{"id":14033,"date":"2019-08-20T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2019-08-20T23:29:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:29:03","slug":"strategic_environmental_assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/strategic_environmental_assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<b>Strategic Environmental Assessment<\/b>\u00a0(<b>SEA<\/b>) is a systematic decision support process, aiming to ensure that environmental and possibly other sustainability aspects are considered effectively in policy, plan and program making. It\u00a0is the process by which environmental considerations are required to be fully integrated into the preparation of plans and programmes\u00a0prior to their final adoption. The objectives of\u00a0SEA\u00a0are to provide for a high level of protection of the environment and to promote sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, a SEA may be seen as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a structured, rigorous, participative, open and transparent <a href=\"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/eia-environmental-impact-assessment\/\">Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)<\/a> based process, applied particularly to plans and programmes, prepared by public planning\u00a0authorities\u00a0and at times private bodies,<\/li>\n<li>a participative, open and transparent, possibly non-EIA-based process, applied in a more flexible manner to policies, prepared by public planning authorities and at times private bodies,<sup id=\"cite_ref-auto_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>a flexible non-EIA based process, applied to legislative proposals and other policies, plans and programmes in political\/cabinet decision-making.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Effective SEA works within a structured and tiered decision framework, aiming to support more effective and efficient decision-making for sustainable development and improved governance by providing for a substantive focus regarding questions, issues and alternatives to be considered in policy, plan and programme (PPP) making.<\/p>\n<p>SEA is a legally enforced assessment procedure required by Directive 2001\/42\/EC (known as the SEA Directive).\u00a0The SEA Directive aims at introducing systematic assessment of the environmental effects of strategic land use related plans and programs. It typically applies to regional and local, development, waste and transport plans, within the European Union. Some plans, such as finance and budget plans or civil defence plans are exempt from the SEA Directive, it also only applies to plans that are required by law, which excludes national government&#8217;s plans and programs, as their plans are &#8216;voluntary&#8217;, whereas local and regional governments are usually required to prepare theirs.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5>READ MORE<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.ie\/monitoringassessment\/assessment\/sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strategic Environmental Assessment (Environmental Protection Agency)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strategic_environmental_assessment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strategic environmental assessment (Wikipedia)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planninghelp.cpre.org.uk\/planning-explained\/local-planning\/strategic-environmental-assessment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strategic environmental assessment (Planning Help\/CPRE)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategic Environmental Assessment\u00a0(SEA) is a systematic\u00a0decision support process, aiming to ensure that environmental and possibly other sustainability aspects are considered effectively in policy, plan and program making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,19],"tags":[684,326,820,193,686,687,821],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)? 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