By Thomas B Fischer
?Anyone enthusiastic about integrating environmental components into making plans and coverage making will achieve new insights and ideas from Fischer?s e-book on SEA; and scholars, academics and practitioners of the topic will locate the ebook essential.? Leonard Ortolano, Professor at Stanford college, united states ?Fischer?s e-book demystifies the method and great analytical dimensions of SEA. providing solidly documented empirical facts of the price of SEA to improvement, the information captured during this booklet is a brilliant contribution to the practice.? Linda Ghanime, Environmental Operations and coverage Adviser, United countries improvement software ?This booklet is a useful reference textual content for SEA practitioners. i like to recommend it to everyone!? Xu He, Professor and Director of the Strategic Environmental evaluate heart at Nankai college, China ?Fischer provides a concise and wellstructured account of SEA because it is used this present day. Readers hence will achieve very important insights into SEA: why it will be important, the way it works, and what it may and may achieve.? Professor Thomas Bunge, Federal surroundings supplier, Germany Strategic Environmental overview (SEA) is a fast-growing and speedily evolving expert box pushed by way of either advances in conception and perform and by way of regulatory necessities in Europe, North the US, Australasia, South Africa and more and more throughout Asia. in spite of the fact that, up to now, research of current perform and linked reporting has remained faraway from systematic and there was a transparent want for a finished textbook to facilitate educating, studying and perform during this burgeoning box. This textbook, the 1st of its variety, offers for a state-ofthe-art assessment of SEA thought and perform and promotes a extra systematic method of SEA. it's written for a large pupil, expert and educational viewers and goals rather at assisting the advance of SEA modules in undergraduate and postgraduate making plans, environmental evaluation, engineering and legislation classes. It offers an outline of the basic rules and principles of SEA, stories systematically on foreign SEA perform and idea and pushes the envelope through constructing the idea. aiding fabric comprises boxed examples and case reviews from all over the world, additional interpreting feedback and a word list of phrases. this is often the fundamental e-book for all scholars, execs and lecturers in SEA and EIA and follow-up around the world.
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The argument is that if SEA acts as an instrument for sustainable development, by addressing interdependencies, an improved balance of the different assessment aspects in decision-making should result. There have also been claims that an integrated approach to impact assessment will assist in a better implementation of all thematic PPPs (Scholten and Post, 1999). Furthermore, integration is supposed to help effectively address overlapping areas of concern, reduce duplication of efforts and make assessments more user-friendly (Milner et al, 2003).
While at times this is referred to as the ‘EIA-based’ approach, it is suggested here that this notion should be avoided, as even project EIA should not be applied in a reactive and ex-post manner. In this context, it is also important to acknowledge that in a number of systems EIA has shown to be of good quality (see, for example, Barker and Wood, 2001). Within these systems, to refer to EIA as a reactive tool that is applied in an ex-post and ineffective manner would likely result in some considerable confusion and would be counterproductive.
Effective integration of SEA into decision-making is vital if SEA is to be meaningful and beneficial. Follow-up and monitoring SEA should neither be conducted in a reactive manner, nor should it be an exercise that informs the PPP process only at one stage. Rather, SEA should be used as a proactive environmental management instrument. In this context, it needs to reach beyond the decision-making stage. While an important task of environmental assessment follow-up is to try to establish cause–effect relationships, in SEA this may frequently be difficult to achieve, particularly due to the abstract nature and the time gap with project implementation (Fischer, 2004a; Perdicoúlis et al, forth- 30 • • Conformance follow-up – complying with agreed PPP/SEA objectives, regulatory requirements, standards and conditions; Performance follow-up – checking the satisfactory environmental and possibly sustainability performance at subsequent stages of decision-making and following implementation; attempting to connect causes and effects; Uncertainty follow-up – managing actual impacts; reviewing the effectiveness of any possible mitigation or compensation measures and possibly modifying activities in case of unpredicted harmful effects; Dissemination follow-up – providing feedback for the design of new PPPs.