LIBRI DI FEDERICA ISOLA

Planning green infrastructures at the regional scale can be considered an intentional way of spreading the positive impacts of environmental conservation policies. In this volume, a methodological approach is experimentally implemented into the Sardinian region (Italy), in order to identify both a regional green infrastructure, and a network of ecological corridors connecting the regional protected areas.

The general theme of Seventh International Conference on Informatics and Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT 2012) was "Planning support tools: policy analysis, implementation and evaluation". New technologies, the main focus of the conference, play a prominent role in the innovation of planning theory and practice, as they affect every phase of the process: knowledge building, preliminary studies, design, decision, implementation, and monitoring.

La VAS porta a un radicale cambiamento nella prassi della pianificazione urbanistica, ma, come ogni radicale cambiamento, difficilmente può diventare prassi reale in breve tempo. Questa tensione al cambiamento difatti si scontra in Italia con una prassi del “fare i piani” in cui la valutazione non trova grande spazio e grande considerazione in termini di utilità ed efficacia…