Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning

by Fabio Cutaia

Overview

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 aesthetic concept of landscape. In pursuit of this goal, various scholars have previously attempted to construct arrays of indicators relating to the different conceptions of “landscape”. This book critically examines the most complete proposals of this nature, systematizing and comparing them and, finally, offering some guidelines with respect to their codification within specific application prools. After opening chapters exploring the origins of the problem and analysing the European normative frame for Strategic Environmental Assessment, two case studies are described and discussed. A model is then presented for the evaluation of the effects of urban plans on landscape, including in culturaland perceptual terms. The author demonstrates that, when suitably employed, Strategic Environmental Assessment can indeed facilitate the integration of environmental, economic, and social sustainability into urban planning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319825069
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2018
Series:	UNIPA Springer Series
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Pages:	111
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

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.