Purpose of the course: The course aims to provide the conceptual tools for the analysis and spatial assessment and understanding of the planning system within which they are located; also it intends to develop the ability to solve problems inherent spatial analysis in GIS and to address a territorial assessment procedure.

1. General Concepts
The land system and land formation process. The components of the land system. The rural territory: definition, properties, functions. Methods to classify the territory in degrees of rurality.
Framing the problem: planning the countryside. Evolution of the planning of the agricultural landscape from classical thought to sustainable planning. Multifunctionality of rural areas. The European Landscape Convention (2000): new definition and a new strategy for the landscape. The active part of the population and the notion of the character of the landscape.

2. General Planning Concepts
Purposes and principles of spatial planning. The forms of planning: local, urban, industry, strategic, environmental. Economic Planning. planning models
Birth and evolution of environmental planning. The ecological planning model McHarg (1969): the mapping overlay, the layer cake model and the environmental suitability matrix. The Steiner ecological planning model (1991). The model of the Land-Use Planning of FAO (1993). The sustainable planning experiences of rural land dell'ISOMUL (International Study Group on Multiple Use of Land).
Participation in the planning process. Techniques and tools for citizen involvement in planning choices and for the permanent information of the community.
The planning process and the plan training.
The formation of the cognitive framework of a plan
analytical part and territorial evaluation
Acquisition and integration of spatial data in a GIS base maps, themes (with depth of use and land cover), the socio-economic statistical data, remote sensing data.
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the process of forming a plan.
Assessment conventional schemes: FAO procedure for the assessment of vocations. Attitudes of the territory (Land suitability). Operating capacity of soils (Land capability), the Vocation Agronomic General.
Methods in support of the assessment procedure: fuzzy logic and the membership functions, multi-criteria evaluation, analytic hierarchy process
3. Special Planning
The spatial plans: Provincial Regional. The general urban planning: the municipal master plan and detailed plans.
Planning in natural areas: national legislation and the Lazio region. The plan and the regulation of protected areas and parks The Natura 2000 Network and SCI management plans.
4. The structure of the Basin Plan.
5. The landscape planning.
Reference legislation
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). The "Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape" (Decree Urbani, 2002). Planning in protected natural areas. Spatial planning in Lazio (LR n. 19/2002 and subs. Mod. And additions): analysis of regional legislation to the various planning levels (regional, provincial, municipal) with specific reference to the skills of the agronomist and forest Doctor . The analysis of suitability and agropedologica relationship.

Lecture notes

Leone A., 2004. Environment and agroforestry territory. Guidelines for sustainable planning and environmental impact studies. Franco Angeli Editore, Milan, 432 pages

McHarg I.L., 1989. Designing with nature. Franco Muzzio Editore, Padua, 250 pp.

Mennella V.G.G. (edited by). Italy profile. Indicators and models for sustainable development of the territory and enhancement of the landscape. Ali & no Editrice, Perugia.

Steiner F., 2000. Building the landscape. An ecological approach to planning. McGraw
Hill.

C.R. Fichera 2007, (edited by). Multifunctionality of agriculture and sustainable development.
Technological innovation and enhancement of typicality in marginal areas. Iiriti Editore,
Reggio Calabria.

Dal Sasso P., Marinelli G., 2008 (edited by). Sustainable development in protected areas. Indicators e
models for the study and enhancement of the landscape. Claudio Grenzi Editore, Foggia.