Results of scientific research project „The spatial, environmental, energy and social aspects of developing settlements and climate change – mutual impacts“- facing the climate crisis, proposals and solutions in newer planning practice in Serbia

Abstract

The scientific research project entitled „The Spatial, Environmental, Energy And Social Aspects of Developing Settlements And Climate Change – Mutual Impacts“, financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia in the period from 2011 to 2019, has gathered over 60 researchers from 6 scientific research institutes and faculties in Serbia. The Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS) was a project coordinator. This paper shows the way of conducting the scientific research project and presents some of the results, but also the difficulties encountered by researchers over more than nine years of research work. In addition to the official scientific research papers published within this Project (in the international and national journals and in the international and national congress proceedings), the results obtained in this Project have also found their direct implementation in drafting the planning documents in Serbia, as well as in the development of the specific web services/platforms for supporting the process of issuing the approvals on the environmental impact assessment studies and studies in the field related to the use of the solar power potential in urban areas. Added value of this scientific and wider community is the knowledge base established within the project with all relevant scientific and research contributions realized on the Project in the form of an online database that was and still is available to project participants and the entire scientific community in Serbia and worldwide. This paper presents the successfully made projects that have had a scientific research foothold in this Project.