Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning

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Focusing on Strategic Environmental Assessment, this book highlights its potential to integrate landscape considerations into urban planning beyond rigid sector laws and aesthetic views. It critiques existing proposals for landscape indicators, offering systematic comparisons and guidelines for their application. After discussing the origins of the issue and the European regulatory framework, it presents two case studies and a model for evaluating urban plans' impacts on landscape, emphasizing how effective implementation can enhance sustainability in urban development.