Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
Publisher: E & FN Spon
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780419203803
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Reference works; Environmental Science; Environmental Impact Analysis; Landscape Architecture And Design; Environmental Studies; Architecture
Description: These good practice guidelines provide advice on assessing the landscape and the visual impacts of development projects. Issues covered by the guidelines include integration of landscape and visual issues into the development process; the need for a transparent approach to landscape and visual impact assessment; describing the baseline conditions; determining the magnitude and significance of impacts; and reviewing the landscape and visual components of an EIS.

The guidelines will enable developers and decision makers to be aware of the issues to be addressed by this type of assessment as well as providing environmental consultants with a framework for good practice.