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Meta-analysis of SEA's effectiveness evaluation criteria: A comparison between the Chinese and international contexts.

Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management

By considering environmental factors in the earliest stage of decision-making, strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is seen as an important preventive measure to realize sustainable development. Despite a great expansion of SEA effectiveness research in the past 10 years, no study statistically reviews how frequently the evaluation criteria are...

OECD Case Studies of Integrated Regional and Strategic Impact Assessment: What Does ‘Integration’ Look Like in Practice?...

Published in Environmental Management

Increasingly, protocols for assessing the impacts of land-uses and major resource development projects focus not only on environmental impacts, but also social and human health impacts. Regional and Strategic Environmental Assessment (RSEAs) are one innovation that hold promise at better integrating these diverse land-use values into planning, asse...

Circularity Above Linearity: Toward a Circular Mining Approach of the Planning for Mining Activities

Cities and territories are increasing ever more their attention with respect to circular industrial processes. The extraction of mining resources is one of the first steps in urban and territorial transformations, and it necessitates a step forward, beginning with the use of the entire extracted material. The paper focuses on the emerging concept o...

Evaluación ambiental estratégica aplicada al abastecimiento de alimentos y seguridad alimentaria en Bogotá d.C.

The Master Plan for Food Supply and Food Safety of Bogotá - PMASAB by its initials in Spanish, is the first level structuring instrument of the Bogota Land Management Plan, which establishes long-term objectives, policies and strategies for supply and safety food of the city. Due to the fact that the mid-term evaluation carried out to the PMASAB sh...

A limits-oriented adaptive approach for strategic environmental assessment

In the face of global environmental change, decision-makers need effective environmental assessments to shape policies and plans aiming at sustainable human development. In this paper, we propose a new approach to address the needs of Strategic Environmental Assessment. We develop a Limits-Oriented Adaptive framework that is useful not only to reco...

Urban growth monitoring, simulation and management from coastal cities management perspective using Cellular Automata, R...

Egyptian coastal cities are astonishing places for people to live. Due to lack of adequate sustainable management and governance, the coastal cities and its resources suffer from multitude of negative environmental impacts, particularly uncontrolled urban growth. By the means of Landsat satellite imagery, remote sensing and GIS, Multi-temporal and ...

Can Resilience Thinking Be Integrated into the Strategic Environmental Assessment Process?

Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management

This commentary discusses strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in the context of global environmental change and presents a brief overview of the science of social-ecological systems and the resilience thinking and practices that result from it. Resilience thinking and assessment have the potential to make a significant contribution to SEA, if ...