2nd Edition

Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action

By Riki Therivel Copyright 2010
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

This practical guide, written by a practitioner for practitioners, presents a coherent and straightforward 'how-to-do-it' approach to the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process. Part one provides an overview of the aims, principles, advantages and problems of SEA as well as looking at key SEA regulations and their requirements. Part two examines the SEA process in considerable... Read more
Part 1: Introducing Strategic Environmental Assessment  Introduction.  Strategic Environmental Assessment: An Overview SEA in Plan-Making.  Three SEA Systems: United States, Europe, China  Part 2: The SEA Process Setting the Context for SEA  Describing the Environmental Baseline.  Identifying Problems.  Links to Other Strategic Actions.  Identifying Alternatives.  Predicting Impacts.  Evaluating and Mitigating Impacts.  Documentation, Implementation and Monitoring  Part 3: Assuring SEA Effectiveness  Ensuring that the SEA is Effective and Resourcing It. Appendices.  Index

Biography

Riki Therivel is a partner with Levett-Therivel sustainability consultants and a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University's School of the Built Environment. She is the co-author of The Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment (1996) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (1992).