Siting offshore energy arrays : A case study using interactive marine planning
2017
In 2010, Jack Dangermond, president of Environmental Systems Research Institute
(Esri) spoke to the TED.com conference about ‘GeoDesign’, a concept based
on a book written in the 1960s by landscape architect Ian McHarg. In this book,
‘Design with Nature’, McHarg pioneered the concept of ecological planning,
showing how scientific information, maps, and more could be combined and integrated
with the design process to make harmonious and responsible plans. The
book inspired Jack Dangermond and it was this idea that led to the creation of
the organisation Esri—the world’s most successful spatial analysis company that
builds, and enables software users to build, geographic information systems (GIS).
Yet, the president of Esri did not believe this was enough. He suggested that
we need to be able to harness everything we can measure—from ecology
and
biology to geology, hydrology, meteorology and other scientific data—and
use them to design a better world, a world that considers the character of the
environment and integrates it into what we design. While the name is new,
the concept is ancient. The role of cartography and planning in human development
has been immense (Harley and Woodward, 1987), the overall aim of
which is to infuse design with science-based and value-based information to
enable planners and stakeholders to facilitate holistic planning decisions.
Geodesign is ‘design in geographic space’ that provides the framework
for exploring issues from an interdisciplinary point of view by combining
science- and value-based designs. It is a set of technological ideas that combine
geography with design. It does this by providing tools, such as simulation
models, multi-criteria analysis, visualisation, spatial optimisation and
real-time feedback. Using a case study, we describe the use of geodesign tools
to facilitate collaborative marine planning based around a prospective tidal
energy extraction site on the west coast of Scotland.
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