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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EIA IN GERMANY: OUR CHILD HAS GROWN UP

WENDE, WOLFGANG; SCHOLLES, FRANK; HARTLIK, JOACHIM - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 14 (2012) 04, pp. 1250023-1

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been formally applied in Germany since 1990, and has over time developed a methodological and technical routine in environmental planning practice. It can now be considered an established instrument; nonetheless, substantial challenges to the further...

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A MULTI-VIEW EVALUATION OF THE FINNISH EIA SYSTEM: AN 18-YEAR SUCCESS STORY?

HOKKANEN, PEKKA; JANTUNEN, JORMA - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 14 (2012) 04, pp. 1250024-1

This article reviews how the Finnish EIA legislation and procedures are performing in practice, and how the goals of the EIA Act are reached. The role of EIA in planning and decision-making, and the relationship between the EIA legislation and other pieces of legislation is also evaluated....

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TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR SEA FOLLOW-UP: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND LESSONS FROM POLICY EVALUATION

PERSSON, ÅSA; NILSSON, MÅNS - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 09 (2007) 04, pp. 473-496

monitoring, evaluation, and management have been given far less attention. These stages, referred to as SEA follow-up, are … adjacent fields of EIA follow-up and policy evaluation. The directive, along with most mainstream applications of SEA, is based … of implementation gaps; a focus on performance rather than compliance; and less direct linkages between decisions and …

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CONSTRAINTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PRACTICE: A CASE STUDY OF CAMEROON

ALEMAGI, DIEUDONNE; SONDO, VENAN A.; ERTEL, JÜRGEN - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 09 (2007) 03, pp. 357-380

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) practice in Cameroon has been plagued with many constraints especially from the infrastructure and EIA resource perspective. The present legal and procedural disposition vis-à-vis EIA in Cameroon is monumental and manifest some clarity of exposition with...

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STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN FINLAND: AN EVALUATION OF THE SEA ACT APPLICATION

SÖDERMAN, TARJA; KALLIO, TUOMAS - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 11 (2009) 01, pp. 1-28

Experiences from the Finnish Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Act were studied by surveying 35 SEA processes. Integration of plan or programme preparation and assessment, organisation of assessment, public participation and consultation, treatment of alternatives, scoping, impact...

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STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND THE DEMOCRATISATION OF SPATIAL PLANNING

BONIFAZI, ALESSANDRO; REGA, CARLO; GAZZOLA, PAOLA - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 13 (2011) 01, pp. 9-37

This paper investigates the potential of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to contribute to the high-level policy objective of fostering democratisation in spatial planning. Democratic SEA is conceptualised by discussing environmental citizenship, public control over policy making, and...

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CONFRONTING SEA WITH REAL PLANNING: THE CASE OF FOLLOW-UP IN REGIONAL PLANS AND PROGRAMMES IN SWEDEN

WALLGREN, OSKAR; NILSSON, MÅNS; JONSSON, DANIEL K.; … - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 13 (2011) 02, pp. 229-250

This paper addresses the problem of "fit" between strategic environmental assessment (SEA) aims and procedures, and the planning context in which SEA is implemented. The paper approaches this problem from a bottom-up perspective, examining existing planning practices, routines and institutions...

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