Föreläsning 11 SEA PublicParticipation Flashcards
How do Strategy (Policies, Plans, Programs, and Legislation) impact the built environment?
Strategy, including policies, plans, programs, and legislation, shapes the built environment by guiding development priorities, setting building standards, influencing land use planning, promoting environmental protection, determining transportation infrastructure, addressing social equity, and enhancing climate resilience.
For example through setting strategies for climate changing adaption and set requirements on building design or infrastructure. In the same time add policies aimed to promote social equity and add affordable housing.
What is environmental assessment? And what is SEA and EIA?
Environmental assessment ensures that decisions consider environmental implications beforehand. It involves analyzing likely environmental effects, documenting them in a report, conducting public consultations, considering feedback in the final decision-making, and informing the public afterward.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) are for individual projects and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for broader plans, programs, and policies to form a comprehensive strategy for environmental assessment.
What are the steps in a SEA process?
Screening, Environmental report, informed and consulted, results of the consultations are taken into account before adoption, monitoring.
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) procedure involves a screening process to determine if plans or programs will have significant environmental effects. If significant effects are likely, an environmental report is prepared, identifying impacts and reasonable alternatives. Public and environmental authority consultation occurs, including cross-border consultation for impacts in other Member States. The environmental report and consultation results inform plan adoption. After adoption, authorities inform the public and monitor environmental effects to identify unforeseen adverse impacts early.
What is the SEA EC Directive?
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directive requires the assessment of environmental impacts in plans and programs before adoption, with public and environmental authority participation. After adoption, transparent communication ensures public awareness of the decision-making process. In cases of transboundary impacts, affected Member States and citizens are informed and given the opportunity to provide feedback. SEA promotes transparency and sustainability by engaging the public and integrating environmental concerns into planning.
How SEA and EIA Interact?
At the national level, SEA is conducted to identify options and assess their impacts regarding technologies for final waste treatment and total treatment capacities. At the regional level, SEA evaluates locational options and their environmental consequences for treatment sites. Finally, at the project level, project-level Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are tiered to earlier SEA assessments and decisions.
Who is involved in public participation and what are the stages?
Public participation in the built environment involves engaging community members, stakeholders, and residents in decision-making processes related to urban planning, architecture, and infrastructure development.
Involved citizens, Politicians, Administrators, Entrepreneurs, Interest groups
Stages:
1. Accessible Information: Providing clear, understandable information about proposed projects, including plans, renderings, and impact assessments, to facilitate informed participation.
2. Consultation: Seeking input from stakeholders, including local businesses, organizations, and advocacy groups, to ensure diverse perspectives are considered in decision-making
3. Decision influencing refers to the process of shaping or affecting the decisions made by individuals, groups, or organizations.
What are the benefits of public participation?
Diverse Perspectives: Exchange of viewpoints aids in comprehensive decision-making.
Innovation: Involvement fosters creativity and new solutions.
Dialogue: Open discussion promotes understanding and collaboration.
Future Engagement: Sets the stage for ongoing collaboration.
Knowledge Enhancement: Public input fills gaps and enriches decision-making.
Broadened Knowledge Base: Overall, it leads to informed and inclusive decisions.
What is the stakeholder power matrix?
The Stakeholder Power Matrix categorizes stakeholders based on their influence and interest in a project. Stakeholders are grouped into four quadrants: high power, high interest; high power, low interest; low power, high interest; and low power, low interest. By understanding where stakeholders fall within this matrix, project managers can develop appropriate strategies for engagement, communication, and management to ensure successful project outcomes and stakeholder relationships.
What are the limitations of SEA?
It’s used in many countries to evaluate the environmental impacts of large-scale plans, programs, and policy measures before they’re implemented. The challenge lies in implementing SEA effectively and ensuring there’s enough political support and resources to carry out the process meaningfully.
- Data collection is complex: SEAs cover large areas - sometimes several countries and large number of alternatives.
- Uncertainty regarding future socio-economic
conditions and techologies. - Strategic action may have no formal authorisation
stage. SEA is inherently a political process. E.g.
who decides whether a country needs nuclear
energy and how? - SEA as a concept is not yet politically accepted.
