Guidelines for landscape and visual impact assessment / / Landscape Institute and Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 712
• Soggetto topico: Landscape assessment; Landscape protection; Environmental impact analysis
• Classificazione: ARC010000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Introduction, scope and context; 1 Introduction; About this guidance; When is LVIA carried out?; Impacts, effects and significance; Who is this guidance for?; Organisation and structure of the guidance; 2 Definitions, scope and context; What does landscape mean?; The importance of landscape; Landscape change and sustainable development; The role of LVIA; Professional judgement in LVIA; Part 2 Principles, processes and presentation; 3 Principles and overview of processes; Introduction ; Components of the LVIA process in relation to EIASite selection and consideration of alternatives; Screening; Scoping; Project description/specification; Baseline studies; Identification and description of effects; Assessing the significance of effects; Mitigation; Engaging with stakeholders and the public; 4 The proposed development, design and mitigation; Understanding the proposed development; LVIA and the design process; Consideration of alternatives; Describing the proposals; Stages in the project life cycle; Mitigation of landscape and visual effects; Enhancement ; Securing implementation of mitigation and enhancement measures5 Assessment of landscape effects; Scope; Establishing the landscape baseline; Predicting and describing landscape effects; Assessing the significance of landscape effects; Judging the overall significance of landscape effects; 6 Assessment of visual effects; Scope; Establishing the visual baseline; Predicting and describing visual effects; Assessing the significance of visual effects; Judging the overall significance of visual effects; 7 Assessing cumulative landscape and visual effects; Scope and definitions ; What should cumulative effects include?Types of cumulative effect; Assessing cumulative landscape effects; Assessing cumulative visual effects; Mitigating cumulative effects; 8 Presenting information on landscape and visual effects; Introduction; Structure and content of a landscape and visual impact report; Presenting information on landscape and visual effects; Review of the landscape and visual effects content of an Environmental Statement; Glossary; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "The essential guide to landscape and visual impact assessments for landscape architects from the Landscape Institute and the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Guidelines for landscape and visual impact assessment
• ISBN: 1-136-75471-7; 1-136-75464-4; 0-203-43629-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786742503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II