Zonneveld feedback_14.11.2013

Feedback on the basis of PHD_text_23.10.2013

email comments:

1. Is it correct you have dropped your ambition to do a PhD? In this not you talk about ‘a booklet’.
2. A key assumption is that multifunctional land-use in peri-urban areas is the main key to preserve valuable landscape characteristics in these areas. You have to deliver more empirical evidence to ‘prove’ this and/or make this part of your research.
3. Multifunctionality might not be the only route to safeguard valuable characteristics of peri-urban areas. This needs some elaboration as well. It might be that due to contextual factors in Italy this is indeed the case. In other countries this might not be the case. In your empirical research you can focus on just multifunctional land-use but somewhere you have to discuss other possibilities to safeguard peri-urban areas.
4. Some forms of multifunctional land-use might threat or lower landscape qualities (like very large wind mills) or due to scale and intensity (number of wind-mills; number of tourists and facilities for tourists) have similar effects. The research should be open to that.
5. If the aim is to deliver guidance ‘to improve the development of [multifunctional] projects’ (p. 4) you have to integrate transferability in your research and conceptual model (p. 7).
6. In doing case-studies you have to be explicit about main selection criteria although there will always be the criterion of feasibility/practicality. You have to be explicit about that. In your conceptual model it seems that governance issues form the main driver for multifunctional (or the opposite: mono-functional land-use). This means that governance variables are the key to select (country) cases.

Conversation notes:

• Better clarify that the 'final booklet' is an addition to the PhD final text that will be a hand out, a synthesis report
• Might want to prepare a short hand-out for interviews
• Point 2 of email comments: want to prove this point
• Point 3 of email comments: open up to other possibilities and then explain that you won't focus on this. All this will be part of Chapter 1 of your research
• Point 4: take example of Flevoland  where there has been the installment of many wind turbines and now they realise it was in the wrong way.
• Point 4: you might also want to better explain how energy is combined
• Point 5: Transferability should be integrated into conceptual model (diagram), you have to define what are the issue that will be transferred
• Work flow: you must define Work Packages, that will be blocks that will need to be scheduled > set goals
• The final output is a book or a collection of journal papers? Check TU Vienna regulations 
• A paper could be co-authored with Zonneveld
• Main Case Studies (Rome and Vienna) and "Mirror" Case Studies, for these you might want to check the Interreg Database for projects related to Rural-Urban partnerships
• Case Studies identified on the basis of 'programs', you need to define what is a program. Could it be like in the case North of Amsterdam where there is a 'quietness' plakat so people can enjoy the landscape? This is probably an initiative of the province...
• CAP: can programs be also CAP fundings?
• Next step is to put together notes into a draft 1st chapter, taking care not to insert stuff that isn't necessary
• Another important issue now is to make sure that you are very strict in defining time that you will dedicate to the PhD research.