Chapter 5. Linking Impact Assessment with Sustainable Development and the Introduction of Strategic Environmental Assessment

2001 ◽  
pp. 125-156 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment

Key Points of Strategic Environmental Assessment on Inland Ports – A Case Study Based on Shaoguan Port Master Planning SEA

2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 1289-1292
Author(s):  
Xuan Wu ◽  
Feng Xiao ◽  
Chun Ling Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions

With the purpose of improving the effectiveness of Strategic environmental impact assessment (SEA), the paper analyzed and discussed a case study of Shaoguan Port master planning SEA. Specific to the characteristics of inland ports and construction, the paper put forward the key points of inland ports master planning SEA, and the corresponding targeted countermeasures and suggestions to improve scientificity of the inland ports planning and to achieve sustainable development of inland ports.

Conference Report: WORKSHOP ON "LINKING IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS"

2002 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 465-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM R. SHEATE
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Decision Aiding ◽  
Sustainability Appraisal

As the concepts associated with sustainable development mature, and new and modified decision aiding tools are developed, so links between environmental assessment and management tools become all the more essential. Increasingly there is experience of trying to make links between tools, e.g. EIA/SEA and EMS, LCA and SEA, SEA and sustainability appraisal etc. The purpose of this workshop was to exchange experience and to discuss theoretical and practical linkages between tools that can be made and further developed.

AN INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW OF STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, WITH REFERENCE TO WORLD HERITAGE AREAS GLOBALLY AND IN AUSTRALIAN COASTAL ZONES

2002 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON MARSDEN
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Development Methods

This paper examines international best practice with strategic environmental assessment (SEA), which is designed to advance sustainability and overcome weaknesses in environmental impact assessment (EIA). It illustrates how government, business and the community have identified the need for SEA. It explains why there has been a substantial debate regarding the importance of establishing key principles, and why consideration must be given to decision and policy contexts in order to guide future successful development. Methods and procedures are outlined, and SEA practice and potential nationally, regionally and globally is considered with particular regard to World Heritage Areas (WHAs). Conclusions and recommendations are drawn with specific reference to the current and future position of SEA and WHAs in Australian coastal zones.

STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AS A TOOL TO CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH-LEVEL POLICY OBJECTIVES

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELSA JOÃO ◽  
ANNA MCLAUCHLAN
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Assessment Policy ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
High Level

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has often been identified as a key tool to contribute to sustainable development. This special issue of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management focuses on European SEA practice between 2003 and 2010 to critically evaluate SEA links to sustainable development and similar, difficult to define, high-level policy objectives: democratisation, good governance, agri-environmental objectives, and environmental justice. The papers centre upon the three main topics covered by the different research: SEA outcomes being directly related to policy goals; an analysis of the absence of SEA applied to "positive" policy objectives; and the realism of associating SEA with high-level policy objectives. In particular, this paper calls for greater critical engagement with this latter topic, identifying a need to examine why associations are made between SEA and policy goals.

DESIGNING A MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF URBAN PLANS IN CHINA

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 451-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
CUN-KUAN BAO ◽  
YING-WEI GAO ◽  
YING-LIE ZHOU ◽  
LI OU-YANG ◽  
HE HUANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Urban Master Plan ◽  
The Relationship

Based on the revision of the Methods for Urban Plan Formulation and the Technical Guidelines of Environmental Impact Assessment for Urban Master Plan (in draft), this paper proposes a management framework for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of Urban Plans. In this context, the urban plan compilation system and the requirements for Urban Plan SEAs are explained. This is followed by the introduction of three types of urban plan SEAs, namely forecasting SEA, monitoring or follow-up SEA, and retrospective SEA. The relationship among the institutions/agencies involved in urban planning SEAs is discussed and three implementation modes are proposed, including an internal-implementation mode, an external-implementation mode and a mixed-implementation mode. Finally, substantive SEA aspects for various types of urban plans are identified.

scholarly journals Strategic Environmental Assessment in the Application of Preventive Protection for Wind Farm Noise—Case Study: Maestrale Ring Wind Farm

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 6174
Author(s):  
Boško D. Josimović ◽  
Aleksandar Cvjetić ◽  
Božidar Manić
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment

Determining the spatial position of wind turbines is the initial and most important phase in the development of a wind farm project. In this sensitive phase, all potential problems that may arise in the later stages of project development should be prevented by means of spatial and urban planning instruments. This makes it possible to achieve maximum use of the potential of wind in a particular space and, thus, fulfil the technical and economic requirements of the project while respecting the goals of environmental protection in that same area, through preventive protection. Therefore, it is essential, even at the earliest planning and development stage of a wind farm project, for the requirements that are important for optimal spatial solutions to be balanced. In this process, strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a support to the planning process and an invaluable instrument for finding optimal spatial solutions for the possible key spatial impacts of wind power with regard to noise, shadow flicker, ornithofauna and chiropterofauna. The weakness of SEA can be seen in its predominant application of expert qualitative methods that bring with them subjectivity, since they depend on expert knowledge and skills. This paper presents the aspect of noise impact assessment and its inclusion in the SEA for the Maestrale Ring wind farm in Serbia. The results of the research indicate how it is possible to achieve the principle of objectivity in the process of multicriteria expert evaluation by including the results of a partial impact assessment of the noise from wind farms, using results obtained from software modeling of the spatial dispersion of wind turbine noise in the SoundPlan 8.1 software package in the SEA process. These quantitative results predicting the noise level were used in a semi-quantitative method of multicriteria evaluation in the SEA through the definition of criteria to determine the ranking of impacts, which is elaborated in the paper. The results also show the significant of the contribution of applying a methodological approach based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods in SEA. These methods positively affect the application of the principle of preventive protection through the optimal selection of the number and position of wind turbines on one hand and the objectivity of drawing conclusions based on which strategic decisions are made in the final phase of the SEA process, on the other.

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