Aims and ScopeGrowing social and economic needs exert major pressures on landscapes
challenging preserved landscape values and the regional significance of places. As a result
the scope oflandscape management has broadened and diversifiedin response to international
calls for greater landscape protection and to existing and new challenges such as
thoserelating to climate change adaptation and ecosystem services. Within this context
landscape impact assessment and more in general landscape planning have been regarded as
effective mechanisms for promoting and at the same time as the basis of sustainable landscape
development. Set within the European context thisbookaims to provide acontemporary review of
landscape impact assessment theory and practice looking at both the project and planning
level. It coversthe overall process content and scope of landscape impact assessment
including the main principles for good practice. Thisbook also provides guidance on a rangeof
methods and techniques for different aspects of landscape impact assessment and public
participation needs and explains the advantages of close co-ordination between landscape
impact assessment and landscape planning especially in land use planning. Finally a selection
of case studies reviewing different aspects and practices of landscape impact assessment are
reviewed.This book will be of interest to professionals involved in the day-to-day application
of landscape impact assessment as well as scholars and teachers working in the broad area of
landscape planning andmanagement. The authors of thisbook have vast experiencein the research
and practice of environmental assessment and landscape management.
