Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9780821367636
Series Statement:
Directions in Development
Content:
Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on the strengths and weaknesses of current SEA methodology. It then goes on to analyze how policies are formulated and implemented and proposes a new conceptual framework for conducting SEA of policies that potentially could be more useful in influencing decision makers to integrate environmental sustainability considerations into policy formulation and implementation.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Environment and Development -- About the Editors and Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 SEA and Policy Formulation -- Introduction -- Evolution of SEA -- Impact-Based SEA -- Applying SEA to Plans and Programs -- Applying SEA to Policies -- Toward an "Institution-Centered" SEA Approach -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Policy-Level Strategic Environmental Assessments: Process Integration and Incentives of Policy Proponents -- Introduction -- Case Studies -- Argentina: Policy Reform in Water and Sanitation Sectors -- Canada: SEA for NAFTA -- The Czech Republic: Tourism Policy -- The Slovak Republic: Energy Policy 2000 -- South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Trade and Industrial Development Policy -- Analysis of Case Studies -- Results Viewed in the Context of Integration -- Integration and Concerns about Watering Down Attention to the Environment -- Assessments of SEA Requirements for Policy Proposals in Canada and the Netherlands -- Audit of Canadian Cabinet Directive on SEA (2004) -- Evaluation of the Netherlands' E-Test -- Lessons Learned -- Conclusions -- Fostering Interaction between SEA Teams and Policy Designers -- Creating Incentives for Compliance -- Fostering Organizational Learning -- Gaining High-Level Commitment -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3 The Continuous Process of Policy Formation -- Introduction -- Policy Formation as Decision Making -- The Rational Decision-Making Model -- Assumption about information -- Assumption of unitary actors -- Assumptions about the nature of the problem -- The Garbage Can Model of Decision Making -- The garbage can model and policy making -- Policy formation and path dependency -- Limitations of and lessons from the garbage can model -- Policy Formation as a Continuous Process -- Managing Uncertainty -- Managing Ambiguity.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821367629
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strategic environmental assessment for policies Washington, DC : World Bank, 2008 ISBN 9780821367629
Language:
English
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