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ments, standard I 2 (Urban scale 2) focuses on monitoring sun exposure, because if this
is not duly taken into consideration it can concur in causing UHI phenomena.
Implementation of the Directive 2001/42/EC on the Assessment
of the Environmental Effects of Plans and Programmes
Regional Law n. 6 of the year 2009 “Government and renewal of territory”
Regional Law n. 20 of the year 2000 “General discipline on territory protection and use”
Sustainable development is among the priorities of the EU.
At the beginning of the XXI century, the European environmental policy makers
must face hard challenges and must especially put in place the decisions of the
Amsterdam Treaty concerning the integration of environmental economical and
social politics.
In its conclusions of the Helsinki Summit in 1999, the European Council asks to
the Commission to prepare a proposal for the Sixth Environmental Action
Programme including a long term strategy to integrate sustainable development
policies from an economical, social and ecological point of view. The programme
“Environment 2010: our future, our choice” was approved in January 2004.
The sixth Programme consists of a short strategic document including the priority actions for environmental politics at European level for the next ten years, with
a special focus on the environmental problems.
Following this Programme, the Commission issued the Communication “A
Sustainable Europe for a Better World: A European Union Strategy for Sustainable
Development” (COM 2001, 264) which highlights the integration of environmental
protection in all the actions and politics within the environmental field.
According to the EU orientations, the economical objective of competitiveness,
the social objective of employment and the improvement of an effective use of
resources, must be integrated in a unitary strategy which crosses all the levels of
territorial planning, from Provinces to Regions and States. This should also involve
firms, consumers, economical institutions, fiscal and monetary authorities and the
whole society because the general consensus is necessary to support sustainable
development.
As a matter of fact, sustainable development is the only success strategy to
increase competitiveness together with employment and to develop eco-efficient
technologies, dematerialisation strategies, environmentally-friendly policies within
all economic sectors.
In Emilia-Romagna Region, the concept of sustainable development is of key
importance to evaluate and select the policies and actions to be included in the
instruments of territorial planning.
The Environmental Evaluation (VAS) was introduced by the Directive 2001/42/
CE of 27th June 2001 concerning the assessment of the environmental effects of
plans and programmes. This has been followed by the Decision 871/CE of 20th
October 2008 on the VAS Protocol.
S. Zauli Sajani et al.
ments, standard I 2 (Urban scale 2) focuses on monitoring sun exposure, because if this
is not duly taken into consideration it can concur in causing UHI phenomena.
Implementation of the Directive 2001/42/EC on the Assessment
of the Environmental Effects of Plans and Programmes
Regional Law n. 6 of the year 2009 “Government and renewal of territory”
Regional Law n. 20 of the year 2000 “General discipline on territory protection and use”
Sustainable development is among the priorities of the EU.
At the beginning of the XXI century, the European environmental policy makers
must face hard challenges and must especially put in place the decisions of the
Amsterdam Treaty concerning the integration of environmental economical and
social politics.
In its conclusions of the Helsinki Summit in 1999, the European Council asks to
the Commission to prepare a proposal for the Sixth Environmental Action
Programme including a long term strategy to integrate sustainable development
policies from an economical, social and ecological point of view. The programme
“Environment 2010: our future, our choice” was approved in January 2004.
The sixth Programme consists of a short strategic document including the priority actions for environmental politics at European level for the next ten years, with
a special focus on the environmental problems.
Following this Programme, the Commission issued the Communication “A
Sustainable Europe for a Better World: A European Union Strategy for Sustainable
Development” (COM 2001, 264) which highlights the integration of environmental
protection in all the actions and politics within the environmental field.
According to the EU orientations, the economical objective of competitiveness,
the social objective of employment and the improvement of an effective use of
resources, must be integrated in a unitary strategy which crosses all the levels of
territorial planning, from Provinces to Regions and States. This should also involve
firms, consumers, economical institutions, fiscal and monetary authorities and the
whole society because the general consensus is necessary to support sustainable
development.
As a matter of fact, sustainable development is the only success strategy to
increase competitiveness together with employment and to develop eco-efficient
technologies, dematerialisation strategies, environmentally-friendly policies within
all economic sectors.
In Emilia-Romagna Region, the concept of sustainable development is of key
importance to evaluate and select the policies and actions to be included in the
instruments of territorial planning.
The Environmental Evaluation (VAS) was introduced by the Directive 2001/42/
CE of 27th June 2001 concerning the assessment of the environmental effects of
plans and programmes. This has been followed by the Decision 871/CE of 20th
October 2008 on the VAS Protocol.
S. Zauli Sajani et al.