Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Helming, Katharina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pérez-Soba, Marta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Tabbush, Paul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Θέματα: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Physical geography.; Agriculture.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Ecotoxicology.; Nature conservation.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Nature Conservation.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Physical Geography.

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• List of Authors
• List of Authors
• Sustainability Impact Assessment: concepts and approaches
• Ex-ante Impact Assessments (IA) in the European Commission — an overview
• Impact Assessment in the European Commission in relation to Multifunctional Land Use
• An institutional analysis of land use modelling in the European Commission
• Ex ante impact assessment of land use changes in European regions — the SENSOR approach
• Transfer into decision support: The Sustainability Impact Assessment Tool (SIAT)
• Scenario modelling of land use changes
• Scenarios: Driving forces and policies
• Cross sector land use modelling framework
• Tourism geography in Europe
• Landscape level simulation of land use change
• Spatial representation and data issues for European regions
• Regional socio-economic profiles for assessment of European land use related policies: the SENSOR experience
• A Spatial Regional Reference Framework for Sustainability Assessment in Europe
• Requirements for data management and maintenance to support regional land use research
• European level indicator framework
• An indicator framework for analysing sustainability impacts of land use change
• Indicators for assessing the environmental impacts of land use change across Europe
• Reflections on Social and Economic Indicators for Land Use Change
• Weighting and aggregation of indicators for sustainability impact assessment in the SENSOR context
• Regional and local evaluation
• Land use functions — a multifunctionality approach to assess the impact of land use changes on land use sustainability
• Limits and targets for a regional sustainability assessment: an interdisciplinary exploration of the threshold concept
• Sustainability Impact Assessments: limits, thresholds and the Sustainability Choice Space
• Key sustainability issues in European sensitive areas — a participatory approach
• Key sustainability issues and the spatial classification of sensitive regions in Europe.