ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS AND THEMATIC MAPPING

Module BOTANICAL ASPECTS

The module aims to know the essential legislation for environmental protection and evaluation; acquire critical capacity to examine plans and projects to be evaluated; know the tools of representation and evaluation such as indexes, matrices and cartographic representations in the floristic and vegetational field.

The teaching is based on lectures supported by presentations "Power point" containing information  on the issues addressed. moreover, there will be exercises on the topics dealt with in the form of case studies  and surveys in the field with the teacher

Environmental assessment: general and the relevant legislative framework. The threatened flora and red lists. The vegetation as an indicator of the state of the environment .The species and habitats of community interest. The impact assessment: guidelines. The environmental impact assessment: guidelines. The strategic environmental assessment: guidelines. Techniques for the identification of the impacts (thematic mapping, matrices). Measures to minimize the impacts. Renaturation interventions and environmental restoration. Study Cases. The vegetation mapping in environmental assessment

1. Massimo Aleo  2012 – Valutazioni ambientali Le procedure di VAS, VIA, AIA, e VI nel governo del territorio Grafill ISBN 13 978-88-8287-464-7 

2. Valutazione di piani e progetti aventi un.incidenza significativa sui siti della rete Natura 2000 -  Guida metodologica alle disposizioni dell’articolo 6, paragrafi 3 e 4 della direttiva Habitat. 92/43/CEE – Commissione Europea (file pdf)

3. Informatore Botanico Italiano n 40 supplemento 1. Flora da conservare (pdf file fornito dal docente)

4. INTERPRETATION MANUAL OF EUROPEAN UNION HABITATS EUR 28  2013 EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG ENVIRONMENT (file pdf)

5. Blasi et al. 2010. Manuale italiano di interpretazione degli habitat (Direttiva 92/43 CEE) consultabile al link http://vnr.unipg.it/habitat/index.jsp