Abstract The construction sector is one of the main sources environmental degradation in world. Data demonstrates that commercial assets are most intensive consumers resources. Among those, largest amount buildings’ emissions comes from office building operations. Buildings’ impact on environment does not depend only energy and material consumptions; but several studies demonstrate sustainable ...

The paper deals with relationship between industrial policies and territorial environmental policies in industrial clusters, and proposes an innovative approach to the decision making. Because of the globalisation processes, the European SMEs operating in industrial clusters are showing difficulties in maintaining their market competitiveness and nourishing their capability to achieve economic ...

necessity of consideration future and delineating the characteristics of future development, leads trends to the fields of planning, rational utilization of resources and potential of areas. assessment of ecological capability, as the core of environmental studies at the prevention of possible crisis, provides an appropriate context for environmental planning. the ability of gis in managing and...

Since the publication of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), a growing body of literature has emerged related to European spatial planning. Much of this literature is focused on the influence of the ESDP on city regions and urban policy in individual member states. Much less attention has been paid thus far to the influence of the ESDP on the formulation of spatial strategies a...

ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. one element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

Ž . Environmental planning takes advantage of geographic information systems GIS to manage geographic data. GIS are, however, tools which require a great deal of training and programming expertise and, furthermore, have little support for decision makers during their planning activities. This paper presents WOrkflOw-based spatial Decision Support System Ž . WOODSS — a software developed at the ...

Resource scarcity has often been framed as a leading cause of civil strife and conflict by political scientists, sociologists, and planners alike (Lewicki, Gray, and Elliot 2002; Dobkowski and Wallimann 1998). Poverty as a result of droughts, or a general paucity of natural endowments, has frequently been correlated with a rise of belligerence in societies—environmental literature is also rife ...