scholarly journals Spatial and environmental planning of sustainable regional development in Serbia

Spatium ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Maksin-Micic ◽  
Sasa Milijic ◽  
Marina Nenkovic-Riznic
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

The paper analyses the planning framework for sustainable territorial and regional development. The spatial and environmental planning should play the key role in coordination and integration of different planning grounds in achieving the sustainable regional development. The paper discusses the spatial planning capacity to offer the integral view of the sustainable territorial development. The brief review of tendencies in new spatial planning and regional policy has been given. The focus is on the concept of balanced polycentric development of European Union. The guiding principles of spatial planning in regard of planning system reform in European countries have been pointed out. The changes in paradigm of regional policy, and the tasks of European regional spatial planning have been discussed. In Serbia problems occur in regard with the lack of coordinating sectoral planning with spatial and environmental planning. Partly the problem lies in the legal grounds, namely in non codification of laws and unregulated horizontal and vertical coordination at all levels of governance. The possibilities for the implementation of spatial planning principles and concepts of European Union sustainable territorial and regional development have been analyzed on the case of three regional spatial plans of eastern and southeastern regions in Serbia. The disadvantages in implementing the strategic environmental impact assessment as an instrument for coordination and integration of sectorial planning with spatial and environmental planning have been analyzed. The strategic environmental impact assessment has been implemented only in the spatial planning process. Through spatial planning process its feedback effect on sectorial planning has been indirectly achieved. The priority actions in Serbia for achieving the spatial and environmental planning role in coordination and integration of different planning grounds in sustainable regional development have been given.

EIA SCREENING FOR CHANGES AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING PROJECTS: APPLYING AN EU PERSPECTIVE

2004 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 177-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOE WESTON
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Growth Area ◽  
The Uk

Directive 97/11/EC, amending the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive (85/337/EEC), introduced a number of key changes to the procedures of EIA in the European Union (EU). One significant amendment was the introduction of a requirement for EIAs to be completed for "changes or extensions to Annex I or II projects that have already been authorised executed or are in the process of being executed and which are likely to have significant adverse effects on the environment (CEC, 1997). That requirement imposes a duty on competent authorities to screen all changes and extensions of Annex I and Annex II projects for the need for EIA. Applying legal and policy principles established in the European Union, the scope of what constitute relevant changes and extensions is very wide. Given this wide scope, it would be reasonable to assume that screening changes or extensions would have been a major growth area of EIA activity in the UK. However, evidence presented here indicates just the opposite and suggests that many local planning authorities are not fully aware of the full implications of this clause in the EIA Directive. Furthermore, for the full implications of the "changes and extensions" clause to be implemented in the UK may require further amendments to the EIA legislation.

Environmental impact assessment: the background and the potential for the geologist

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 607-610
Author(s):  
S. E. Wiltshire ◽  
J. Cowley ◽  
J. C. Doornkamp
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Member States ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe environmental impact assessment (EIA) process in Britain has been stimulated by the EEC Directive of June 1985 which makes it mandatory for Member States to have appropriate legislation in place by June 1988. The history of planning in Britain has been to include environmental concerns in the normal planning process, and the Directive may do little to change what already happens. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that anyone applying for planning consent, including, for example, a mineral operator, can assist his case by including an EIA with his proposal. In certain circumstances such an EIA is greatly enhanced by an input from a geologist.

scholarly journals Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Analysis of the Federal Response in Canada and the United States

1969 ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
Sandra K. McCallum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Federal Response ◽  
Legislative Measures

This article examines the planning tool known as environmental impact assess ment. This tool is decision-making model which attempts to integrate en vironmental considerations into each stage of the planning process together with the traditional concerns of economics and technology in order to identify secon dary and cumulative impacts and to weigh environmental effects. The success of an assessment process depends on the capability of the chosen institutional arrangements to achieve the desired goal. The proposed federal procedure is ex amined and several weaknesses identified. One is the absence of legislative measures to support the process. The United States National Environmental Policy Act provides model. This statute is discussed with view to ascertaining whether like legislation in Canada would produce like result. The conclusion reached is that differences between Parliamentary and Congressional systems suggest that in Canada more appropriate course would be to adopt legislative measures which strengthen and improve the existing functions of government. Such course would better serve the goal of environmental impact assessment than attempts to transplant concepts which are ill fitted and insensitive to the parliamentary system.

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