Germana Manca
CRS4
Via Nazario Sauro,10
09123 Cagliari
Italy
e-mail:gmanca@crs4.it
Tel:+39-70-2796218
Fax:+39-70-2796216

Andrea De Montis
Dipartimento di Ing. del Territorio
Universita' di Sassari
Via E. di Nicola,2- 07100 Sassari
Italy
Tel:+39-79-229244
Fax:+39-79-217427

During the last few years researchers and environment planners have carried on their preliminary studies, according to a multidisciplinary approach. One of the main issue in this approach is  the sustainability of the economic development.  As a matter of fact it is recognized the importance of the study related to the distribution and to the limits of natural resources; this can be accomplished easier than before by the use of extremely powerful hardware and software.  The purpose of this contribution is to demonstrate the usefulness of an integrated approach to planning of GIS and RS in a complex problems of decision making. Many GIS applications are suited for remote sensing input and the integration of the techniques are becoming accepted in the landscape planning. By means of GIS and RS, environmental information will be integrated with administrative, political, social and economic data. GIS, RS and fuzzy analysis will be used to assist in environmental compatibility studies and decision making. As a case of study, an area located in the center part of Sardinia will be analyzed. This area is especially interesting because of the presence of industrial and agricultural resources and infrastructures.