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This comprehensive Handbook shows how Strategic Environmental
Assessment (SEA), an important decision support tool for
strategies, policies, plans and programmes, is applied globally. It
reflects on SEA practices and the advancements made over the past
three decades in the development of SEA. Forty-six expert
international contributors discuss the conceptual approaches and
applications of SEA in 31 countries, examining numerous sectors,
including land-use, transport, energy and water. They also explore
how SEA is applied at trans-national, national, regional and local
levels, and at a range of decision tiers, including in strategy and
policy, as well as in plans and programmes. Analysing how different
situations of application are systematically approached, chapters
provide a critical insight into the objectives of SEA and the range
of methodologies that are available. Taking a forward-thinking
approach, the Handbook also identifies key trends and prospects for
SEA in addition to addressing issues of SEA effectiveness and
theory development. This Handbook will be a valuable resource for
academics and students of environmental governance and regulation.
It will also be beneficial for impact assessment practitioners,
environmental NGOs and policy makers in the fields of environment
and sustainability.
Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into
planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from
Fischer s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of
the subject will find the book essential. Leonard Ortolano,
Professor at Stanford University, USA Fischer s book demystifies
the process and substantive analytical dimensions of SEA. Offering
solidly documented empirical evidence of the value of SEA to
development, the knowledge captured in this book is a great
contribution to the practice. Linda Ghanime, Environmental
Operations and Policy Adviser, United Nations Development Program
This book is an invaluable reference text for SEA practitioners. I
recommend it to everyone! Xu He, Professor and Director of the
Strategic Environmental Assessment Center at Nankai University,
China Fischer gives a concise and wellstructured account of SEA as
it is used today. Readers thus will gain important insights into
SEA: why it is important, how it works, and what it can and should
achieve. Professor Thomas Bunge, Federal Environment Agency,
Germany Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a fast-growing
and rapidly evolving professional field driven by both advances in
theory and practice and by regulatory requirements in Europe, North
America, Australasia, South Africa and increasingly across Asia.
However, to date, analysis of existing practice and associated
reporting has remained far from systematic and there has been a
clear need for a comprehensive textbook to facilitate teaching,
learning and practice in this burgeoning field. This textbook, the
first of its kind, provides for a state-ofthe-art review of SEA
theory and practice and promotes a more systematic approach to SEA.
It is written for a wide student, professional and academic
audience and aims particularly at supporting the development of SEA
modules in undergraduate and postgraduate planning, environmental
assessment, engineering and law courses. It provides an overview of
the fundamental principles and rules of SEA, reports systematically
on international SEA practice and theory and pushes the envelope by
developing the theory. Supporting material includes boxed examples
and case studies from around the world, extra reading suggestions
and a glossary of terms. This is the essential book for all
students, professionals and academics in SEA and EIA and follow-up
worldwide.
Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for
effective planning of transport and land use. This is an analysis
of transport and land-use planning using strategic environmental
assessment (SEA). It establishes the effectiveness of SEA through
comparative studies of practice in three countries: Britain, the
Netherlands and Germany. The author shows that use of SEA is
widespread but far from systematic. He demonstrates the advantages
of adopting a systematic application of a comprehensive form of SEA
derived from all the major current approaches. Only once this
approach is fully understood and systematically applied will all
the full benefits be achieved and environmental impacts be
minimalized.
Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into
planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from
Fischer s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of
the subject will find the book essential. Leonard Ortolano,
Professor at Stanford University, USA Fischer s book demystifies
the process and substantive analytical dimensions of SEA. Offering
solidly documented empirical evidence of the value of SEA to
development, the knowledge captured in this book is a great
contribution to the practice. Linda Ghanime, Environmental
Operations and Policy Adviser, United Nations Development Program
This book is an invaluable reference text for SEA practitioners. I
recommend it to everyone! Xu He, Professor and Director of the
Strategic Environmental Assessment Center at Nankai University,
China Fischer gives a concise and wellstructured account of SEA as
it is used today. Readers thus will gain important insights into
SEA: why it is important, how it works, and what it can and should
achieve. Professor Thomas Bunge, Federal Environment Agency,
Germany Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a fast-growing
and rapidly evolving professional field driven by both advances in
theory and practice and by regulatory requirements in Europe, North
America, Australasia, South Africa and increasingly across Asia.
However, to date, analysis of existing practice and associated
reporting has remained far from systematic and there has been a
clear need for a comprehensive textbook to facilitate teaching,
learning and practice in this burgeoning field. This textbook, the
first of its kind, provides for a state-ofthe-art review of SEA
theory and practice and promotes a more systematic approach to SEA.
It is written for a wide student, professional and academic
audience and aims particularly at supporting the development of SEA
modules in undergraduate and postgraduate planning, environmental
assessment, engineering and law courses. It provides an overview of
the fundamental principles and rules of SEA, reports systematically
on international SEA practice and theory and pushes the envelope by
developing the theory. Supporting material includes boxed examples
and case studies from around the world, extra reading suggestions
and a glossary of terms. This is the essential book for all
students, professionals and academics in SEA and EIA and follow-up
worldwide.
Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for
effective planning of transport and land use. This is an analysis
of transport and land-use planning using strategic environmental
assessment (SEA). It establishes the effectiveness of SEA through
comparative studies of practice in three countries: Britain, the
Netherlands and Germany. The author shows that use of SEA is
widespread but far from systematic. He demonstrates the advantages
of adopting a systematic application of a comprehensive form of SEA
derived from all the major current approaches. Only once this
approach is fully understood and systematically applied will all
the full benefits be achieved and environmental impacts be
minimalized.
Since becoming editor-in-chief in 2009 Thomas Fischer has overseen
the publication of 22 issues of the Journal of Environmental and
Policy Management. This wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume
presents a selection of papers from this period.A number of these
papers discuss the topics of the journal's special issues. The
others offer various international and comparative perspectives on
the development and implementation of environmental assessment (EA)
and strategic environmental assessment (SEA). By drawing on the
expertise of a number of global experts, this comprehensive volume
considers the challenges, successes and progress of EA/SEA policy
and management since 2009. This volume is perfect for students and
researchers interested in environmental policy and its
implementation and management.
This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the
most important canonical and cutting-edge works in Environmental
Assessment. International in scope, the materials gathered cover
the background of Environmental Assessment and the different
possible approaches. The collection showcases the important
historical material alongside current methods and theory.
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