Environmental assessment in territorial planning and infrastructure design

Company: Ambiente Italia srl

Tutor: Fulvio Adobati, Mario Paris

The research project moves from the recognition of the opportunity to address some critical issues found in environmental assessment practices. Specifically, based on Decreto legislativo 3 aprile 2006, n. 152- Norme in materia ambientale, two assessment procedures are referred to:

• A first field concerns the Strategic Environmental Assessment of territorial planning/programming tools, recognizing two problematic nodes with respect to the objectives attributed to the tool by the community and national law: (i) the weak identification of scenario alternatives in the structuring of plan choices; (ii) the ineffective ability of the tool to configure itself as a moment of participatory confrontation;

• The theme of experimenting with systematic and innovative approaches to the environmental impact assessment of infrastructure projects.

The candidate, starting from a set of national case studies, compared with european experiences, will explore the most effective and innovative ways of environmental assessment, in order to outline functional elements for a better effectiveness of the aforementioned procedures.