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Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes

There are many reasons why strategic intelligence is required to support policy decisions. These primarily stem from the nature of today's kno- edge society with two contrasting trends. On the one hand, there is a trend of increasing human intelligence in the economic, social and political s- t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Helming, Katharina (Editor ), Pérez-Soba, Marta (Editor ), Tabbush, Paul (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
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  • List of Authors
  • List of Authors
  • Sustainability Impact Assessment: concepts and approaches
  • Ex-ante Impact Assessments (IA) in the European Commission - an overview
  • Impact Assessment in the European Commission in relation to Multifunctional Land Use
  • An institutional analysis of land use modelling in the European Commission
  • Ex ante impact assessment of land use changes in European regions - the SENSOR approach
  • Transfer into decision support: The Sustainability Impact Assessment Tool (SIAT)
  • Scenario modelling of land use changes
  • Scenarios: Driving forces and policies
  • Cross sector land use modelling framework
  • Tourism geography in Europe
  • Landscape level simulation of land use change
  • Spatial representation and data issues for European regions
  • Regional socio-economic profiles for assessment of European land use related policies: the SENSOR experience
  • A Spatial Regional Reference Framework for Sustainability Assessment in Europe
  • Requirements for data management and maintenance to support regional land use research
  • European level indicator framework
  • An indicator framework for analysing sustainability impacts of land use change
  • Indicators for assessing the environmental impacts of land use change across Europe
  • Reflections on Social and Economic Indicators for Land Use Change
  • Weighting and aggregation of indicators for sustainability impact assessment in the SENSOR context
  • Regional and local evaluation
  • Land use functions - a multifunctionality approach to assess the impact of land use changes on land use sustainability
  • Limits and targets for a regional sustainability assessment: an interdisciplinary exploration of the threshold concept
  • Sustainability Impact Assessments: limits, thresholds and the Sustainability Choice Space
  • Key sustainability issues in European sensitive areas - a participatory approach
  • Key sustainability issues and the spatial classification of sensitive regions in Europe.