REPAiR

REPAiR is intended to provide local and regional authorities with an innovative, transdisciplinary open-source geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) as a tool for enhancing waste and resource management. This GDSE will be developed and implemented in living labs in six metropolitan areas in Europe: Amsterdam, Naples, Hamburg Ghent, Pecs and Lodz. 

This GDSE makes it possible to create integrated, place-based eco-innovative spatial development strategies aimed at a quantitative reduction of waste flows in the strategic interface of peri-urban areas. These strategies promote the use of waste as a resource. This supports the ongoing initiatives of the European Commission towards establishing a strong circular economy.

To achieve this, REPAiR is developing the first geodesign software that includes waste and resource flows. Using, among other things, an activity-based material flow analysis, this GDSE helps to define so-called ‘enabling contexts’. ‘Enabling contexts’ are locations or subsystems within the area of interest that are specifically suitable for developing and implementing eco-innovative solutions.

REPAiR integrates models and methods from, among other things, the environmental sciences, geographic sciences and economic sciences, with design and spatial planning methods, both on a software and process level. The integrated models and methods enable local and regional stakeholders to use the geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) within a workshop setting. This makes it possible to develop fast and reliable alternatives for spatial sustainable development strategies. 

Project partners

Delft University of Technology (TUD), NL [Lead]
Ghent University (UG), BE
DiARC UNINA - University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), I
HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU), D
Institute for Regional Studies, CERS of HAS, MTA KRTK  ( RKI), H
Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences (IGiPZ), PL
Joint Research Centre (JRC), E 
Geo-Col GIS and Collaborative Planning (Geo-Col), NL
Delta Development Group (DELTA), NL
BIOKOM Nonprofit Ltd (BIOKOM), H
Gertz Gutsche Rümenapp Stadtentwicklung und Mobilität  (GGR), D
OVAM - Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM), BE
Municipality of Haarlemmermeer (GHM), NL
Campania Regional Authority (CRA), I
Pheno horizon (PHH), PL
Bauer Umwelt GmbH (BMU), D/I
IVAGO (IVAGO), BE
Stadtreinigung Hamburg (SRH), D

Further information

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