Strategic Environmental Assessment - Experience, Status and Directions

摘要

SEA refers to a formal, systematic process to analyze and address the environmental effects of policies, plans programmes and other strategic initiatives.1 This process applies to development-related initiatives that are known to have significant environmental effects, notably those initiated individually in sectors, transport and energy, or collectively through spatial or land use change.2 As with EIA, SEA can and should be interpreted broadly, for example to include social, health and other consequences of a proposed action and their relationship to sustainable development concepts and strategies.