Keywords:
Environmental impact analysis.
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Strategic planning.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
�Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer�s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of the subject will find the book essential.� Leonard Ortolano, Professor at Stanford University, USA �Fischer�s book demystifies the process and substantive analytical dimensions of SEA. Offering solidly documented empirical evidence of the value of SEA to development, the knowledge captured in this book is a great contribution to the practice.� Linda Ghanime, Environmental Operations and Policy Adviser, United Nations Development Program �This book is an invaluable reference text for SEA practitioners. I recommend it to everyone!� Xu He, Professor and Director of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Center at Nankai University, China �Fischer gives a concise and wellstructured account of SEA as it is used today. Readers thus will gain important insights into SEA: why it is important, how it works, and what it can and should achieve.� Professor Thomas Bunge, Federal Environment Agency, Germany Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a fast-growing and rapidly evolving professional field driven by both advances in theory and practice and by regulatory requirements in Europe, North America, Australasia, South Africa and increasingly across Asia. However, to date, analysis of existing practice and associated reporting has remained far from systematic and there has been a clear need for a comprehensive textbook to facilitate teaching, learning and practice in this burgeoning field. This textbook, the first of its kind, provides for a state-ofthe-art review of SEA theory and practice and promotes a more systematic approach to SEA. It is written for a wide student, professional and academic audience and aims particularly at supporting the development of SEA
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849775922
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=585488
DDC:
333.71/4
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment Towards a More Systematic Approach -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- About This Book -- Acknowledgements -- Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 What is Strategic Environmental Assessment? -- 2 Strategic Environmental Assessment Process, Methods and Techniques -- 3 Identifying Appropriate Issues and Alternatives to be addressed in SEA: The Importance of a Tiered Approach -- 4 Comparative Review of 11 Established Strategic Environmental Assessment Systems -- 5 The European SEA Directive: Its Transposition and Implementation in the Member States -- 6 Spatial and Land Use Case Studies -- 7 Summary and Conclusions -- Annexes -- Annex 1 EU SEA Directive-based environmental report quality review table -- Annex 2 Post-Directive SEA case studies in EU member states -- Annex 3 Suggestions for exercise questions -- Bibliography -- Index.
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