Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murgante, Beniamino (Editor), Borruso, Giuseppe (Editor), Lapucci, Alessandra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 348
• Subjects: Engineering.; Earth sciences.; Artificial intelligence.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Environmental sciences.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Earth Sciences, general.

The experience developed by Ian McHarg represents the first attempt to base environmental planning on more objective methods. In particular, he supposed that the real world can be considered as a layer cake and each layer represents a sectoral analysis. This metaphor represents the fundamental of ov...