Београд : Институт за архитектуру и урбанизам Србије
Abstract
The monograph covers the issue of environmental management, which is analysed through five
chapters that encompass inevitable themes related to the system of environmental management
within spatial and urban planning context. Certain elements of the environmental management
system have been analysed with critical view and with recommendations for the problem
solving. In such context, the special emphasis is given to analysing the information base
condition, as well as to indicators and criteria, which are the fundamental elements for
identification and evaluation of the environmental conditions. Environmental management,
which is also implemented through spatial planning, where the goal is to provide environmental
quality, mainly depends on the state policy for environmental protection. Yet, it is shown that
despite the strategic decisions being taken, an integral approach towards environmental
protection has been substantiated slowly, and sometimes the protection is not efficient enough.
Excessive pollution of air, water, and soil is not acceptable, and it jointly puts a threat to the
survival of forests, vulnerable ecosystems, biodiversity, etc. This condition derived from the
overall economic development in the past, which was founded on the conflict between
environmental policy interest and development interest. The monograph especially focuses at
the analysis of the elements for implementing the environmental management policy:
legislation (SEA and EIA), institutional organisation, economic interests, and most of all - the
spatial planning. With evaluation of the complexity in present attitude towards the
environmental protection in Serbia and in the spatial and urban planning, it has been
substantiated that we are in the initial phase of environmental management, despite the fact that
the first steps towards institutionalisation of this policy have been made. A declared integral
approach towards environmental protection does not exist yet, because it seems that it has not
been understood that integration of ecological aspects in the process of spatial and urban
planning presumes incorporation of the environmental protection requirements into sectoral
policies instead of making a new separate policy. The present models of spatial and urban
planning mainly involve the environmental protection as the special segment of planning, and
this, from the sustainable development viewpoint, cannot give the complete results. Beside that,
it is necessary to make better connections of environmental management within spatial planning
and management of certain environmental elements, through integration of the subsystem
solutions into integral planning solutions according to the principle of applying the model of
management which allows the continual process of environmental quality management. The
advantage of the proposed model is in its potential to recognise the unexpected impacts on the
system, which are registered according to the indicators, upon which it is possible to make
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