Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning

• Main Author: Cutaia, Fabio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: UNIPA Springer Series,
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Sustainable development.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Sustainable Development.

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...

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.