Advances and challenges in the implementation of strategic environmental assessment in Chile

Rozas-Vásquez, Daniel; Gutiérrez, Patricia

doi:10.1080/14615517.2018.1490048

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“…In addition, IPP-FFWs are not the subject of a strategic environmental assessment process, since this instrument has not yet been implemented at the practical level in the country [41]), nor are they the subject of environmental assessment [42,43]. So far, state granted activities that impinge upon land use changes and their associated drivers go unchecked in environmental regulatory terms, increasing the pressure upon the local biota.…”

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confidence: 99%

Subsidy Accountability and Biodiversity Loss Drivers: Following the Money in the Chilean Silvoagricultural Sector

Vasco

Simonetti

2022

Sustainability

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In Chile, promotion of activities in the silvoagricultural sector has been made through the implementation of Instruments of Productive Promotion, which are governmental interventions oriented to increase productive systems by applying economic incentives. However, its use has not been exempted of criticism due to the poor articulation and coordination between the programs and because their implementation has lacked a coordinated territorial approach. Chile has committed to different international frameworks to protect biodiversity, including the Convention on Biological Diversity that, through the Aichi targets, aimed to either eliminate or reform incentives, including subsidies, to minimize negative impacts and to manage agriculture in a sustainable manner. Allocation of IPPs used to finance field work (IPP-FFWs) at the silvoagricultural sector was analyzed, including amounts granted, use of the funds, and geographical distribution; they explored eventual links with biodiversity trends, including identified drivers of biodiversity loss. We found that, in the last two decades, IPP-FFWs have more than quintupled; the activities funded relate to main anthropogenic factors associated with ecosystems deterioration, including land use change and plantations with exotic species; the funding mostly occurs where most relevant Chilean terrestrial biodiversity features concentrate and where most ecosystems that have been classified under risk are located.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subsidy Accountability and Biodiversity Loss Drivers: Following the Money in the Chilean Silvoagricultural Sector

Vasco

Simonetti

2022

Sustainability

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“…Without the influence of sustainable development goals, EIAs can only be of limited utility for achieving sustainability. One example of this is the limited capacity of EIA in urban planning in the coastal areas of Chile [13], where the proliferation of industries perpetuates the concentration of pollution in "sacrifice zones" [14].…”

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“…The Chilean model of development, far from being an "oasis", also echoes many of the other trends in South America. This model is based on natural resource extraction and fits Sustainability 2021, 13, 6986 2 of 13 in the wider universe of extractive countries, with abundant societal grievances, making sustainable development a difficult goal.…”

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confidence: 99%

Delayed and Approved: A Quantitative Study of Conflicts and the Environmental Impact Assessments of Energy Projects in Chile 2012–2017

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The Sistema de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental (Environmental Impact Assessment System—SEIA) evaluates all projects potentially harmful to human health and the environment in Chile. Since its establishment, many projects approved by the SEIA have been contested by organized communities, especially in the energy sector. The question guiding our research is whether socio-environmental conflicts affect the evaluation times and the approval rates of projects under assessment. Using a novel database comprising all energy projects assessed by the SEIA, we analyzed 380 energy projects that entered the SEIA review process between 2012 and 2017 and matched these projects with protest events. Using linear and logit regression, we find no association between the occurrence of protests aimed at specific projects and the probability of project approval. We do, however, find that projects associated with the occurrence of protest events experience significantly longer review times. To assess the robustness of this finding, we compare two run-of-river plants proposed in Mapuche territory in Chile’s La Araucanía region. We discuss the broader implications of these findings for sustainable environmental decision making.

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“…In Latin America, performing an SEA has been reviewed by several authors in countries like Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru [13][14][15][16], and they revealed a marked heterogeneity in the levels of SEA-related legal and practical advances [14,16]. The diversity of the legal component among these countries varies with general laws, like those found in Bolivia, Chile and Peru.…”

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“…In 2015, guidance guides were promoted and they were first applied to the National Spatial Planning policy (2017). These guides establish the SEA process in stages, and they have the support of senior management, which can provide training that has transformed the existing process into a strategic thinking model [15].…”

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Advances in Implementing Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Techniques in Central America and the Caribbean

et al. 2020

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The use of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) systems is essential to ensure the sustainability of plans, programs and policies. This works shows, for the first time in the scientific literature, a joint vision of the current situation of SEA systems in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The analysis has been performed using data collected from an exhaustive review of the pre-existing literature and specific information obtained from personal interviews carried out during the SEA forum held in Bogotá in 2018. Legal mechanisms in the Central American and Caribbean region reveal that specific regulation is not necessary to apply and develop SEA systems. Little experience in SEA development in the region is evidenced in the absence of SEA methodologies adapted to the different contexts of policies, plans, programs and governance circumstances. SEA results’ dissemination procedures have been performed only in El Salvador and Costa Rica. Besides, results show that no monitoring mechanisms for the programs implemented under SEA processes have been applied to date. To ensure the future development of SEA processes in the region under sustainable criteria, it is essential to ensure the support of decision makers so that plans and policies can be properly adapted.

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Advances and challenges in the implementation of strategic environmental assessment in Chile

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Subsidy Accountability and Biodiversity Loss Drivers: Following the Money in the Chilean Silvoagricultural Sector

Subsidy Accountability and Biodiversity Loss Drivers: Following the Money in the Chilean Silvoagricultural Sector

Delayed and Approved: A Quantitative Study of Conflicts and the Environmental Impact Assessments of Energy Projects in Chile 2012–2017

Advances in Implementing Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Techniques in Central America and the Caribbean

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