Environmental planning: new discipline or an aspect of spatial planning?

Authors

  • Αλέξανδρος Δελούκας

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26266/jtovol9pp147-156

Keywords:

Environmental planning, Spatial planning

Abstract

Protection of the environment and the preservation of non-renewable resources are important priorities of our time. In the pursuit of protecting the environment, an overall scope and preventive measures should always be kept in the foreground. In the search of relevant strategies spatial planning plays a key role. However, urban and regional planning reveal severe deficits, inter alia concerning an account of environmental aspects in a conceptual sense. The term "environmental planning" defines aspects in planning which aim at a better and wider integration of biotic, abiotic and aesthetic resources into spatial planning. Special emphasis is put on methods allowing the analysis and assessment of the impact of land use on the ecosystems and on other land uses. The substantial and methodological enrichment of spatial planning concerns sectoral planning as well as urban and regional planning.

Published

1995-10-16

Issue

Section

Articles