In response to recent policy initiatives and UK and European legislation there is increasing
focus on alternative methodologies and procedures to encourage public participation in …

Systems that allow users to store and retrieve spatial data, provide for analyses of spatial
data, and offer highly detailed display of spatial data are referred to as geographic …

The agriculture sector plays a critical role in global food security and economy, but it is also
among the greatest contributors to environmental degradation and global warming through …

This paper presents a new methodology for impact assessment—SIAM (Spatial Impact
Assessment Methodology)—which is based on the assumption that the importance of …

A Smart City is the integration of technology into a strategic approach to sustainability. 21st
Century has brought with it a new global trend of “sustainable urban development” and this …

Despite the potential benefits that PSSA designation can deliver, recent practice both within
the IMO and by individual member States, has considerably undermined confidence in this …

Planning information pertaining to the potential visual impacts of proposed construction
developments is particularly important in the case of wind farm planning, given the high …

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
provide two interlinked platforms for the assessment of impacts on biodiversity caused by …

Assessing cumulative effects are a vital task for strategic environmental assessments (SEA)
but lack of consistent methodology has hampered the development and implementation of …

Building on recent advances in the counterfactual impact evaluation, the paper illustrates the
application of the area-based versions of the DID-matching and the Generalised Propensity …