In Italian context Strategic Environmental Assessments are widespread in all planning processes and in wide scale projects since a decade. SEA became mandatory in the whole national context only since 2006 with the law D. Lgs. 152/2006, but from the first regional law (Emilia Romagna Region, 2000) a large database of practical and professional experience is available. The proliferation in the last decades of modern approaches to urban modelling and of decision support systems for SEA proposes a verification of efficiency and effectiveness of such models in professional practice. Considering that the same SEA procedure is under continuing examina-tion by European Commission, the aim of the paper is to focus on the tech-niques and procedures that can be computerized which, more than others, seem to help the whole team involved in assessment processes. This critical approach can be read as a paraphrase of Dewey’s continu-um relation between means and ends. A starting point of the analysis is the direct experience in which author was and is involved as planner and as assessor.
Technical supports for Strategic Environmental Assessment process: a critical review from practical experiences
DE LOTTO, ROBERTO
2012-01-01
Abstract
In Italian context Strategic Environmental Assessments are widespread in all planning processes and in wide scale projects since a decade. SEA became mandatory in the whole national context only since 2006 with the law D. Lgs. 152/2006, but from the first regional law (Emilia Romagna Region, 2000) a large database of practical and professional experience is available. The proliferation in the last decades of modern approaches to urban modelling and of decision support systems for SEA proposes a verification of efficiency and effectiveness of such models in professional practice. Considering that the same SEA procedure is under continuing examina-tion by European Commission, the aim of the paper is to focus on the tech-niques and procedures that can be computerized which, more than others, seem to help the whole team involved in assessment processes. This critical approach can be read as a paraphrase of Dewey’s continu-um relation between means and ends. A starting point of the analysis is the direct experience in which author was and is involved as planner and as assessor.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
