Strategic Environmental Assessment In Action 2nd 2nd Riki Therivel by Riki Therivel 9781844070411, 9781844070428, 9781849772655, 1844070417, 1844070425, 1849772657 instant download after payment.

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a process that aims to integrate environmental and sustainability considerations in strategic decision-making. It has the potential to make the world a greener and more liveable place. It also has the potential to be a dreary and resource-intensive formality, applied in a grudging minimalist fashion by people who just hate having to do it, adding still further to some great useless administrative burden paid for by hapless taxpayers.
This book is intended to help people to set up good SEA systems and carry out effective, efficient SEAs: it is a manual for SEA. It presents straightforward SEA approaches and techniques that achieve the objectives of SEA - green, equitable - but with a minimal burden.
The book focuses in particular on the implementation of the European Union Directive 2001/42/EC ‘on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment (known as the SEA Directive) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on SEA, but the approaches it explains are applicable to SEAs worldwide.