Spatial Planning, Vacation Homes and Climate Change, 2016

The project illuminates how spatial planning and related policy measures can support a "climate friendly" development of vacation homes by reducing their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions as well as increasing the resilience of vacation home areas against climate change. Construction and use of vacation homes is associated with building energy use, greenhouse gas emissions from travel and land use impacts, and thus highly relevant to both climate mitigation and adaptation. Responding to climate challenges relating to vacation homes entails changes in planning practice to promote climate-friendly developments and use pattern of vacation homes. Based on case studies from Norway and China, the project identifies how recent trends in vacation home use contribute to greenhouse gas emissions from mobility and housing consumption. The project also obtains an insight on how vacation home use patterns are affected by climate change. It analyzes planning responses to these challenges. The analysis of planning strategies address how climate change is interpreted by planners and to what extent it is considered in vacation home planning.

The data includes:
- Interview transcription: transcription of 18 interviews with persons who have access to vacation homes.
- Survey: A survey collected among inhabitants in 45 postal zones of Oslo region. The questionnaire asks information about people's primary dwelling (size, ownership, standard, etc.) and up to three non-primary dwellings as well as use pattern of the latter.
- 'Climate scenarios in Trysil, Oppdal and Kragerø: This document includes future climate scenarios in the three municipalities. The scenarios were developed based on a workshop organized by the project team with two local experts and one expert from meteorological institute.