Global megatrends and their implications for environmental assessment practice

Retief, François; Bond, Alan; Pope, Jenny; Morrison‐Saunders, Angus; King, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.07.002

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“…We were keen to simply see where there was consensus or not about megatrends, and how these were being reported. Retief, F., Bond, A., Pope, J., Morrison-Saunders, A., and King, N. (2016)…”

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“…Indeed, many of the sources express the belief that Technological Innovation holds the potential to answer the challenge of Resource Scarcity, possibly by transforming resource production, increasing the efficiency of supply chains and reducing resource consumption (ibid. ;EU Commission, 2018;McKinsey & Company, 2017;Retief et al, 2016). Technology is also central for the comprehensive and fast diffusion of knowledge, stimulating new business practices, increasing research, development and production, and facilitating competition for talent and migration (OECD, 2016).…”

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Global Megatrends: Mapping the forces that affect us all

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Guijt²

2020

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“…We were keen to simply see where there was consensus or not about megatrends, and how these were being reported. Retief, F., Bond, A., Pope, J., Morrison-Saunders, A., and King, N. (2016)…”

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Global Megatrends: Mapping the forces that affect us all

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Guijt²

2020

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“…This paper consequently pursues a combination of planning approaches as an apposite response in attaining multifunctional land use; especially as megatrends underscore the need for moving away from seeking a predictable single future or outcome [17]. In the contemporary planning fraternity, urban development and design enjoy great focus considering a more holistic approach to development and redevelopment, where multifunctional planning approaches are highly applicable and also serve as a condition for sustainable development [6].…”

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Considering New Urbanism, New Ruralism and Green Urbanism in Response to Multifunctionality: The Case of Verkykerskop, South Africa

Viviers

Cornelius

Cilliers

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Paul Davidoff charged planners in 1965, as a profession making urban life more beautiful, exciting, creative and more just, as having little to say. The task thereupon was to train a generation of planners to go well beyond the designers of the sixties in their ability to prescribe future urban life. Nijkamp, in 1980, affirms the utopians' claim that the future is open and flexible, and that every development in the community, could imply a surprising step towards something better. A half century since Davidoff's indications, planners encounter ever expanding planning approaches, "towards something better", ranging from compact cities, transit oriented developments, new urbanism, new ruralism, shared cities, to smart growth and, of late, green urbanism and eco-cities; all in response to multifunctionality. Although the concept of multifunctionality has gained increasing attention the last decade, there is much frustration amongst planners regarding a proper set of broadly based definitions and clear statements concerning its scientific points of departure. This research argues that a combination of planning approaches are a more suitable response in attaining multifunctional land use; especially as megatrends underscore the need for moving away from seeking a predictable single future or outcome. The uniqueness of the Southern African landscape, inherently being rural, necessitated a rural accentuation on multifunctionality. Applying theory-based sampling as part of qualitative inquiry into the recently planned rural village of Verkykerskop, acclaimed by the Charter for New Urbanism in 2012, it is questioned whether the reciprocal employment of planning approaches induced multifunctional rural land use. Offering a design philosophy, whereby "farming, playing and living" is attained through the combined appliance of new urbanism, rural urbanism and green urbanism in planning the rural village, conclusions are drawn relating to the conduciveness of these approaches in achieving multifunctional rural land use. Keywords: multifunctionality, multifunctional land use, multifunctional rural land use, new urbanism, new ruralism and green urbanism.

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“…a building) with respect to predefined principles. Environmental assessment processes may have different purposes and therefore different outcomes, depending also from the challenges of our society (Retief et al, 2016). This approach can be used to approve or reject plans significantly affecting territories and communities (as in the case of the Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA, from the DIR 85/337/CEE to the DIR 2014/52/UE).…”

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Environmental Assessment Tools: Toward an Interlinked Sustainable Design of Cities and Buildings. The Cases of Vado Ligure and Altare Municipalities (Italy)

Magliocco

Perini

Piccardo

2017

EMSD

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The present paper aims at highlighting the connections between the environmental assessment of urban planning and building design activities at different scales. Environmental assessment is a multi-scale and inter/trans disciplinary process, which considers the city through an ecological approach. Environmental assessment includes different tools depending on the planning and design phase, with links and overlaps but also with contradictions. Four different evaluation fields are discussed -land use, water management, local resources, energy -also concerning the case of two Environmental Reports for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) processes of municipal urban plans for two Italian municipalities, Vado Ligure and Altare. The analysis of case studies shows that SEA is not always an effective tool for strategic urban planning, as it includes similar assessment criteria to building scale ones, causing overlaps and contradictions.

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Global megatrends and their implications for environmental assessment practice

Abstract: Abstract:This paper addresses the future of environmental assessment (EA)

Cited by 132 publications

References 53 publications

Global Megatrends: Mapping the forces that affect us all

Global Megatrends: Mapping the forces that affect us all

Considering New Urbanism, New Ruralism and Green Urbanism in Response to Multifunctionality: The Case of Verkykerskop, South Africa

Environmental Assessment Tools: Toward an Interlinked Sustainable Design of Cities and Buildings. The Cases of Vado Ligure and Altare Municipalities (Italy)

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