A DECISION-MAKER'S TOOL FOR SUSTAINABILITY-CENTRED STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT

Peter Croal (), Robert B. Gibson (), Charles Alton (), Susie Brownlie () and Erin Windibank ()
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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

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), 2010, vol. 12, issue 01, 1-27

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.

Keywords: Strategic environmental assessment; sustainability assessment; decision making; process design; evaluation criteria; alternatives; trade-offs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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