Emergy flows and sustainable indicators: the Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Master Plan

The dynamics we observe in human settlements, concerning many overlaid levels and dimensional scales, suggest the emergence of a new urban geography focussed on flows of energies and matter. Nowadays, these new practices are effectively desirable because they provide significant information about the dynamics occurring within a certain area and finally they can be practically involved in many processes of urban planning and territorial management. Furthermore, the appraisal of territorial sustainability is based on the information resulting from specific analysis and synthetic indicators, takin