Authors
Oliver Dilly, Marguerite Camilleri, Carola Dörrie, Saviour Formosa, Gabrielle Galea, Dionys Hallenbarter, Hubert Hasenauer, Zuzana Imrichová, Renata Korzeniowska-Pucułek, Monika Kowalik, Piotr Koza, Norbert Kräuchi, Ain Kull, Artur Łopatka, Ülo Mander, Stefano Moncada, Tonu Oja, Rafal Pudełko, Friedrich Putzhuber, Christian Rogaß, Bernd Uwe Schneider, Gregorz Siebielec, Tomasz Stuczyński, Reinhard F Hüttl
Publication date
2008
Journal
Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes
Pages
471-494
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
Cross-cutting environmental, social and economic changes may have harsh impacts on sensitive regions. To address sustainability issues by governmental policy measures properly, the geographical delineation of sensitive regions is essential. With reference to the European impact assessment guidelines from 2005, sensitive regions were identified by using environmental, social and economic data and by applying cluster analysis, United Nation Environmental Policy priorities and expert knowledge. On a regionalised ‘Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics’ (NUTS) level and for pre-defined sensitive region types (post-industrial zones, mountains, coasts and islands) 31 % of the European area was identified as sensitive. However, the delineation mainly referred to social and economic issues since the regional data bases on environmental indicators are limited and do not allow the separation of …
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