There are currently a number of option for supporting a reduction of transport volumes. These can be summarised to include technical, regulatory, pricing-policy, infrastructure and organisational measures. The latter category includes policy, plan and programme making and impact assessment. Whilst in most countries, environmental aspects are currently assessed only at the project level in a formal manner, strategic environmental assessment (SEA) can improve overall performance at strategic levels of decision making. SEA is a systematic procedural decision making support instrument in sustainable policy, plan and programme making, aiming at an appropriate consideration of the environment. Its consistent application results in a number of potential benefits, including a systematic, wider and better consideration of effects and alternatives in proactive and efficiently tiered strategic decision making for sustainable development, complementing project EIA. Furthermore, SEA can halp reconciling goals and objectives and enhance accountability of decision makers through consultation and participation. In order to develop its potentially beneficial role fully, SEA needs to be consistently applied in the decision making hierarchy, at the levels of policies, plans and programmes. Not conducting SEA at any of these stages results in reduced SEA effectiveness. An analysis of the consideration of climate change and greenhouse gas emission targets in transport and spatial/land use policies, plans and programmes in North West England, Noord-Holland and EVR Brandenburg-Berlin leads to the conlusion that SEA is able to substantially improve performance. In this context, SEA application at the policy level plays a particular important role. It is concluded that current practice can largely be improved, if formalised SEA is conducted for policies, plans and programmes, consisting of predetermined procedural stages and allowing for widespread consultation and participation.


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    Title :

    Sustainable transport planning through strategic environmental assessment


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2002


    Size :

    14 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 33 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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