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  • Strategic environmental assessment of policies and plans: Legislation and Implementation

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    Buckley, R
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    Buckley, Ralf
    Year published
    2000
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    Abstract
    Governments can, and commonly do, adopt policies whose environmental implications completely overshadow the impacts of individual development projects as assessed by projectscale environmental impact assessment. Environmental assessment (EA) of government policies is therefore as important to sustainable development as EA of projects. One way to achieve routine policy EA is through a formal legal framework which covers: definition of a policy; screening criteria and exemptions; public advertisement, exhibition and submission; technical standards for environmental assessment; substantive criteria for weighing public environmental ...
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    Governments can, and commonly do, adopt policies whose environmental implications completely overshadow the impacts of individual development projects as assessed by projectscale environmental impact assessment. Environmental assessment (EA) of government policies is therefore as important to sustainable development as EA of projects. One way to achieve routine policy EA is through a formal legal framework which covers: definition of a policy; screening criteria and exemptions; public advertisement, exhibition and submission; technical standards for environmental assessment; substantive criteria for weighing public environmental costs against public benefits; and provisions for third-party standing. The aims of such a framework would be to make policy EA a routine part of policy formulation.
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    Journal Title
    Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
    Volume
    18
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.3152/147154600781767439
    Copyright Statement
    © 2000 Beech Tree Publishing. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Urban and regional planning
    History, heritage and archaeology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/3240
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