The focus of this working group is on integration of large-scale engineering projects into the landscape and the amelioration of their impacts on the environment. It represents an important interface between landscape architecture and civil engineering and relates closely to the issues of project appraisal and environmental assessment within the context of the EU Directive, its translation into national legislation and its implementation in the context of project planning. The focus is both on the particular landscape aspects of environmental assessment as well as on the wider process and its project management. Public participation aspects relating to the non-technical explanation of the project and the involvement of affected communities and groups in the process are also issues to be considered.

- Development of approaches to environmental assessment
- Principles and procedures of the EIA process
- The EU Assessment Directive
- National implementation of the EA Directive
- Project case studies
- Road and rail projects
- Large-scale developments (e.g. power stations)
- Water resources management projects
(reservoirs and dams; river regulation and engineering)
- Coastal protection and flood defence works
- Mineral extraction projects and the landscape
- Landfill and landscape
(protection of groundwater resources, re-vegetation of toxic materials & substrates)
- Restoration of derelict land
- Revitalisation of old industrial areas
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Project EIA
- Techniques of impact assessment
- Visual landscape analysis and presentation