Landscaping for promoting biodiversity and recreation in land-based solar panel parks : a project for IKEA Industry in Poland

University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

Abstract: The world, because of the mass extinction of the natural species, will be doomed one day. Climate change and global warming are the prime suspects for the ongoing icecaps melting, sea levels rising, and biodiversity abolishment. Because of losing balance in the ecosystem, a listed ancient flora and fauna have already become extinct from this planet, and humans are the promoter for this devastating picture. But if people will realize the upcoming consequential global negative impact and start to raise the question of how can they sustain for the rest of the 21st century, most societies, industries, and business policies must have to shift towards green energy with zero carbon emission and re-establish the ecosystem. This paper is about merging biodiversity with solar panel parks, which is an initiative from IKEA Industry. Create recreation facilities so that this message can be delivered to general people and make them conscious is another promotion that we added in here. But the pressing question is: can we make this happen or not? The theory responds it is affirmative to incorporate biodiversity into solar panel parks by adding landscape parks in the surroundings. It is also possible to include local flora and fauna in the solar panel parks. In this thesis, the included design illustrations and visualizations show the possibilities of having them together. Briefly, the world needs to have as many solar panel parks as possible within 2030 to achieve sustainable development goals, and it is goal seven that tells renewable energy may perform a dual function: firstly, harness temperature or sea-level rise and secondly, reset biodiversity, consequentially.

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