Environmental Planning

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Environmental Planning
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Urban Environmental Problems

• Air quality
• Water quality (watershed protection ect.)
• Bio-diversity
• Wetlands
• Agricultual preservation
• Hazards (i.e., landslides, flooding, chemical
  spill, brownfields)

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Environmental Inventory

• First phase in environmental protection
• Soils
• Watersheds
• Land use
• Slope
• Wetlands
• Flood plains

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Air Pollution

• Point-industrial
• Non-point-vehicular pollution
• Sample strategies reduction of emmision by using
  scrubbers, vehicle inspections, buffers
  surrounding heavy industrial sites

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Surface and groundwater pollution

• Surface water pollution can affect watersheds and
  biodiversity of streams and rivers
• Watershed protection for water quality or
  biodiversity
• Leakage of chemical pollutants by present or past
  industrial development a significant problem
• Sample strategies creation of buffer areas and
  restricted land uses around watersheds, creation
  of vegitative buffers along streams, clean-up of
  groundwater surrounding browfields

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Environmental Hazards Management

• Flood Plain management
• Monitoring of hazard waste transportation and
  development of strategies for evacuation and
  clean-up
• Geological danger areas-landslide and earthquake
  prone areas (as applicable)

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Environmental Planning Process

• Monitoring and improvement of existing
  environmental pollution elements
• Evaluation of future environmnental pollution
  (e.g. Environmental impact)

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Conclusion

• The environment is a major focus in urban and
  regional planning
• One of the major sub-specialities of urban
  planning (can be further subdivided into planners
  focusing on floodplain management, watersheds and
  solid waste disposal)