Strategic Environmental Assessment A Sourcebook Reference Guide To International Experience Barry Dalalclayton by Barry Dalal-clayton, Barry Sadler 9781423708797, 9781844071784, 1423708792, 1844071782 instant download after payment.

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of policies, plans and programmes is a rapidly evolving field. New approaches and areas of application are emerging all the time – particularly in the fields of development cooperation and international trade. Despite much recent progress, there is still much to do to
make SEA effective and more widely applied.
This review has been prepared in response to these trends and to support recent initiatives to address SEA frameworks and tools that can be applied by international agencies in their work. For example, the Network on
Environment and Development Cooperation (ENVIRONET) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) has established a task team on the role, scope and contribution of SEA in support of development cooperation. A major objective of this review of international experience is to provide a baseline and reference guide for developing SEA briefing papers, guidance and
other outputs under the ENVIRONET work programme.
This review also intends to support a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) programme, initiated in 2003, on integrated assessment and planning (IAP) for sustainable development. The programme aims to develop a generic framework for such planning and involves pilot applications and policy experimentation in a number of countries. It builds on earlier UNEP work on an integrated approach to environmental impact assessment (EIA)
and SEA and on integrated assessment of trade policies. We anticipate that the IAP framework will become a reference point for a shift towards applying what UNEP initially called ‘strategic integrated assessment’ or what others call sustainability impact assessment or sustainability appraisal. This ‘frontier’ end of the SEA spectrum is also a focus for the DAC ENVIRONET Task Team on SEA.