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Aleh Cherp

Professor, Coordinator of the MESPOM Consortium

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Quality review package for strategic environmental assessments of land-use plans

Author

  • Julia Bonde
  • Aleg Cherp

Summary, in English

Increasing application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of land-use plans has been accompanied by concerns about their quality. This paper suggests a tool for the systematic evaluation of the quality of SEA reports, based on criteria derived from formal SEA provisions, including the draft European Union SEA Directive, general objectives and principles of SEA and reports of good SEA practice. These criteria are reflected in 70 ‘review topics’ organised in a ‘package’, similar in its structure to the Lee-Colley EIS (environmental impact statement) Quality Review Package. The paper discusses the results of the pilot application of the review package in the UK and Sweden and concludes that it sets a sufficiently high yet practically achievable standard for SEA reports. The suggested review package can be used not only as a tool for quality control but also as a checklist in preparing SEA reports and for drafting SEA guidance.

Publishing year

2000-01-01

Language

English

Pages

99-110

Publication/Series

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volume

18

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Beech Tree Publishing

Topic

  • Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology

Keywords

  • Land-use plans
  • Quality review
  • Strategic environmental assessments

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1461-5517