Legislative Environmental Requirements in Landscape Planning in Ukraine

Abstract

The purpose of this publication is to highlight the role of landscape planning as a tool for implementing legislative environmental requirements, which should contribute to the achievement of the goals of balanced development of Ukrainian communities. The author analyzes the legislative requirements and criteria for assessing landscapes and its components that are relevant to the goals of landscape planning in the framework of the development of Comprehensive Plans for the Spatial Development of Communities. Such environmental requirements should be applied at the stages of landscape and its components assessment, conflict analysis, development of environmental goals and justification of measures. The article presents the experience of taking into account legislative environmental requirements in landscape plans that were created as part of the Comprehensive Spatial Development Plans of Druzhkivka city and Ocheretyne village communities in Donetsk Oblast. The examples demonstrate the implementation of legislative environmental requirements at the stages of landscape assessment, conflict analysis, and development of a landscape plan with environmental goals and measures. Examples of integrating landscape plan recommendations into project decision-making are presented.