of decreasing unemployment due to weak economy and effects of economy crisis in Croatia. While there has been a remarkable quantity and even more important, continuity, in researches of public acceptance of landscape transformation in countries with mature participatory culture, the same issue in Croatia is conducted only bottom up and scattered throughout territory and time period. In the eastern part of Croatia, traditionally agricultural area, significant efforts are directed towards the expansion of biomass and biofuel power plants. Aim of this study is contribution to the pool of findings regarding public perception on landscape transformation toward planned energy landscape. The research focus was to find out the amount which factors influence people’s acceptance of the biomass power plants in the eastern Croatia. We measured the acceptance of the sites for biomass and biofuel power plants according to the scale of industry complex appearance as well as different regional landscape context conducting a photo simulation and graphic drawings survey. The questionnaire was distributed to local population, experts and investors and the results of target groups were compared. The results from statistical analysis will be presented and the possibilities for a renewable energy landscape development will be discussed.

biomass ; landscape transformation ; landscape context ; RES public acceptance

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