At the turn of the new millennium, therefore, the initial work on SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment) and transport are eliciting work to evaluate the interest, specifics and feasibility of applying this new tool when formulating transport policy; and a positive appreciation is...

Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) is must for suitable development. It provides a guideline for planning and management of environmental related projects, which possess a big challenge to the scientists, engineers, policy and and decision makers. In this paper an effort has been made to...

The preservation/restoration of natural environment is frequently entailing excessive cost (paid by people through taxation) while it is a source of additional income for both, the State and the people, due to tourism. Since the evaluation of this good cannot be in market terms, it is applied...

This report reviews the application of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to policies and draws lessons from it. The principal conclusion is that current SEA approaches, based on EIA methodology, of the sample reviewed have some influence on policy design but it is difficult to...

This paper examines how strategic environmental assessment has been practiced at the national level in China through 2005 and why it has been practiced in the manner observed. Based on literature reviews and interviews carried out in 2005 and 2006, we find that bureaucratic politics between...

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...

"Linking environmental impacts from human activities, to the economy is generally advocated. But the non-availability of actual monetary values of impacts, hinders its use in practical terms. Another problem is the poor understanding of what is available, and the very different values it...