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Planning a Healing Garden in a Psychiatric Hospital in Hungary
This blog post was contributed by PLUS Change Ambassador Katalin Rethy and Bea Pántya, and is part of our series featuring personal accounts from our Ambassadors. These blogs offer first-hand reflections on the challenges and opportunities shaping land use planning across Europe and beyond.
Empowering Women Cheesemakers in Bosnia & Herzegovina: Protection of indigenous dairy products
This blog post was contributed by PLUS Change Ambassador Miljan Erbez and is part of our series featuring personal accounts from our Ambassadors. These blogs offer first-hand reflections on the challenges and opportunities shaping land use planning across Europe and beyond.
PLUS Change in Depth: Intervention points to unlock more just and sustainable land use decision-making
While policies set bold climate and biodiversity targets that include land use transformation, the change remains limited without effective ways to intervene in decision-making systems.
PLUS Change in Depth: Political Economies of land use change – Lessons from across Europe
In this article, we spotlight some of the insights from our recent work on political economies of land use decision-making in twelve European cases by investigating the relevant policies and actors.
Capacity Workshop: Innovative approaches to justice & participation in land use planning
On May 26th, PLUS Change hosted the first online Capacity Building Workshops. These events are designed to share the tools, frameworks, and creative methods developed through our project, empowering spatial planners, policy actors, researchers, and community advocates to apply them in their own contexts.
Interview: Why the climate crisis demands we rethink our relationship with the land
In a recent interview with Kate Williams of Alter, project coordinator Julia Leventon of CzechGlobe discussed the PLUS Change project, explaining how we chose our Practice Cases, some of the challenges of transforming our planning systems, the importance of including underrepresented voices in decision making, and much more!
Science Fair 2025: Engaging kids & students in shaping a sustainable future
On 5-7 June 2025 CzechGlobe, the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), participated in the Science Fair 2025 (Veletrh vedy), the largest popular educational science event in the Czech Republic.
Workshop 3: Île-de-France Region
As part of PLUS Change, the Île-de-France Region has spent the past two years reimagining land use planning with a stronger focus on climate, biodiversity, and quality of life. Following two earlier workshops - the first workshop initiating discussions on core land use challenges with key stakeholders and the second workshop focusing on constructing narratives of land use change - the third workshop was held in February 2025.
Roma Women, Land, & Environmental Injustice: Reclaiming Agency in Toxic Landscapes
This blog post was contributed by PLUS Change Ambassador Marina Csikos and is part of our series featuring personal accounts from our Ambassadors. These blogs offer first-hand reflections on the challenges and opportunities shaping land use planning across Europe and beyond.
Socially just development for land use
This blog post was contributed by PLUS Change Ambassador Esmeralda Wirtz and is the first of a series of blogs featuring personal accounts from our Ambassadors. These blogs offer first-hand reflections on the challenges and opportunities shaping land use planning across Europe and beyond.
Seminar Series: The Story of PLUS Change – Conflicts and synergies in our normative futures
In the second seminar of our series, the Story of PLUS Change, the project team came together to explore why and how land use decision-making is a challenge in a changing world.
PLUS Change General Assembly in Riga
The PLUS Change project held its second General Assembly in Riga, Latvia from May 13th to 15th, 2025. Hosted by the Baltic Studies Centre (BSC), the event gathered project partners from across Europe to assess progress, strengthen collaboration and connections between work packages, and define next steps—aiming to begin shaping results and driving meaningful impact.
Open Call: Capacity Building Workshop
This three-hour capacity-building workshop aims to share PLUS Change methodologies that support equitable decision-making in land use planning. Through interactive discussions and group activities, we will explore how to embed a justice framework in land use planning, techniques for innovative community engagement, and approaches for art-based research.
Workshop 3: Drivers of Change
Prior to Workshop 3, Workshop 1 introduced the project to relevant stakeholders in the Practice Cases, initiating discussions on core land use challenges, while Workshop 2 focused on constructing narratives of land use change and tracing the historical evolution of these transformations. Building on these foundations, Workshop 3—held in December 2024 and January 2025—shifted the focus to well-being and values as key drivers of land use change, using causal loop diagrams (CLDs) to guide discussions and insights.
PLUS Change In Depth: A trip into Possible Landscapes
Have you ever thought about how we could live with our land? Not just use it, but really live with it? Possible Landscapes x PLUS Change was all about that: imagining ways to make our landscapes more sustainable, inclusive, thriving.
Successful First Multiplier Cluster Workshop
On January 16, 2025, the PLUS Change project hosted its first Multiplier Cluster (MC) workshop, bringing together stakeholders from across Europe to explore the role of Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs) in land use policy and planning.
Seminar Series: The Story of PLUS Change – Land use (decision making) challenges in a changing world
In the first seminar of our series, The Story of PLUS Change, the project team came together to share their diverse perspectives on land use challenges in a changing world.
PLUS Change In Depth: Spotlighting the role of System Maps in land use change research
Understanding and navigating land use strategies is complex considering the natural, social, economic, and political nature of the current problems at hand. The issues are further compounded by the involvement of multiple stakeholders, each bringing diverse perspectives and objectives. Additionally, aligning these strategies with local, national, and EU regulations adds another layer of intricacy to the process.
Workshop 2: Narratives of Land Use Change
Over the course of the PLUS Change project, several multi-actor, participatory workshops are planned for each Practice Case. Tailored to the unique contexts of each area, these workshops are designed to facilitate an ongoing process of transdisciplinary co-creation with stakeholders.
PLUS Change In Depth: Changes in land cover over time – what does the future hold?
Land use in Europe has been relatively stable over the past decades, but this is set to change in the future. Driven by different policies aimed at promoting sustainability across different sectors, land use in Europe could undergo rapid transformations. These policies—spanning energy production, agriculture supply, and biodiversity conservation—can impact land cover both directly and indirectly.