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Urban Environmental Management Plans:The experience of ENVIPLANS project in South EU area

Eriuccio Nora – Director Italian Local Agenda 21 AssociationEriuccio Nora – Director Italian Local Agenda 21 Association

Maria Berrini – President Ambiente ItaliaMaria Berrini – President Ambiente Italia

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The South-EU Urban ENVIPLAN biennial project started at the beginning of 2005, co-financed by the European Commission’s Environment Directorate-General. The purpose of the project is to promote development, exchange and practical realization of experiences on the preparation of urban environment Management Plans and on integrated and sustainable approaches especially in Southern Europe, anticipating, refining and spreading the message of the European Strategy on urban environment.

Partners:

ENVIPLANS project: Guidelines for the implementation of Urban Environment Management Plans

SOUTH-EU URBAN ENVIPLANS PROJECTSOUTH-EU URBAN ENVIPLANS PROJECT

Sevilla – March 22, 2007Sevilla – March 22, 2007

Eriuccio Nora – Maria BerriniEriuccio Nora – Maria Berrini


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ENVIPLANS main activities

►ENVIPLANS has promoted and coordinated the Research of Integrated Planning and management approach of urban environment in five urban areas defined Core Group and the exchange of ideas between approximately 30 cities from Italy, France and the Adriatic defined Advisory Group, helping out in identifying requisites and solutions needed in southern Europe.

► The Guidelines are the outcome of this work of exchange and partnership, developed with the participation of every administration involved in the project.

► the website www.enviplans.net, to assure accessibility to all the results.




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ENVIPLANS participating cities




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Networking ENVIPLANS wants to create a network with the organizations leading the “sister” projects Liveable Cities and MUE25 to take advantage of the outcomes reached in each program to find a way to a common European approach.

ENVIPLANS will establish a relationship of collaboration and exchange with all the projects financed by the European Union dealing with urban environment planning and thematic strategy in general.

One of these projects will be IDEMS (www.idems.it), in which the Italian Local Agenda 21 Association participate as a partner.



http://www.idems.it/



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The ProcessThe process of ENVIPLANS is articulated into:• participated elaboration of the Guidelines • testing in the 5 cities and urban area constituting the Core Group.

A set of regional Workshops (6 in Italy, 4 in France, 2 in Croatia, 1 in Albania, 1 in Montenegro and 1 in Bosnia Herzegovina) were organized involving over 200 administrators and experts from cities members of the Advisory Group.



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The Outputs

• Guidelines

• Manuals on the preaudit

• 5 Specific road maps

• Training materials

Promoting and supporting the realization of Urban Environment action/management Plans or cycles

Southern Europe Local Authorities’

Administrators and experts

The added value of this issues resides in the fact that they have been developed “in the field” via participation and approval of its end-users and based on the practical experiences from some of the most advanced local authorities in southern Europe.



Core Cities Road MapsCA Ouest-Provence/Istres: give support to the Charte pour l’Environnement (2003-2006), tackling the more critical issues for the co-operation of the CA.

Padova: improve and strengthen the activities realized during 2001-03 with the Process (and Action Plan) of PadovA21.

Firenze: wide-area A21 as an opportunity to emphasize environmental priorities within municipal (or wide area) strategies.

Cosenza/Rende: strongly stimulate a real environmental planning, by integrating LA21 with the Strategic Plan.

Rjieka: adopt and integrate the Environmental protection documents as requested by the national law and the County Strategy/Programme.

ENVIPLANS Guidelines - 10 key requirements

1. Knowing the context – identifying priorities

2. Innovate and integrate existing planning and management procedures

3. Adequacy of human and organisational resources engaged

4. Adopting a Strategic Vision – long term – concerning the wider area

5. Moving towards action – defining the executive tools

6. Clear definition of targets to achieve and indicators to monitor progress

7. Political support and legitimacy

8. Communication and participative planning

9. Widespread responsibility and implementation of the Plan

10. Monitoring progress and obstacles,continuous improvement

1 Getting started - management setting-up (pre-audit, institutional arrangement and internal organization, participatory mechanisms set-up);

2 Baseline review (setting of indicators and targets, legislative compliance, priorities identification, preliminary targets);

3 Plan contents preparation (objectives, actions, targets, correlation with other plans, operating instruments);

4 Implementation (formal adoption, partnership, responsibilities allocation, accounting, reporting and review).

ENVIPLANS Planning cycle steps

1. Introduction

2. Getting started to launch (or relaunch) the planning process

2.1 Understanding the context. ENVIPLANS’ Pre-audit method

2.2 ENVIPLANS Core Group cities Pre-audit: findings2.2.1 Other plans to be taken into

account

ENVIPLANS Guidelines Integrated and Sustainable planning

and management of the Urban Environment

ENVIPLANS Guidelines3. Considering organisational and institutional aspects for the

development of the plan

3.1 Defining what constitutes an Urban Environment Management Plan

3.1.1 The Plan’s themes3.1.2 Profile and level of details adopted by the Plan3.1.3 Local scale on which to define the Plan’s strategies3.1.4 Time frame of the Plan

3.2 Defining the relationship between the UEMP and other existing plans, regulations and statutes

3.2.1 Taking into account both existing and pending plans and tools

3.2.2 Level of binding commitment of the Plan. What to do to raise the prospect of actual implementation of the Plan

ENVIPLANS Guidelines3.3 Resources and terms needed to develop and implement

the UEMP3.3.1 Organisation: who initiates the process and how3.3.2 Activating internal and external resources3.3.3 Forming , motivating and training technical staff3.3.4 On what financial resources can be counted on

3.4 Activating participative processes3.4.1 The main actors of the planning process3.4.2 When to launch participation3.4.3 How to keep the process alive3.4.4 Who decides, and how3.4.5 Selecting participants3.4.6 How participative processes can be best organised3.4.7 Raising citizens’ awareness and participation

ENVIPLANS Guidelines

4.Evaluation of initial analysis, directed towards the development of the plan4.1 Collecting and communicating basic information

4.1.1 How to organise and present information. What reporting format to use

4.1.2 How to select indicators for reporting

4.1.3 Getting hold of the required data4.1.4 How to communicate information

5. How to develop and detail Plan’s contents and direct them towards action

5.1 Defining objectives and setting targets5.1.1 What is a target and what is it used for5.1.2 Their definition is an arbitrary statement5.1.3 What steps to take

5.2 Preliminary outline and selection of actions5.2.1 How to generate and select actions

5.3 Defining roles and responsibilities, drafting the plan’s operational programme

5.3.1 Who should take on responsibilities for the Plan implementation5.3.2 How to structure the operational programme

5.4 Detailing financial aspects5.5 Closing the circle: monitoring, accounting, auditing,

evaluating results, reviewing objectives.

Single issue Guides: Air and Mobility

Single issue Guides: Energy and Climate

Single issue Guides: Noise

Single issue Guides: Waste and GPP

Single issue Guides: Green spaces and urban Biodiversity

www.enviplans.net

urban environmental management plans: the experience of enviplans project in south eu area eriuccio...

Documents

process of enviplans

urban environment planning

urban areas

networking enviplans

cities sevilla

cities members

european strategy

core group