Search results for "Strategic environmental assessment"
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Integrated approach to the assessment of waste management systems within the SEA framework
2007
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating the environmental performances of Urban Waste Systems. Specifically, the paper refers to the crucial problem of environmentally analysing the Urban Waste System Management Process. The application of the Dashboard of Sustainability has been deliberately suggested. The method has been selected because of its intrinsic simplicity and because it can provide the simultaneous evaluation of indicators which refer to different fields, such as the Environment, Economics and Quality in Institutional Services. The method has been applied to the city of Palermo. The results obtained have been compared to a couple of ideal scenarios.
Foreword 2 in Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning
2016
Il contributo costituisce l'introduzione al volume di Fabio Cutaia, che raccoglie gli studi da lui avviati negli anni del dottorato di ricerca in pianificazione e continuati successivamente in occasione di varie esperienze di ricerca in contesti nazionali ed internazionali. Il lavoro di Fabio Cutaia, attraverso un attento esame delle questioni aperte e di casi di studio, consente di pervenire ad una prima sistematizzazione del tema della Valutazione ambientale strategica in particolare per quanto attiene il ruolo che tale valuzione può avere nel riconnettere le discipline della pianificazione urbanistica e della pianificazione del paesaggio. Il testo, sviluppando in dettaglio la questione d…
An integrated and shared approach to sea of the regional town master plan of Sicily
2006
The work addresses one of the most important problems in contemporary environmental land planning. Already existing procedures, in fact, must now conform to the new requirements imposed by the recent national and international regulations and standards that call for a more conscious approach to the use of natural resources. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), for example, takes into account, the different effects of a plan in various fields such as the environment, the economy and the development. This obviously calls for global analysis tools that could help administrators, stakeholders and technicians in the decision-making process of such complex systems. SEA of the Town Master Pla…
Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning
2016
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…
Similarities and Differences in the Evaluative Methods
2016
The awareness in the last few years surrounding the use of natural resources and landscape transformations has led to the development of several tools designed to evaluate the effects of human actions on them. The environmental evaluation methods, born in the USA, have known different disciplinary evolutions according to the following factors: firstly, regarding the object to assess; secondly, pertaining to the national juridical framework; and thirdly, relating to the progress in this field. Today we can affirm that we have, more or less, as many assessment techniques as countries. In fact, other than the Environmental Assessment Impact and Strategic Environmental Assessment, common to dif…
The Use of Landscape Indicators in Environmental Assessment
2016
A fundamental characteristic of the Strategic Environmental Assessment procedure is the use of indicator-like tools for measuring effects generated by plans and programmes that affect the environment and landscape. There are many kinds of indicator categories, but this chapter focuses attention on those related specifically to the landscape. Measuring many aspects of reality, by indicators, is easy today—but for landscape and its cultural aspects, the same fails to apply because, differently from water, air, soil and all the biotic and abiotic elements, technicians must consider variables in which the degree of subjectivity is very high. In spite of this reflection, Strategic Environmental …
Past Objectives and Future Scenarios
2016
The intimate link between landscape and urban planning has long been denied and underestimated. In spite of the “good intentions” of certain scholars, practitioners and policy makers across Italy, Spain and other EU countries, their efforts are undermined by rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and by a concept of landscape defined in purely aesthetic terms. We have established the importance of identifying tools used to integrate the various approaches that “urbanism” and landscape planning adopt in dealing with urban planning to date. In fact, even with the prospect of significant environmental legislation, the discipline is still unable to incorporate the concept of landscape and its asso…
Testing the usability of the Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) method for comparison of EIA and SEA results
2008
Abstract This study examines how the results of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) could be compared using the Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) method. There are many tools and techniques that have been developed for use in impact assessment processes, including scoping, checklists, matrices, qualitative and quantitative models, literature reviews, and decision-support systems. While impact assessment processes have become more technically complicated, it is recognized that approaches including simpler applications of available tools and techniques are also appropriate. The Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) is a tool for organizing, a…
Paesaggio e ambiente negli strumenti di pianificazione. Una possibile integrazione attraverso la Vas
2014
Considerata l’intima appartenenza del paesaggio e dell'ambiente alla disciplina di governo del territorio, purtroppo negata e passata in secondo piano nella prassi italiana, ci si è posti l’obiettivo di individuare dispositivi atti a ricondurre a unità operativa i differenti approcci con i quali la disciplina urbanistica, la pianificazione paesaggistica e la tutela ambientale hanno affrontato il tema del governo del territorio fino a oggi. Dalla ricerca condotta nell’ambito del dottorato, è stato rilevato che la procedura di Valutazione ambientale strategica, se ben costruita, può dispiegare appieno le sue reali potenzialità ed essere considerata la cerniera ‘trasversale’ che consenta l’int…
Strategic Environmental Analysis (SEA) of the building Sector: an Annotated List of Indicators and a Simple Methodology
2003
With respect to the SEA of the town planning scheme of the Sicilian region, we will analyse through the paper the most commonly adopted indicators of sustainability and we will select the most promising of them for the purpose. Moreover, a simplified approach will be introduced for the assessment of the SEA by utilising both simple and aggregate indicators: simple indicators (selected among those proposed in the literature) will lead to the “technical” assessment of the SEA, while aggregate indicators (built up by properly grouping the simple ones) will lead to the “political” assessment of the Sicilian urbanistic sector. Simple indicators will refer to official data, essentially concerning…