For stimulating sustainable development in developing countries, land use patterns and land use changes are considered critical, and therefore effective and efficient land use …
E Medeiros - Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Impact Assessment procedures have gained increasing attention from the European Commission (EC), as fundamental tools in providing evidence of the potential impacts of …
Within the forest sector, the sustainability concept has evolved from a narrow focus on sustainable wood production to a much broader evaluation of environmental, social, and …
E Medeiros - European Planning Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the territorial impacts of the EU Cohesion Policy in Portugal, between 1990 and 2010, at the national level. To reach some conclusions, after a brief overview of …
JB Morris, V Tassone, R De Groot, M Camilleri… - Ecology and …, 2011 - JSTOR
A Framework for Participatory Impact Assessment is presented for use within European land use policy impact assessment. The context and rationale for the development of the …
A Piorr, F Ungaro, A Ciancaglini, K Happe… - environmental science & …, 2009 - Elsevier
The recent and upcoming reforms of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAPs) aim at strengthening the multifunctional role of agriculture, acknowledging the differences in …
Human activities are continuously expanding at a global scale and having an increasing effect on the remaining natural ecosystems in remote areas, such as the Magellan Region of …
Land use and land cover are important determinants of the state of the natural environment. As a result, measures of land use and land cover change have been widely used as …