Methodology
The conventional planning process is a linear progression of activities. The common steps are:
- Identification of problems and opportunities.
- Establishment of goals.
- Inventory and analysis of the biophysical environment.
- Human community inventory and analysis.
- Development of concepts and the selection of options.
- Adoption of a plan.
- Community involvement and education.
- Detailed design.
- Plan implementation.
- Plan administration.
Landscape planning not always means an ecological planning method, for that it must be considered that "planning is a process that uses the scientific and technical information for considering and reaching consensus on a range of choices. Ecology is the study of the relationship of all living things, including people, to their biological and physical environments. Ecological planning then may be defined as the use of biophysical and sociocultural information to suggest opportunities and constraints for decision making about the use of landscape." (Steiner, 1991)
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