Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning

This book explores the opportunities offered by Strategic Environmental Assessment in the context of guaranteeing the synchronized integration of landscape (in all its aspects) within urban plans, thereby helping to overcome the constraints of rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and a purely aesthet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cutaia, Fabio
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:UNIPA Springer Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The origins of environmental assessment
  • The current European normative frame
  • Similarities and differences in the evaluative methods
  • The use of landscape indicators in environmental assessment
  • Case study: Veneto (Italy)
  • Case study: Catalonia (Spain)
  • Landscape assessment
  • Past objectives and future scenarios