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Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Fabio Cutaia

    1. University of Palermo , Palermo, Italy

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  • Analyses the developments and benefits of Strategic Environmental Assessment
  • Integrates knowledge regarding “landscape state” within a structured knowledge of “environmental state”
  • Examines two European case studies regarding the implementation of Strategic Environmental Assessment
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Environmental Assessment: Development, References and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Origins of Environmental Assessment

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 3-8

    3. The Current European Normative Frame

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 9-23

    4. Similarities and Differences in the Evaluative Methods

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 25-28

    5. The Use of Landscape Indicators in Environmental Assessment

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 29-43

  3. Landscape Integration in Spatial Planning: Two European Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Veneto (Italy)

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 47-63

    3. Catalonia (Spain)

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 65-88

  4. Evaluating Planning Effects on the Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Landscape Assessment

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 91-101

    3. Past Objectives and Future Scenarios

      • Fabio Cutaia
      Pages 103-107

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 109-111
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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 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Palermo , Palermo, Italy

    Fabio Cutaia

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