Landscape impact assessment in planning processes

Ingrid Belčáková; Paola Gazzola; Eva Pauditšová

book: Landscape impact assessment in planning processes

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2018

Landscape impact assessment in planning processes

Ingrid Belčáková , Paola Gazzola and Eva Pauditšová

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110601558

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Aims and Scope
Growing social and economic needs exert major pressures on landscapes, challenging preserved landscape values and the regional significance of places. As a result, the scope oflandscape management has broadened and diversifiedin response to international calls for greater landscape protection, and to existing and new challenges, such as thoserelating to climate change adaptation and ecosystem services. Within this context, landscape impact assessment and more in general landscape planning have been regarded as effective mechanisms for promoting and, at the same time, as the basis of sustainable landscape development.

Set within the European context, thisbookaims to provide acontemporary review of landscape impact assessment theory and practice, looking at both the project and planning level. It coversthe overall process, content and scope of landscape impact assessment, including the main principles for good practice. Thisbook also provides guidance on a rangeof methods and techniques for different aspects of landscape impact assessment and public participation needs; and explains the advantages of close co-ordination between landscape impact assessment and landscape planning, especially in land use planning. Finally, a selection of case studies reviewing different aspects and practices of landscape impact assessment are reviewed.
This book will be of interest to professionals involved in the day-to-day application of landscape impact assessment, as well as scholars and teachers working in the broad area of landscape planning andmanagement.

The authors of thisbook have vast experiencein the research and practice of environmental assessment and landscape management.

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Ingrid Belčáková, TechnicalUniversity in Zvolen, Slovak Republic;

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	X
1 Introduction Paola Gazzola, Ingrid Belčáková and Eva Pauditšová Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Landscape Within The Framework Of Environmental Assessment At Project And Planning Levels Paola Gazzola, Ingrid Belčáková and Eva Pauditšová Open Access Download PDF	28
3 Methods And Techniques In Landscape Impact Assessment Ingrid Belčáková, Eva Pauditšová and Paola Gazzola Open Access Download PDF	77
4 Public Participation And Sustainable Landscape Management Ingrid Belčaková, Paola Gazzola and Eva Pauditšová Open Access Download PDF	112
5 Case Studies Eva Pauditšová, Peter Pauditš, Paola Gazzola and Ingrid Belčáková Open Access Download PDF	139
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	209
List of Tables Open Access Download PDF	213
List of Boxes Open Access Download PDF	215
Index Open Access Download PDF	216

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Paola Gazzola, Newcastle University, UK; Eva Pauditšová, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Pages
- Main content: 200
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
- Coloured Illustrations: 73
- Tables: 45
- Coloured Tables: 1
Keywords: landscape; impact assessment; landscape planning and management; methods and techniques; European Union

eBook

Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110601558

Hardcover

Published: December 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110601503