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ELECTRE III for Strategic Environmental Assessment: A “Phantom” Approach

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  • Fabrizio Battisti

    (Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Via della Mattonaia 8, 50121 Florence, Italy)

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The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic evaluation process of the environmental consequences of urban and territorial plans and programs which aims to guarantee a high degree of environmental protection and to contribute to integrating environmental factors during the design, adoption, and approval of plans and programs. Even if in Europe the SEA was already included in the legislation of each European Member State as of 2017, in these countries—and particularly in Italy—there is a diffuse lack of indications on procedures and/or evaluation protocols. In this article, the use of evaluation techniques in SEA is discussed. The specific objective of the research is the construction of an evaluation method to express a synthetic judgement—based on acknowledged, objective parameters—within the SEA procedure. According to the literature review, results regarding the SEA procedure, and its possible supporting methodologies, Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) appears to be the most SEA-coherent approach. Moreover, the ELECTRE method family has shown the highest suitability to perform the evaluation phase of SEA. Hence, an operational development of ELECTRE III is herein proposed and applied to a case study.

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  • Fabrizio Battisti, 2022. "ELECTRE III for Strategic Environmental Assessment: A “Phantom” Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-31, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:10:p:6221-:d:819820
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    1. Alison Donnelly & Terry Prendergast & Marie Hanusch, 2008. "Examining Quality Of Environmental Objectives, Targets And Indicators In Environmental Reports Prepared For Strategic Environmental Assessment," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 10(04), pages 381-401.
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    1. Fabrizio Battisti & Carlo Pisano, 2022. "Common Property in Italy. Unresolved Issues and an Appraisal Approach: Towards a Definition of Environmental-Economic Civic Value," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-21, October.

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