The design of a user interface integrating instruments for visual and textual representation and image interpretation is a relevant problem when developing an advisory system for environmental planning. Indeed, the user of the system needs a support to the interpretation of maps, that is, a tool that segments maps and automatically associates geometric regions on a map with those semantic label...

Planning is a forward-looking and public-interest process, for that purpose there choice of actions to be taken. Communicative rationality highly recommended in planning related the environment. However, among factors influence environmental communication, particularly regarding biodiversity issues, ethics still rarely discussed. Various need understood by planner as communicator translating de...

©2002 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Originally appeared in Journal of Planning Education and Research 22(2002): 164–77. Used by permission. This article advocates a neopragmatic approach to collaborative planning in protected areas characterized by historical conflict among diverse stakeholders. Our example is a multisectoral process initiated to address use and development con...

There is a growing global interest in low/zero carbon buildings in response to the increased CO2 in the atmosphere, nearly half of which comes from building energy consumption. Buildings are built for a considerably longer lifespan and enhancing energy efficiency in buildings can play a significant role in reducing CO2 emissions. Energy efficiency features need to be incorporated at the earlies...

A pragmatic phenomenological approach in environmental planning Preface This thesis is the result of a year of research into the philosophical backgrounds of the design of our landscape. The main challenge was the integration of philosophical theories and ideas with concrete issues of environmental planning. My interest in both abstract theorising and concrete changes in the landscape led to a ...

The Chinese government has been working hard to improve environmental performance. However, considering that public feedback is not always complimentary, there still room for improvement in its protection work. In China, planning the dominant direction of government’s governance. Therefore, an analysis could explain policy incentives lead inconsistent performance and satisfaction, enable us exp...

This synthesis paper is intended to provide an overview of individual and collective decisionmaking processes that might serve as a theoretical foundation for a complexity-based approach to environmental policy design and natural resource management planning. Human activities are the primary drivers of change in the Earth’s biosphere today, so efforts to shift the trajectory of social–ecologica...