Valutazione ambientale strategica e programmazione dello sviluppo urbano come attuazione della pianificazione strategica dei comuni della Sardegna

This paper analyzes the relationship between the strategies of the Strategic Plans and their implementation into the Masterplans (in Italian Piani urbanistici comunali, “PUC”) and into the Integrated plans for urban development (in Italian Piani integrati di sviluppo urbano, “PISU”) of Sardinian municipalities assuming the conceptual standpoint of Strategic environmental assessment (SEA, in Italian “VAS”) processes and of the Regional operational programs of the European Union’s Structural Funds. The results are related to the cognitive processes developed by the involved public administrations and by the local communities concerning the implementation of SEA and PISU as processes which, by identifying themselves with local plans’ and programs’ production, implement into local plans and programs the concepts of the municipalities’ Strategic Plans as qualified expressions of the intentionality of the local communities and of the EU’s investment programs concerning local urban development.