The Origins of Environmental Assessment

Looking back through the course of history, it is indeed possible to find many different forms of “environmental assessment” that relate to a clear, unifying philosophy: to consider the impact of such practices before they are implemented. The most import

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Fabio Cutaia

Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning

UNIPA Springer Series Editor-in-chief Carlo Amenta, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy Series editors Sebastiano Bavetta, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy Calogero Caruso, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy Gioacchino Lavanco, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy Bruno Maresca, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy Andreas Öchsner, Griffith School of Engineering, Southport Queensland, Australia Mariacristina Piva, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy Roberto Pozzi Mucelli, Policlinico G.B.Rossi, Verona, Italy Antonio Restivo, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy Norbert M. Seel, University of Freiburg, Germany, Germany Gaspare Viviani, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13175

Fabio Cutaia

Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning

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Fabio Cutaia University of Palermo Palermo Italy

ISSN 2366-7516 UNIPA Springer Series ISBN 978-3-319-42131-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42132-2

ISSN 2366-7524

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ISBN 978-3-319-42132-2

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Foreword 1

In his analysis, Cutaia believes that Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) could be correctly addressed, realised and implemented only through participative processes integrated within town planning. The recourse to participation bereft of rhetoric is necessary because its “value”, ever present at the centre of the evaluation, is an expression of judgement belonging to those directly involved in the process of transformation—in this case, the landscape. The same notion is valid for the town plan, but th