Implementing Strategic Environmental Assessment

✍ Scribed by Elsa João (auth.), Professor Dr. Michael Schmidt, Dr. Elsa João, Dr. Eike Albrecht (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 744
• Series: Environmental Protection in the European Union 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

More countries are now using Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) than ever before. This timely and comprehensive Handbook describes the implementation of SEA in 18 countries around the world, as well as a critical analysis of different SEA methodologies. The Handbook starts by introducing key SEA principles and the legal requirements of the new European SEA Directive (which became law in 2004). It then describes the implementation of SEA in 11 European Union countries, as well as the USA, Canada and New Zealand. This is contrasted with SEA requirements of four developing countries. The Handbook explores public participation issues and the wide-range of SEA methodologies used in terms of resources (soils, water and biodiversity) and sectors of activity (transport, agriculture, waste management and industry). The Handbook concludes with a discussion on best practice, capacity building and the future of SEA.

✦ Table of Contents

Key Principles of SEA....Pages 3-14
Purpose and Background of the European SEA Directive....Pages 15-29
Legal Context of the SEA Directive — Links with other Legislation and Key Procedures....Pages 31-56
Transposition of the SEA Directive into National Law — Challenges and Possibilities....Pages 57-67
Some Legal Problems of Implementing the SEA Directive into Member States’ Legal Systems....Pages 69-79
Current SEA Practice in England....Pages 83-98
Implementing SEA in Germany....Pages 99-116
Implementing SEA in Italy — The Case of the Emilia Romagna Region....Pages 117-135
First Experiences with Implementing SEA Legislation in Flanders (Belgium)....Pages 137-148
Implementing SEA in Austria....Pages 149-158
Implementing SEA in Finland — Further Development of Existing Practice....Pages 159-175
Problems of a Minimalist Implementation of SEA — The Case of Sweden....Pages 177-191
National Strategy for the Implementation of SEA in the Czech Republic....Pages 193-200
Developments of SEA in Poland....Pages 201-215
Experiences with SEA in Latvia....Pages 217-225
Implementing SEA in Estonia....Pages 227-235
Improved Decision-Making through SEA — Expectations and Results in the United States....Pages 239-250
SEA in Canada....Pages 251-268
SEA of Plan Objectives and Policies to Promote Sustainability in New Zealand....Pages 269-287
The Need for SEA in Kenya....Pages 291-303
SEA for Water Resource Management in Ghana....Pages 305-319
SEA in Ukraine....Pages 321-330
Importance of SEA in China — The Case of Three Gorges Dam Project....Pages 331-345
Tools for SEA....Pages 349-363
Methodological Approaches to SEA within the Decision-Making Process....Pages 365-383
Strategic Level Cumulative Impact Assessment....Pages 385-395
Handling Transboundary Cumulative Impacts in SEA....Pages 397-408
Cultural Integrity as a Criterion of SEA....Pages 409-420
Requirements and Methods for Public Participation in SEA....Pages 421-432
Public Participation for SEA in a Transboundary Context....Pages 433-442
Developing Quantitative SEA Indicators Using a Thermodynamic Approach....Pages 443-458
A Structural and Functional Strategy Analysis for SEA....Pages 459-469
Soil Resources and SEA....Pages 473-493
Towards the Implementation of SEA — Learning from EIA for Water Resources....Pages 495-511
Links between the Water Framework Directive and SEA....Pages 513-522
Assessing Biodiversity in SEA....Pages 523-538
Biodiversity Programmes on Global, European and National Levels Related to SEA....Pages 539-554
Co-ordination of SEA and Landscape Planning....Pages 557-570
Urban Planning and SEA....Pages 571-584
SEA in Transport Planning in Germany....Pages 585-597
SEA for Agricultural Programmes in the EU....Pages 599-619
SEA of Waste Management Plans — An Austrian Case Study....Pages 621-630
Mining Industry and SEA — An Example in Turkey....Pages 631-645
Capacity-Building and SEA....Pages 649-663
A Critique of SEA from the Point of View of the German Industry....Pages 665-672
Best Practice Use of SEA — Industry, Energy and Sustainable Development....Pages 673-690
SEA Outlook — Future Challenges and Possibilities....Pages 691-700

✦ Subjects

Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice;European Law/Public International Law;European Integration;Environmental Economics;Administrative Law;Law and Economics