Regional electricity transmission planning and SEA: The case of the electricity company ScottishPower

Marshall, Ross; Fischer, Thomas B.

doi:10.1080/09640560500508155

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“…This interaction may be a contributing factor to the rare application of SEA in the sector; only one formal SEA has been carried out since the Danish legislation on SEA became effective in 2004. Although SEA has been undertaking on a range of policies and plans within the energy sector (Jay, 2010), SEA application in the sector is complicated by the importance of the private sector (Marshall and Fischer, 2006) and the fragmentation of the sector (Jay, 2010).…”

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Between Policy-Making and Planning

Lyhne

2011

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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This article deals with the challenge of approaching decision-making processes through strategic environmental assessment (SEA). It is argued that the interaction between policymaking and planning in strategic decision-making processes is a neglected reason for problems with applying SEA, as legislation and guidance on SEA primarily approach either the policy or plan level. To substantiate the argument, the extent of interaction is empirically investigated. Four contemporary decision-making processes in the Danish energy sector are mapped as a series of choices. Fundamental changes with considerable environmental impacts are decided these years, often without preceding SEA processes. The mapping shows a profound interaction between policy-making and planning. In this interaction, public consultation, systematic environmental analyses, and transparency on alternatives are primarily related to choices of planning character. The findings lead to a discussion of the existing SEA guidance that is challenged in terms of adequacy of the guidance to approach the interaction.

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Between Policy-Making and Planning

Lyhne

2011

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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“…However, with the lack of local baseline data, and the importance of this data to the process (due to the SEA being of a Master Plan of small and defined spatial area of approximately 100 km 2 . This approach proved a useful synergy.…”

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“…Many SEA's carried out on plans, programmes or strategies are not focussed on particular developments and therefore do not precede a directly linked Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). This SEA, however, focuses on a number of large developments all of which will be subject to a discrete EIA [2], and as such it provides a valuable opportunity to exploit the synergies between the two processes, and to introduce the SEF process.…”

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“…This framework can then be refined during the preparation of the Environmental Impact Report [2], to take account of the individual parts of the development, and even the individual industries (Steps 4 and 5, Figure 1). In this way the SEA / SEF sets the overarching environmental constraints which both the EIA of the overall KPIZ Master Plan, and the project specific EIAs for industries within the industrial zone, must further develop.…”

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“…This SEF fed directly into the development of sustainable strategies for project level EIAs. Marshal and Fischer (2006) [2] commented on the paucity of reporting of the application of SEA in the private sector. This paper contributes further to reporting of SEA in the private sector, by innovatively applying an adaption of the standard Strategic Environmental Assessment methodology for a major private sector development in the Middle East, which fed directly into the development of sustainable strategies for project level EIAs.…”

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): an exploration of synergies through development of a Strategic Environmental Framework (SEF)

Cole¹,

Broderick²

2007

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 102

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The synergies between Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) have often been debated. In the right context, SEA can contribute to the efficiency of the EIA process, for example, when informing the scoping stage of the EIA. It can also compensate for some of the EIAs shortcomings, particularly in the provision of an effective monitoring framework. This paper reports on the SEA carried out on a port and industrial zone master plan in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This assessment is unusual in so much as it is a SEA of a privately funded master plan; is one of the first to be carried out in the Middle East (therefore not subject to EU Directive 2001/42/EC); and has been followed directly by an EIA of the same development. As such it provided a unique chance to adapt the SEA process and fully exploit any possible synergies between the two environmental assessment processes.

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Strategic Environmental Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Options in the Canadian Agricultural Sector

Noble

Christmas

2007

Environmental Management

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This article presents a methodological framework for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) application. The overall objective is to demonstrate SEA as a systematic and structured policy, plan, and program (PPP) decision support tool. In order to accomplish this objective, a stakeholder-based SEA application to greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policy options in Canadian agriculture is presented. Using a mail-out impact assessment exercise, agricultural producers and nonproducers from across the Canadian prairie region were asked to evaluate five competing GHG mitigation options against 13 valued environmental components (VECs). Data were analyzed using multi-criteria and exploratory analytical techniques. The results suggest considerable variation in perceived impacts and GHG mitigation policy preferences, suggesting that a blanket policy approach to GHG mitigation will create gainers and losers based on soil type and associate cropping and on-farm management practices. It is possible to identify a series of regional greenhouse gas mitigation programs that are robust, socially meaningful, and operationally relevant to both agricultural producers and policy decision makers. The assessment demonstrates the ability of SEA to address, in an operational sense, environmental problems that are characterized by conflicting interests and competing objectives and alternatives. A structured and systematic SEA methodology provides the necessary decision support framework for the consideration of impacts, and allows for PPPs to be assessed based on a much broader set of properties, objectives, criteria, and constraints whereas maintaining rigor and accountability in the assessment process.

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Regional electricity transmission planning and SEA: The case of the electricity company ScottishPower

Cited by 32 publications

References 8 publications

Between Policy-Making and Planning

Between Policy-Making and Planning

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): an exploration of synergies through development of a Strategic Environmental Framework (SEF)

Strategic Environmental Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Options in the Canadian Agricultural Sector

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