Purpose and Background of the European SEA Directive

Kläne, Christian; Albrecht, Eike

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“…Also, the social and cultural heritage assessments of land use planning should be given priority during the SEA process of land use planning to reduce or eliminate socio-cultural conflicts and protect the cultural heritage. Additionally, the general SEA process of land use planning may adopt that of the EU systems, especially when dealing with the potentially significant environmental issues due to the successful implementation of the process within the EU region [37]. However, specific areas e.g., cultural, social, and economic aspects of the SEA can be modified by considering the socio-cultural and economic conditions of the people being planned for.…”

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“…Implementing the SEA process has long-term benefits (e.g., environmentally-friendly development, a smoother planning process, greater plan transparency) that can vastly exceed the short-term cost, especially if it addresses environmental problems to support achieving the environmental goals of plans [36]. In some parts of the world, particularly in the European Union, the SEA process has been implemented since 2001 [37]. While implementing the SEA process in Sub-Saharan Africa, attempts were made in some countries, including Botswana [27], South Africa [38], and Ghana [39].…”

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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

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Land use planning as strategic instruments to guide urban dynamics faces particular challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa, where urgent interventions are required to improve urban and environmental sustainability. This study investigated and identified key challenges of land use planning and its environmental assessments to improve the urban and environmental sustainability of city-regions. In doing so, we combined expert interviews and questionnaires with spatial analyses of urban and regional land use plans, as well as current and future urban land cover maps derived from Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing. By overlaying and contrasting land use plans and land cover maps, we investigated spatial inconsistencies between urban and regional plans and the associated urban land dynamics and used expert surveys to identify the causes of such inconsistencies. We furthermore identified and interrogated key challenges facing land use planning, including its environmental assessment procedures, and explored means for overcoming these barriers to rapid, yet environmentally sound urban growth. The results illuminated multiple inconsistencies (e.g., spatial conflicts) between urban and regional plans, most prominently stemming from conflicts in administrative boundaries and a lack of interdepartmental coordination. Key findings identified a lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment and inadequate implementation of land use plans caused by e.g., insufficient funding, lack of political will, political interference, corruption as challenges facing land use planning strategies for urban and environmental sustainability. The baseline information provided in this study is crucial to improve strategic planning and urban/environmental sustainability of city-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the Global South, where land use planning faces similar challenges to address haphazard urban expansion patterns.

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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

et al. 2021

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“…Em vários países, particularmente na Europa, a AAE foi institucionalizada e é objeto de leis e regulamentos (Dalal-Clayton;Sadler, 2004;Kläne;Albrecht, 2005). Sua expansão vem sendo promovida por países doadores de recursos para o desenvolvimento no âmbito do Comitê de Ajuda ao Desenvolvimento da Organização para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE) Croal, 2012), posição que os alinha à política que adotada por alguns bancos multilaterais de desenvolvimento (Ahmed;Mercier;Verheem, 2005).…”

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Por que não avança a avaliação ambiental estratégica no Brasil?

Sánchez

2017

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Resumo Embora discutida em certos círculos acadêmicos e governamentais há mais de vinte anos, a Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica (AAE) pouco avança no país. São conhecidos cerca de 40 AAE, mas seus resultados são pífios, se considerada sua influência sobre processos decisórios. A AAE não deveria estar limitada a planos, programas ou políticas de setores cujos principais projetos já são objeto de licenciamento ambiental, mas voltada primordialmente para políticas públicas cujas consequências socioambientais são hoje amplamente ignoradas, a exemplo das macroeconômicas. Para avançar, é preciso evidenciar as vantagens da AAE para os tomadores de decisão e encontrar formas de superar a desconfiança que tem os políticos, em todos os níveis de governo, de um processo que percebem como redutor de sua margem de discrição e poder decisório. Inevitavelmente, a AAE exige maior transparência e melhor governança. Esse é o grande obstáculo à sua adoção no Brasil.

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“…However, the lack of a comprehensive institutional SEA framework provided an incentive for certain member states to adopt such systems in the 1980s and 1990s [4]. Regardless, the utilization of a variety of different procedures demonstrated the need for adoption of a comprehensive institutional SEA framework at the EU level, leading to the submission of a preliminary proposal for discussion by the European Commission in 1990 [17]. The publication of the official proposal from the European Commission was submitted in December 1996, and it became the subject of in-depth debate.…”

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The Methods and Techniques of Strategic Environmental Assessment. Comparative Evaluation of Greek and International Experience

Souloutzoglou

Tasopoulou

2020

Sustainability

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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a process used for the evaluation of environmental impacts at a higher level of decision-making than that of each individual project, i.e., during the preparation and implementation of policies, programs, and plans, with the objective of incorporating the aspect of sustainable development in the early stages of planning. However, the “strategic” nature of SEA is the cause of frequent confusion among the responsible competent institutions and professionals regarding the selection of the most appropriate methods and techniques for each individual situation. At the international level, current research indicates a certain ambiguity in the use of methods and techniques in every step of SEA processes. In Greece, despite the implementation of SEA procedures in the preparation of a number of plans and programs after the transposal of the SEA Directive, to date, no attempt has been made to systematize the current experience and practice from the utilization of methods and techniques. The objective of the present study is to analyze and provide a comparative evaluation of the Greek and international experience, on the one hand with the systematic examination of Strategic Environmental Impact Assessments, and on the other with primary research, through questionnaires addressed to Greek practitioners. An important observation is that, both in Greece and abroad, there are inadequacies in the existence and/or the use of guidance manuals for the selection of the most appropriate methods and techniques, and only a limited range of methods and techniques are used in comparison with those catalogued in international literature.

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Purpose and Background of the European SEA Directive

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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Por que não avança a avaliação ambiental estratégica no Brasil?

The Methods and Techniques of Strategic Environmental Assessment. Comparative Evaluation of Greek and International Experience

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