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Sea Must Learn How Policy Making Works

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  • TRACEY NITZ

    (School of Environmental Planning, Griffith University, Brisbane, 4111, Australia)

  • A. L. BROWN

    (School of Environmental Planning, Griffith University, Brisbane, 4111, Australia)

Abstract

The concept of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has developed rapidly in recent years and has been extensively promoted by environmental assessment (EA) practitioners. SEA has been the focus of considerable dialogue, increasing regulatory attention and emerging evidence of application. This paper seeks to advance the potential for the adoption of SEA in policy making by focusing attention on policy making processes themselves, and on the need for SEA procedures to be moulded to these existing policy making activities. We argue that widespread adoption of SEA concepts is unlikely unless EA practitioners become much more cognisant of the policy making process. Too much of the literature on SEA to date is insular — EA practitioners communicating amongst themselves. Dialogue on SEA development must be between EA proponents and policy makers/theorists if SEA of policy is to fulfil its promise. In order to make SEA of policies effective, SEA must influence the decisions that are intrinsic in policy making. We provide a simplified policy making model and demonstrate that it is necessary, and possible, for SEA to provide environmental input throughout the stages of policy formulation and decision making. The policy making context must drive the form and process of the SEA. In effect, this is an extension of Brown & Hill's (1995) notion of decision scoping, originally developed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of project-based EIA, to the environmental assessment of policies.

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  • Tracey Nitz & A. L. Brown, 2001. "Sea Must Learn How Policy Making Works," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(03), pages 329-342.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:03:y:2001:i:03:n:s146433320100073x
    DOI: 10.1142/S146433320100073X
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    1. Roberta Floris & Corrado Zoppi, 2015. "Social Media-Related Geographic Information in the Context of Strategic Environmental Assessment of Municipal Masterplans: A Case Study Concerning Sardinia (Italy)," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-18, August.
    2. Ayodele Omoniyi Olagunju & Jill A. E. Blakley, 2017. "Towards an Environmental Governance Agenda in Regional Environmental Assessment: A Case Study of the Crown Managers Partnership," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(02), pages 1-33, June.
    3. Ricardo M. Roura & Alan D. Hemmings, 2011. "Realising Strategic Environmental Assessment In Antarctica," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(03), pages 483-514.
    4. Corrado Zoppi & Cheti Pira, 2013. "VAS e piani urbanistici comunali in Sardegna: un?integrazione possibile," SCIENZE REGIONALI, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2013(2), pages 47-70.
    5. Debojyoti Mukherjee & Asha Rajvanshi, 2016. "Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment as a Land Use Planning Tool in India : A Case of Gurgaon-Manesar Development Plan, Haryana, India," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(02), pages 1-21, June.
    6. Paola Gazzola & Alessandro Rinaldi, 2016. "Reflecting on SEA’s Usefulness: A Case Study on Italy," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(04), pages 1-24, December.

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