Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape And Urban Planning (unipa Springer Series)
by Fabio Cutaia /
2016 / English / PDF
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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
protocols. 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 cultural and
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.
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
protocols. 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 cultural and
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.
