Strategic urban and territorial planning typically suggests general lines, directions and strategic objectives for spatial, social and economical development of a city or a region with 15–20 years horizon. It also proposes an interrelated set of actions and projects which need to be undertaken and implemented in order to reach these strategic objectives. However, it is frequently unclear how an...

The paper shows the contribution that two different multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) methods could provide in the field of strategic decisions and urban and territorial planning. In particular, the analytic network process and the dominance-based rough set approach have been considered and discussed in the work with reference to their role in supporting such decision-making processes, t...

The increasing importance of environmental studies brings even biology to a change in the scientific paradigm. That means a passage from reductionism to a systemic approach and shows the limits of many branches of biology, mainly genetics, ecology and medicine. New disciplines arose to upgrade these limits, as Epigenetics, Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immunology and recently Bionomics. The discipline...

Landscape protection that, in the past, has been mainly concerned with its historical, artistic and cultural heritage, follows, nowadays, a systemic methodology that looks at landscape as a high level aggregate of spatial, ecologically different units that interact each other by exchanging energy and materials. Strategic environmental assessment, nowadays, has been adopted in Europe in landscap...

providing appropriate rural housing in the country is a critical and ever- increasing demand. solving current problems, in the rural housing prospects of the country requires essential research and planning. the first step in any type of planning towards improving or rehabilitation of rural housing conditions in iran demands comprehensive and macro level information and an overall correct class...