STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
A Sourcebook & Reference Guide to International Experience

Barry Dalal-Clayton and Barry Sadler

• The only comprehensive international sourcebook of SEA principles, approaches and instruments with coverage of all major industrialized countries including the US, the UK/Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and Korea and 50+ transitional and developing countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Pacific
• The essential reference for all impact assessment practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, aid and development agencies and funders
• Written by two world-renowned practitioners with support from the OECD, UNEP and IIED

DESCRIPTION

This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA), describing trends in application and experience and practice across the globe in a variety of agencies and contexts. Drawing on published and unpublished material, and contributions from a wide range of individual experts, organizations and agencies, it provides an unparalleled and invaluable understanding of what constitutes SEA and how and when it can be applied. The first part provides an international review of experience, practice, terminology, approaches and tools of SEA, covering developed, transitional and developing countries. The second part provides a collection of case studies illustrating SEA practice in a range of countries and contexts as well as a full set of references and a number of appendices.

CONTENTS

SEA in International Perspective · Surveying the Field of SEA · SEA Experience in Developed Countries · SEA Experience in Development Cooperation · SEA Experience in Countries in Transition · SEA Experience in Developing Countries · Advances and Conclusions · Appendices, Bibliography, Index

MARKETING

Reviews in major journals in planning impact assessment, resource management Marketed through OECD, UNEP, IIED and IAIA networks, listservs and websites and to professionals, academics and regulators through industry-specific media and conferences

1-84407-179-0 | Paperback | £24.95
1-84407-178-2 | Hardback | £85.00
234x156mm | 416 pages | May 2005

Figures, tables, index

TERRITORY: World (Pb02/Hb04)

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Planning/ Geography/ Natural resource management

READERSHIP: Practitioners, academics, policy-makers and regulators in environmental impact and strategic environmental assessment; upper-level and postgraduate students in land use planning, environmental science, geography and natural resource management

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Barry Dalal-Clayton is Director for Strategies, Planning and Assessment at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and author of Sustainable Development Strategies (Earthscan, 2002). Barry Sadler is an Environmental Impact Assessment Advisor to UNEP and contributor to Assessing Impact (Earthscan, 2004)

Published with OECD, UNEP and IIED