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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Strategic environmental assessment"”.
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Strategic environmental assessment approach: governance and planning
… within the topics of regional governance and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Compared to its relationship with governance the SEA may be defined as a set of rules, principles, techniques and tools with the function of supporting the decision making process. The evaluation process is …
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Strategic Environmental Assessment for Municipal Water Demand Based on Climate Change
… quantifying municipal water demands through the assessment of climatic factors, using a combination of a Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) technique, three hybrid computational intelligence algorithms and an ANN model. These hybrid algorithms include a Lightning Search Algorithm (LSA-ANN), a …
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Re-conceptualising strategic environmental assessment: theoretical overview and case study from Chile
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has a prominent position in the ongoing search for instruments that can help governments and other organisations to pursue the complex goal of sustainable development. Academic literature and practitioners have devoted increasing attention to this instrument …
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Strategic Environmental Assessment: Its Potential Adoption and Use in Corporate Strategic Planning and Decision-Making
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic process for assessing and evaluating the potential environmental effects of proposed policies, plans and programmes (PPPs) and their alternatives, in order to identify and address such issues at the early (pre-project) stages of strategic …
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The potential role of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in the development of sustainable energy policies, plans and programmes for Ghana
… have affected development actions. Since these strategic level development decisions have ecological, economic and social ramifications, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has been seen as an effective tool for aligning energy sector policies, plans and programmes with sustainable …
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Improving the consideration of cumulative effects in Strategic Environmental Assessment of spatial plans: A case study in the peri-urban region of Milan
… scientific basis and institutional context of Environmental Assessment (EA) theory and practice. However, although Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has been largely recognised as one of the most appropriate procedure to support spatial and land use plans in managing CE; the advancement …
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A viabilidade ambiental de usinas hidrelétricas e a aplicação da avaliação ambiental estratégica no Brasil
… thesis promotes hydropower projects in Brazil environmental licensing procedure critical assessment, with the aim of identifying and assessing possible solutions to enhance the process, especially through Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) application to hydroelectric generation expansion …
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Development of Planning Support Systems in the European context
… planning process. The Directive 2001/42/EC on Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Directive 2007/2/EC on the development of INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe (INSPIRE) aim of improving the environmental protection implementing the sustainable principles promulgated by the …
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Challenges facing implementation of the precautionary principle in Namibian marine phosphate mining regulation
… (ALME).3 Included in the study will be an assessment of environmental protection standards, procedural safeguards and decision-making processes by the Secretariat of the Commission, with reference to the Marine Spatial Planning Initiative (MSPI) paper and the Strategic Environmental …
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A coastal zone management framework for the Erongo Region of Namibia
… actions are not integrated; and, fragmented environmental legislation which suffers from a lack of coordination. The lack of integrated planning and management has resulted in an uncoordinated and fragmented approach to coastal zone management (CZM) in the Region. Development pressure exists …
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Environmental integration in infrastructure planning: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the trans-European transport network
… in a detailed case study of the treatment of environmental risks in the policy process for the trans-European transport network.</p> <p>Key events are analysed, as a new policy discourse of European space and mobility emerges and is institutionalised in an ED policy framework. A narrative of …
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Valutazione ambientale strategica e governance territoriale: metodologie e procedure
… economic and social development as well as the environmental dimension, the analysis of the territorial governance processes requires the reconstruction of behaviour of the multiple participants, called stakehorders, which act in these processes. An important governance tool, useful in guiding …
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Declinare l'Agenda 2030: Definizione di un approccio metodologico innovativo per la Valutazione ambientale strategica integrata nei processi di pianificazione urbanistica e territoriale
… research contributes to the body of studies on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), conceptualized as a critical instrument for steering decision-making processes toward sustainability. It seeks to translate the principles enshrined in the 2030 Agenda and in national and regional …
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Integration in spatial planning : case study of the Cape Town Metropolitan spatial development framework
… the concept of integrating economic, social, environmental, demographic and political issues. High levels of poverty and previous unequal access to resources and power in South Africa emphasise the need for an integrated approach, with a critical focus on democracy, participation and …
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Towards a Multi-Party Policy Monitoring Framework for Evaluating Infrastructure Environmental Assessments on the Oak Ridges Moraine
… framework to determine if infrastructure environmental assessments on the Oak Ridges Moraine comply with the policies of the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan (ORMCP) and meet best practices of environmental assessment identified in the literature. The multi-party policy monitoring …
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The status of ecology in the British environmental impact assessment process
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a process by which the potential environmental impacts of a proposed development are assessed. An assessment of the ecological impacts of a development on ecosystems, habitats and species is required under the 1985 European Directive 85/337/EEC, which is …
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Enhancing Cultural Heritage in an Impact Assessment Process: Analysis of Experiences from the UK World Heritage Sites
… study looks at heritage performance in impact assessment (IA) practices, analysing the urban planning context and management experiences of selected urban World Heritage (WH) sites in the UK. The research develops recommendations for assessing the impact of plans, programmes and projects on …
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Towards an understanding of competing constructions of risk for impact assessment
Since the inception of the Impact Assessment (IA) tool in the late 4567s, a pivotal role has been assigned to science and expert knowledge, in a rational scientific approach to anticipating the environmental effects of proposed projects. Embedded in this philosophy is a realist interpretation of …
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Evaluating the role of spatial planning and environmental impact assessment in facilitation environmentally appropriate development : the case of the Big Bay development in Blaauwberg, Cape Town
… assesses the roles of spatial planning and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in informing appropriate development in the case of the Big Bay development. The roles considered are those that relate to the planning of the biophysical environment. The dissertation further assesses how the …
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