Environmental Planning - Science topic

The book has been published! Who is interested in organizing a free online seminar to discuss the contents openly?

The idea is to relate the analysis with different urbanization indicators and land uses.

looking to investigate how context affect/influence the practice of SEA.

Hello everyone,

I am preparing a course syllabi for Environmental Planning, and I am trying to make a list of important topics that I should make sure I will be covering them. Also, what books/papers do your recommend to be included in the reading list. Any idea would be highly appreciated.

I am looking to research on Environmental Planning and Development. The objectives to guide my research will help as well. Thank you for your support in this regard.

I am looking to research on environmental planning and management.The objectives to study about will help as well.

Coastal management is a topic that has been much debated around the world in the last two decades, in view of the need to organize our coastal areas. In view of this context, I ask if the countries of South America present governmental programs of Coastal Management.

In details ... need to know What is a work environment plan?

What are the publications of Mario Orlandi

I am performing a site selection analysis for wastewater treatment plants, however, I need help in performing AHP to determine the criterion weights of land cover, slope, and distance to roads for overlaying it in ArcGIS. Thank you for kind response.

Dear Kai et al., nice to see the titel of your (new?) project on assessment and management of inland fishery! Is this focused on recreational fishery, or does it cover commercial inland fishery as well? As you may recall, our small Institute of Inland Fisheries in Potsdam is engaged in applied issues associated with commercial inland fishery in Germany. So I`d be very interested to receive any information concerning your Project. If helpful to you, I could provide you facts on the status of inland commercial fishery in Germany. Best wishes, Uwe

Climate change  a phenomenon being talked about world over and the contribution of human kind. As most of the populations reside in cities . What are the ethical issues the cities and citizens have to follow keeping this phenomenon in view,

Hello, I use ENVI software to classify my interested area(Bojagh national park of Iran) I use Landsat 8 image. please give me some advise about my problem. and If you can please help me practically and it's implementation in ENVI software. and one more question,at least how much DN will makes difference between features or land cover/use?

please forgive me for my mistake in English writing.

sincerely.

My current research focuses on making improvements to the policy cycle (in Australia) through the introduction of policy sustainability assessment of RE policies, prior to policy implementation. In order to determine where such an approach might be practicable across the OECD, I am trying to bring together national public policy making processes. I already have the Australian Policy Cycle (Althaus et al), New Zealand (SSC), The US (LAITS) and the UK (HM Treasury). I wonder if anyone could point me towards the policy making process (usually beginning with problem identification and ending with evaluation post implementation) within some of the other OECD nations? Your assistance is appreciated in improving my research outcomes and future applications. 

I am looking for policy cycles across the Asian, Americas and European OECD regions.

Many Thanks.

The problem is not only to highlight the relationships among disciplines, but how to build (i) a transnational common vision: 城市规划, urbanistica, urbanisme et aménagement du territoire, raum- und stadt- planung, ...; (ii) a transdisciplinary vision with the agreement on operational protocols analysis, on data (ontology and semantic data), on the implementation of spatial data infrastructures, of interdisciplinary thesaurus and glossaries, all tools necessary to allow the exchange of knowledge.

Bird trends, often expressed as aggregated indexes, are a valuable and commonly adopted tool in environmental planning (Gregory &Van Strien, 2010). Is there any study which adopted the population dynamics of one, or more, bird species as a barometer to monitor changes in the provisioning of ecosystem services by certain types of environments?

I have read several recent papers concerning ecological restoration and remediation of polluted areas but surprisingly it is often used a BCA in the average project. I understand that meaningful costs and benefits are mandatory to carry out ecological restoration or polluted areas remediation but there are problems linked to the purely economic conception of BCA methodology -such as the difficulty to evaluate social benefits or costs. In fact, I consider that it would be more convenient to use different methodologies –like SWOT analysis plus BCA - to make decisions and plan projects.

So, the points of this post are:

1) Do you believe that only BCA should be applied? What are the advantages of using only this methodology?

2) Do you think SWOT analysis along with BCA should be the methodology considered? What advantages are associated?

3) Is there another available methodological approach? Should there be a mix of methodologies to cope with the planning and maintenance issues of ecological restoration?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Jesús Díaz

I've been working on mining heritage tourism as one possible option of reuse in former mining sites in the south of Chile; I would like to know other researchers in either this specific type of reuse or others.

I am looking for a free tool to use in ArcGis or a stand alone app that will calculate measures of habitat connectivity in a fragmented landscape. The project aims to use connectivity calculations to inform optimal ecological corridor design.

A number of tools are listed on this webpage though I am not familiar with any of them: http://www.conservationcorridor.org/corridor-toolbox/

Any advice on a nice efficient tool to use would be greatly appreciated.