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Name of the case study
Management of wind-farm developments in Wallonia (landscape and use of land)

Websites
Laws and Reports (international) • European Landscape Convention CETS No. : 176:
http://www.coe.int/t/e/Cultural_Co-operation/Environment/Landscape/State_of_signatures_and_ratifications/default.asp
• European EIA directive
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/eia/home.htm
• Aarhus Convention
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/aarhus/
Kyoto Protocol
• Wind Power & Policy in Europe
http://www.ewea.org/02policy/windineurope.htm

Laws and Reports(national)
• The Framework for Wind-Farm´s developments in the Wallonian Region:
http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgatlp/dgatlp/Pages/DAU/Pages/Accueil.htm
• Environment license and Unique License
http://www.permisenvironnement.be/

Wallonian Sites
• "Energy Site" of the Wallonian Region:
http://energie.wallonie.be/xml/index.html
• ´Environment Site´ of the Wallonian Region
http://environnement.wallonie.be/

Some other European guidelines references
• BELGIUM, Guide for EIA of wind-farms
http://environnement.wallonie.be/guides_incidences/pdf/Parc%20%C3%A9olien.pdf

• FRANCE, Guide for EIA of wind-farms
http://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=3534
• U.K., Best Practice Guidelines for Wind Energy Development
http://www.bwea.com/ref/bpg.html
• IRELAND Best Practice Guidelines for Wind Energy Development
http://www.iwea.com/publications/bestpractice.pdf • EUROPEAN Best Practice Guidelines for Wind Energy Development
http://www.windfarm.fsnet.co.uk/downloads/bgp.pdf

References
R. Bavay, (mars-avril 2003),L´écologie contre l'Environnement (Ecology versus Environment), Etudes Foncières n°102, France
(décembre 2004) Dossier Eolien (Wind-farm files, Special edition), Les cahiers de l'Urbanisme n°52, Belgium
http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgatlp/dgatlp/Pages/DGATLP/PagesDG/CahUrbNum/CahUrb52.htm (summaries in different languages!!)
La Wallonie pourrait doubler ses objectifs éoliens. (Walloniawould double its production of wind-energy)
http://www.regions.be/Rubriques/Wallonie/page_5590_300231.shtml