Strategic Environmental Assessment for Transport
By: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789264188174
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology); Transportation
Description: Environmental impact assessments are an essential component of making decisions on transport infrastructure investments. Traditional procedures have proved ineffective for impacts that go beyond the scope of projects in isolation. Strategic environmental assessment has emerged in response, to address large scale effects including impacts on traffic across networks, impacts on climate change and biodiversity and the impacts of policy decisions as opposed simply to individual projects. This report examines recent experience in developing environmental assessment internationally and makes recommendations on maximising the effectiveness of this new tool.
Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Roel and Key Elements of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA); title: 3. SEA Experience and Practice; title: 4. Research on SEA; title: 5. Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Annex 1. SEA Provisions in Europe; title: Annex 2. SEA Guidance, Legislation, Case Studies, Research, and General Literature; title: 3. Transport and Environmental Reporting Mechanism for the EU (TERM)