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A Decision-Maker'S Tool For Sustainability-Centred Strategic Environmental Assessment

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  • PETER CROAL

    (Canadian International Development Agency, Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0G4, Canada)

  • ROBERT B. GIBSON

    (Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada)

  • CHARLES ALTON

    (Strategic Environmental Consulting, New Port Richey, FL 34655, USA)

  • SUSIE BROWNLIE

    (deVilliers Brownlie Associates, 21 Menin Avenue, Claremont, 7708, South Africa)

  • ERIN WINDIBANK

    (Secretariat, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada)

Abstract

This paper outlines a Decision-Maker's Tool (DM Tool), designed to guide practitioners and their inter-disciplinary teams through a typical strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process. While SEA properly includes post-decision follow-up, the DM Tool covers the SEA process up to the creation of a Briefing Note for the decision maker. Together, use of the DM Tool and the Briefing Note should facilitate positive contributions to sustainability through well considered and aligned policies, plans and programmes (PPPs), by enhancing the comprehensiveness, consistency, clarity, accessibility and credibility of decision making information.The discussion presumes that the SEA is central to the PPP development process, rather than being a separate exercise. The DM Tool and Briefing Note are designed to recommend PPP action based on clearly stated needs and purposes, addressing the key issues, and application of explicit sustainability criteria in the comparative evaluation of feasible alternatives. Particular attention is paid to recognising trade-offs and residual risks, and presenting all this information concisely for the decision maker.

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  • Peter Croal & Robert B. Gibson & Charles Alton & Susie Brownlie & Erin Windibank, 2010. "A Decision-Maker'S Tool For Sustainability-Centred Strategic Environmental Assessment," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 12(01), pages 1-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:12:y:2010:i:01:n:s1464333210003498
    DOI: 10.1142/S1464333210003498
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