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Strategic Environmental Assessment: What Is It? & What Makes It Strategic?

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  • BRAM F. NOBLE

    (Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1B 3X9, Canada)

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This paper highlights perhaps one of the most fundamental issues constraining strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice — its definition. Current reviews fail to explain why certain assessments are referred to asstrategicwhile others are not. Furthermore, there appears to be very little attention given to the basic characteristics ofstrategyin the environmental assessment of proposed or existing policies, plans and programmes. This paper attempts to identify the characteristics of SEA that make itstrategicand therefore different from other forms of impact assessment. A review of selected case studies is undertaken with the purpose of identifying those assessments that actually conform to the characteristics of a "strategic assessment". It is argued here that if SEA methodology and practice is to advance, then a common understanding of its definition and characteristics must first be achieved.

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  • Bram F. Noble, 2000. "Strategic Environmental Assessment: What Is It? & What Makes It Strategic?," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(02), pages 203-224.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:02:y:2000:i:02:n:s146433320000014x
    DOI: 10.1142/S146433320000014X
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    1. Thomas B Fischer & Christopher Wood & Carys Jones, 2002. "Policy, Plan, and Programme Environmental Assessment in England, the Netherlands, and Germany: Practice and Prospects," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 29(2), pages 159-172, April.
    2. Morgan Vespa & A. John Sinclair & Morrissa Boerchers & Robert Gibson, 2017. "New Process, Same Doubts: Participants’ Perceptions of Strategic Environmental Assessment in Western Newfoundland," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(01), pages 1-25, March.
    3. K. Koppiahraj & S. Bathrinath & V. G. Venkatesh & Venkatesh Mani & Yangyan Shi, 2023. "Optimal sustainability assessment method selection: a practitioner perspective," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 324(1), pages 629-662, May.
    4. Walaa S. E. Ismaeel & Marwa Adel Elsayed, 2018. "The Interplay of Environmental Assessment Methods; Characterising the Institutional Background in Egypt," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(01), pages 1-27, March.
    5. Fabrizio Battisti, 2022. "ELECTRE III for Strategic Environmental Assessment: A “Phantom” Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-31, May.
    6. Rafik Hirji & Richard Davis, 2009. "Strategic Environmental Assessment : Improving Water Resources Governance and Decision Making," World Bank Publications - Reports 17244, The World Bank Group.
    7. Antonios Souloutzoglou & Anastasia Tasopoulou, 2020. "The Methods and Techniques of Strategic Environmental Assessment. Comparative Evaluation of Greek and International Experience," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-29, April.

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