Strategic environmental assessment for sustainability: A review of a decade of academic research

White, Lisa; Noble, Bram

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2012.10.003

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“…These indirect impacts and longer-term outcomes must be more specific than simply 'sustainability' or 'inter-and intra-generational equity,' as is often the case in practice (White & Noble 2013). Simple and pragmatic criteria and/ or indicators are required to follow-up on and evaluate the outcomes of SEA (Hacking & Guthrie 2006;White & Noble 2012); those identified by our panel of reviewers (Table 3) and by Chanchitpricha and Bond (2013) may serve as a foundation for the development of more contextspecific metrics for SEA evaluation.…”

Section: Understanding and Advancing Sea's Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment

Acharibasam

Noble

2014

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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This paper examines the impact of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) -its direct impact on policies, plans and programs (PPPs) and its indirect and longer-term impacts. Criteria for assessing SEA's impact are developed and applied in the Canadian context based on a survey of SEA practitioners, and the perceived opportunities and challenges to realizing the full impact of SEA explored. Results indicate that SEA does have a direct impact on PPPs, but its indirect impacts are either constrained or difficult to distinguish from an agency's normal policies, practices and innovations. Amongst the most significant challenges to realizing the indirect impacts of SEA is the lack of shared vision for SEA by those responsible for implementation, and incongruences between the need for rapid results by way of PPP approval versus the long-term commitment required to realize many of the benefits of SEA. Indirect impacts require more explicit consideration at the outset of the SEA design process than what is currently the case if the benefits of SEA are to be fully recognized.

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Section: Understanding and Advancing Sea's Impactmentioning

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Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment

Acharibasam

Noble

2014

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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“…Many researchers have defined the concept of sustainability where White (2013) defined it as the process of creating a continuous value for current and future generations. Landrum (2009) enhanced this concept when he said "The organization's ability to maintain the organization's resources, assets and funds over the long term".…”

Section: Organizational Sustainabilitymentioning

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Competitive Advantage Based on Human Capital and its Impact on Organizational Sustainability: Applied Study in Jordanian Telecommunications Sector

Alnidawi¹,

Alshemery²,

Abdulrahman³

2017

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The current situation facing business organizations is characterized by diverse work environments with continuous change and development. Todays organizations seek to keep pace with this continuous development and operate to maintain their current business through the ability to effectively respond to change, and to create competitive advantage based on the existence of qualified human capital that contribute to the creation of organizational sustainability in the business sector. Talented human capital, with special skills, has the potential to create confidence and integration among the staff and top management, leading to organizational growth and continuation (Kurucz, 2013). The emergence of a set of challenges in the knowledge economy has had a clear reflection on business organizations which have begun to search for new mechanisms to compete and insure their existence in the business world. Hence, the importance of the concept of competitive advantage, based on human capital, as a necessary requirement to deal with the challenges faced by local, regional or international organizations (Global Institute, 2011). Where competitive advantage based on human capital is the main generator of new ideas, development of old ideas, and contribution to aid in organizational abilities to expand their current market share as well as maximizing value. Competitive advantage based on talented human capital allows organizations to be able to seize new opportunities and achieve permanence and future continuity (Thomas, 2014). This study aimed to look at the impact of competitive advantage through intellectual capital investment as one of the elements in the creation of organizational sustainability in the Jordanian Telecommunications Companies sector. Simple and Multiple regression was used for data analysis and testing the hypotheses of this research .This study has reached a set of results that previous studies reinforced in this area such as: Competitive advantage based on a distinct capital is the optimum method that should be used in telecommunications companies since it contributes to the optimal investment of human capital. This leads to optimum organizational sustainability for companies in various fields and also contributes to the achievement of a company's mission and vision of the future.

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“…Several useful environmental assessment tools exist for promoting sustainable development, including strategic environmental assessment (SEA) [78,79], territorial impact assessment (TIA) [80,81] and spatial policy monitoring. These tools focus on the process by which environmental considerations are fully integrated into the preparation and adoption of policies, plans, and programs.…”

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Application of Environmental Change Efficiency to the Sustainability of Urban Development at the Neighborhood Level

Kuo

Tsou

2015

Sustainability

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This study describes a new assessment model framework, termed the driving forces-pressure-state-impact-policy and pattern (DPSIP) model, for environmental change efficiency in urban land development, based on urban sustainable development and the theory of economic efficiency evaluation. A spatial and measurable efficiency value is defined for environmental changes in urban land development, which provides a comprehensive evaluation index for the efficiency of urban development and its environmental impact. This type of urban interior sustainability is considered new within the context of global environmental changes. We identify nine important indicators to evaluate the relative efficiency of 233 neighborhoods in Tainan, Taiwan. The results indicate that the average environmental change efficiency is 89.44%, which shows clear spatial differentiation. The key indicators affecting the efficiency score are area, population density, location, mixed land uses, the floor area ratio, and the impervious ratio. In the future, urban design can reduce environmental impacts and enhance efficiency values.

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Strategic environmental assessment for sustainability: A review of a decade of academic research

Cited by 112 publications

References 57 publications

Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment

Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment

Competitive Advantage Based on Human Capital and its Impact on Organizational Sustainability: Applied Study in Jordanian Telecommunications Sector

Application of Environmental Change Efficiency to the Sustainability of Urban Development at the Neighborhood Level

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