Importance of context in adoption and progress in application of strategic environmental assessment: Experience of Thailand

Wirutskulshai, U.; Sajor, Edsel E.; Coowanitwong, Nowarat

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2011.01.001

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“…This study found that talking with local people on the power plant development issue was definitely sensitive as they did not trust the meeting organizer. This is the result of their negative experiences from several public hearings organized by the government agencies or consultants only in order to conform to the legislations but did not take the local people's opinions into consideration seriously [7]. …”

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Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to alleviate air pollution and the other impacts from power plant development

Poboon

2013

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Development of power plants in Thailand has become very difficult for several years especially a coal-fired power plant as it draws a very strong resistance from local communities and NGOs. The most concern of these people is air pollution with perceived serious impact on the health of local people and the environment. On the other hand, demand for electricity in the country has been soaring in line with the economic development. Hence, this study attempted to find a new approach to respond to both people's concern and the demand of the country. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a tool to assist decision-makers in considering benefits and impacts of proposed development policies, strategies or plans in a more comprehensive manner, in other words, to ensure the sustainable consequences of such development. A Regional Environmental Assessment (REA) which is a type of SEA focusing on analyzing the potential of a certain area against different kinds of development was selected for this study. The study started by interviewing relevant administrators and policy makers. In addition, public meetings with local people living around a power plant and also a proposed coal-fired power plant development site were organized. The 4-dimension REA then was developed in which initial indicators were proposed. This REA framework was presented for discussions in a stakeholder focus group meeting and in the second public meetings. Subsequently, a set of issues, indicators and criterion were established for analyzing the potential of any area against the development of power plant.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to alleviate air pollution and the other impacts from power plant development

Poboon

2013

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…Em países desenvolvidos, a regulamentação da AAE já foi implementada, como na Europa, com a diretiva europeia, na Califórnia (Estados Unidos) e Austrália (Fischer, 2007). Já em países em desenvolvimento, a existência de regulamentos específicos não é tão frequente; entre as exceções estão a Tailândia (Wirutskulshai, Sajor & Coowanitwong, 2011) e Taiwan (Liou & Yu, 2004).…”

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Análise da Proposta Federal de Implementação da Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica no Brasil

Almeida¹,

Roquetti²,

Martins³

et al. 2015

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RESUMOA avaliação ambiental estratégica (AAE) é um processo que faz com que questões ambientais sejam consideradas em decisões estratégicas (políticas, planos e programas). Após 2000, ocorreu a disseminação mundial da prática, sendo que diversos países já contam com regulamentação específica. O Brasil ainda está na etapa de propostas de implementação deste instrumento. Este trabalho objetiva averiguar se as diretrizes que estão sendo formuladas para a prática da AAE atendem a um conjunto de fatores que façam com que o sistema a ser implantado aponte para um caminho mais propício à efetividade de sua ação. Para este fim, foi adaptado o método proposto por Fischer (2007). Os resultados apontam como aspectos positivos da proposta a definição do objetivo da AAE e a previsão de participação da sociedade no processo e, como fraquezas, a falta de definição de responsabilidades e dos procedimentos a serem seguidos. A partir da conclusão de que o texto da minuta precisa ser melhorado, a experiência internacional precisa ser considerada para evitar erros cometidos e potencializar os ganhos da AAE.Palavras-chave: avaliação ambiental estratégica, efetividade, tomada de decisão.

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“…Wirutskulshai et al (2011) examine the recent SEA introduction in Thailand, where traditional top-down approach to spatial planning, the limitation to public participation, and the institutional and cultural context have so far minimized the efficacy of environmental assessment and its influence on development planning.…”

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Determinants of SEA effectiveness: an empirical investigation over municipal spatial planning in Sardinia

Montis¹,

Ledda²,

Ganciu³

et al. 2013

J Agricult Engineer

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The late formal tradition of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) European Directive into the Italian planning system has so far induced a variety of behaviour of administrative bodies and planning agencies involved. In Italy and Sardinia, a new approach to landscape planning is characterizing spatial planning practice from the regional to the municipal level. Currently municipalities are adjusting their master plan to the prescriptions of the regional landscape planning instrument (in Italian, Piano Paesaggistico Regionale, PPR), according to processes that have to be integrated with a proper SEA development. With respect to this background, the aim of this paper is to assess the level of SEA implementation on the master plans of Sardinia six years after the approval of the PPR. The first results show that many municipalities are not provided with a master plan (in Italian, Piano Urbanistico Comunale, PUC) and they have in force just an old planning tool. Moreover, just some municipalities have adapted the PUC to the PPR carrying out a SEA process.

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Importance of context in adoption and progress in application of strategic environmental assessment: Experience of Thailand

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to alleviate air pollution and the other impacts from power plant development

Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to alleviate air pollution and the other impacts from power plant development

Análise da Proposta Federal de Implementação da Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica no Brasil

Determinants of SEA effectiveness: an empirical investigation over municipal spatial planning in Sardinia

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