Impact assessment has been in place for over 40years and is now practised in some form in
all but two of the world's nations. In this paper we reflect on the state of the art of impact …

Increasing emphasis has been placed in recent years on transitioning strategic
environmental assessment (SEA) away from its environmental impact assessment (EIA) …

Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making
will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer s book on SEA; and students, teachers and …

The European Union (EU) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive which was
introduced some 25 years ago has had a major impact on decision-making practices in EU …

Could the theory of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) be ahead of its time and
decoupled from its practice? This paper evolved in search for this leading research question …

The expectations of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) regarding the integration of
environmental and sustainability concerns into policy-making are high. Although evidence of …

Has strategic environmental assessment (SEA) finally reached a point of maturity in
Canada? Or, is it still stumbling to find its place in the impact assessment family? Strategic …

Impact Assessment (IA) has been adopted worldwide typically to ensure the achievement of
its goal (s), which might be one or more of sustainable development, environmental policy …

Evaluating the substantive effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is vital
in order to know to what extent the tool fulfills its purposes and produces expected results …

China is an illustrative—and extreme—case of the difficulties of balancing the pursuit of
economic, social, and environmental objectives. In 2003 it adopted a form of Strategic …