Abstract
The function of this type of indicators is to evaluate the “territorial condition s” of territorial use and process es, and the related landscape transformations. Territorial indicators are also used to provide guidelines for strategies and programmes for protection , management, and innovation, and their participation processes. They are useful for monitoring territorial and landscape condition s, estimating the impact of policies and territorial actions on the landscape, and guiding the actions of territorial and landscape planning . The following indicators are analysed: land use capacity , landscape capacity to support transformations, degraded landscapes and landscapes under pressure, protected natural areas, rural areas, protected landscape, ecological and landscape network s, actions of valorisation , effectiveness of the planning aims for the landscape, and sensibility of the planning aims for the landscape.
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See: European Commission (1996) The Cork Declaration. The European Conference on rural development; European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (CE Regulation n. 1257/1999); European Commission, Directorate-General for agriculture (2003) Reform of the common agricultural policy a long-term perspective for sustainable agriculture. Impact analysis; EC, DG VI (2000) State of application of regulation (EEC) No 2078/92: evaluation of agri-environment programmes. Working paper.
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Elements associated with the non-energetic use of surface waters in the cases in which the maximum outlet capacity exceeds 1,000 l/s, dams and other plants for containing, regulating or accumulating water on the long-term, for non-energetic purposes, with a height of over 10 m and/or a capacity of over 100,000 m³, water purification plants with a potential of over 100,000 equivalent inhabitants.
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In particular: activities connecting to the water table, tunnels for the exploration of underground quarries for the extraction of industrial materials, excavations used to obtain material for public works, quarries in fluvial zones A and B of Plans regulating the more urgent aspects of the Po Basin Project, quarries extracting over 500,000 m³/year of material or with an operating area of over 20 ha.
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http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/dataset.jsp?mode=view&ds_idf=CDDA, updated to 2007.
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http://www.WDPA.org, updated to 2007.
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Voghera, A. (2011). Land Use Indicators for Landscape Assessment. In: Cassatella, C., Peano, A. (eds) Landscape Indicators. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0366-7_7
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