Strategic environmental assessment in development practice : a review of recent experience.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental impact analysis.

Strategic planning--Environmental aspects.

Strategic planning.

Sustainable development.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The principles of sustainable development play an integral role in making development assistance work at the level of policies, plans and programmes. In response to the Paris Declaration call to “… develop and apply common approaches for ‘Strategic Environmental Assessment’ at sector and national levels” among donors and partners, the Guidance on Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment was endorsed in 2006 by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, representatives of developing countries receiving aid, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank and many other agencies. Since then, a growing number of countries at all levels of development have legislation or regulations prescribing the application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)  and many more are introducing it as part of their policy tools. This is creating unique opportunities for better policy making and planning by incorporating environmental considerations into high-level decision-making and opening new mechanisms to build consensus on development priorities within governments themselves and between governments and societies. Many development co-operation agencies and their partners are already making good progress in applying SEA. This publication presents the nine most interesting case studies of SEA in progress, selected from a total 100. These nine cases highlight that SEA can:• Safeguard environmental assets for sustainable poverty reduction and development;• Build public engagement in decision making;• Prevent costly mistakes by alerting decision-makers to potentially unsustainable development options at an early stage in the decision-making process;• Speed up implementation of projects and programmes;• Facilitate co-operation around shared environmental resources and contribute to conflict prevention.

Contents:

Introduction

Policy Statement on Strategic Environmental Assessment

Executive summary

Bhutan: Strategic Environmental Assessment and environmental mainstreaming

Vietnam: Strategic Environmental Assessment on the Quang Nam Hydropower Plan

SEA in developing countries

Honduras: Strategic Environmental Assessment on Municipal Development Plans

Montenegro: Strategic Environmental Assessment on the National Spatial Plan

Conclusion

Acronyms

Annex A: Capacity development for Strategic Environmental Assessment

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Mauritius: Strategic Environmental Assessment on the sugar cane sector

Benin: Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy

Ghana: Strategic Environmental Assessment and its evolution

Sierra Leone: Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of the mining sector

Namibia: Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Millennium Challenge Programme.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-64-16674-2

OCLC:

776949892