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Analysing Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) is an insightful new approach to environmental evaluation, based on decision theory, policy analysis and environmental considerations. These concepts, though not new in their own fields of application, are combined and integrated in an innovative fashion. This book presents recent research on the implementation of the ANSEA approach which aims to ensure environmental values are properly integrated into the decision-making process. ANSEA was developed to contribute to the systematic integration of environmental protection objectives in strategic decision-making which, in turn, will contribute to the promotion of sustainable development. The method can be applied to analyse how environmental and sustainability issues are addressed in decision-making processes at both the national and local level for a variety of different policies. Importantly, the focus is on evaluating the decision-making process itself, rather than the quantitative output of an assessment. With explicatory examples and practical case studies, the distinguished, interdisciplinary authors clearly illustrate how a decision-centred approach to environmental assessment can be successfully achieved.
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Preface Foreword by Riki Therivel Introduction Part I: ANSEA Theoretical Background 1. Background and Context of a Strategic Environmental Assessment 2. Setting the Ground for a New Approach to SEA 3. SEA and Decision-Making Sciences 4. ANSEA Concepts Part II: The ANSEA Approach 5. ANSEA's Steps 6. ANSEA's Principles and the Objectives of the European SEA Directive (2001/42/EC) Part III: Illustrating the ANSEA Approach in Practice 7. Introduction 8. Case Study - The German Federal Transport Infrastructure Planning (FTIP) 9. Case Study - The Urban Planning in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife Island, Spain References Index
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Edited By: Pietro Caratti, Holger Dalkman and Rodrigo Jiliberto
208 pages
'The European Directive on strategic environmental assessment requires implementing legislation and guidance in each of the European member states. Other countries worldwide are also establishing procedures for strategic environmental assessment. This very timely book on analytical strategic environmental assessment" (ANSEA) deals head-on with the decision-making systems that these regulations and guidance documents are supposed to influence. ANSEA focuses on the quality of the decision-making process rather than on the impacts of the decision; on describing the decision process rather than the output of the decisions, and on ensuring full integration of environmental values in decision-making.' - From the preface by Riki Therivel"