Планирање простора у систему управљања животном средином

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 additional actions in order to achieve the goal which was set