Environmental Planning visit guide
Environmental issues a core regional trend
The environmental transition undertaken by all regional stakeholders is tending to play a pivotal role, standing at the intersection of all public policies. This extremely cross-disciplinary aspect is leading public decision-makers to implement actions that serve the interests of the environment, the climate, biodiversity, the fight against pollution, adaptation, resources and the planet’s limits… This is all occuring in an integrated, planned way through long-term management which connects the short and the long term more, with immediate action leading to benefits to come.
This also requires practical, local actions right down to the most granular regional level in order to ensure the requisite transformations that will fully combine environmental, economic and social equilibriums.
Indicative topics that will be addressed
in this area:
- Waste collection – selective sorting – recycling
- Repairs – Re-use
- Circular economy and organising local economic loops
- Water resource management
- Water and sanitation networks and services
- Preservation of natural ecosystems and biodiversity
- Coping with climate change (buildings, revegetation, renaturation…)
- Risk management for the environment
- Combatting environmental pollution
- Air quality (indoors and outdoors)
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