Synopses & Reviews
An environmental assessment must be performed whenever a property transaction takes place. Those who don?t may find themselves responsible for the past misdeeds of others. This book contains contributions by professionals from various locations who use Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as a tool applied to water management issues.
SEA helps make decisions that increase sustainability. Because of its procedural nature, it necessarily becomes tailor-made to different applications. Easily understood and geographic in scope, this book presents leading edge thinking and first hand knowledge on the applications of SEA in water management.
Perspectives on Strategic Environmental Assessment is a comprehensive guidebook for performing environmental assessments all over the world. No other source provides you with as much information on the applications of SEA as a policy assessment and management tool. This book provides a blueprint for environmental assessments that safeguards you from the oversights of others.
Synopsis
Looks at important developments in the field of environmental assessment and provides current thought on the application and promise of strategic environmental assessment (SEA). Discusses new ways to approach environmental assessment that engage top-level decision- makers, provides a legal analysis of the integration of SEA into the existing EIA framework, and describes cases from around the world.
Synopsis
Perspectives on Strategic Environmental Assessment is a comprehensive guidebook for performing environmental assessments all over the world. No other source provides you with as much information on the applications of SEA as a policy assessment and management tool.
Table of Contents
Making EIA count in decision-making / Ray Clark -- Strategic sustainability appraisal - one way of using SEA in the move toward sustainability / Maria Rosâario Partidâario and Filipe V. Moura -- Toward a legal framework for SEA in Canada / Stephen Hazell and Hugh Benevides -- SEA within the government of Canada and specifically within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade / Jaye Shuttleworth and Jennifer Howell -- SEA in the Czech Republic / Milan Danny Machaéc, Vladimir Rimmel, and Lukâaés éZenatây -- Evaluating trade agreements for environmental impacts : a review and analysis / William E. Schramm -- Criteria for evaluation of SEA / Wil A.H. Thissen -- SEA experience in development assistance using the environmental overview / A.Lex Brown -- SEA of Parks Canada management plans / Suzanne Therrien-Richards -- Environmental assessment and planning in South Africa : the SEA connection / Keith Wiseman -- Strategic EA and water resource planning in Europe / Clare Brooke -- The use of SEA and EIA in decision-making on drinking water management and production in the Netherlands / Rob Verheem -- SEA of the Neiafu master plan, Vava'u, Tonga / Richard K. Morgan and Komeri R. Onorio -- SEA of water management plans and programs : lessons from California / Ronald Bass and Albert Herson -- SEA in the selection of projects to restore Louisiana's coast / Lee Wilson and Anna Hamilton -- SEA : the principles of negotiation, the disaggregative decision-making method, and parallel organization in regional development / Heli Tèorttèo -- SEA : the context for ex-ante public participation in transportation planning : the Quebec experience (Canada) / Pierre Andrâe and Jean-Pierre Gagnâe -- The future of SEA / Riki Therivel and Maria Rosâario Partidâario.