By Tom Turner
Written for use in undergraduate and postgraduate making plans classes and for these desirous about all features of the making plans strategy, this complete textbook specializes in environmental effect overview and layout and particularly their influence on making plans for the panorama.
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There is also a set of rules for his development at Poundberry outside Dorchester in Dorset. Rural authorities can also adopt plans to protect and enhance special types of landscape quality, including wilderness and tranquillity (Rendel 1997). Where special area policies have not been approved, planning authorities should require designers to submit details of the planned relationship between new structures and their surroundings. The discipline of considering sideeffects leads naturally to more sensitive design proposals.
When external effects influence the environment, they are known as environmental impacts (Fig. 5). A report on the environmental consequences of a development project is known as an environmental impact statement (EIS). The idea was introduced to America by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and to Europe by the EC Directive 85/ 337 (Commission of the European Communities, 1985). A distinction can be made between two sub-categories of environmental impact. Landscape impacts “are changes to the fabric, character and quality of the landscape as a result of development”.
Metaphorically, they will lie below the seabed and above the waves. Health can be partially defined by quantifiable measures: temperature, pulse rate, cholesterol levels, physical strength and so forth. But these are seabed measures and they are not the only ones. Spiritual, social and mental states also contribute to good health and to a good environment. In many countries the environmental impact assessment system is separate from the planning system. GIS has the technical capability to integrate the two systems.