A Strategic Advocacy Role in Sea for Sustainability

Partidário, Maria Rosário

doi:10.1142/s1464333215500155

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“…the adoption of a strategic decision-making culture and a political attitude favourable to SEA integration in decision processes (Partidário 2015). To achieve its full strategic potential, SEA needs to move away from the 'project culture' that featured this procedure as an enlarged EIA since the 1970s (Verheem & Dusik 2011;Bidstrup & Hansen 2014).…”

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“…To achieve its full strategic potential, SEA needs to move away from the 'project culture' that featured this procedure as an enlarged EIA since the 1970s (Verheem & Dusik 2011;Bidstrup & Hansen 2014). However, this move is facing resistance by practitioners who either do not perceive the useful contribution of SEA in strategic decision-making or struggle moving away from the comfort zone established by the technicalrationalist EIA model (Partidário 2015). This shift towards a strategic model of thinking implies a minor level of certainty as decisions might be reshaped and changed through the decision-making process (Mintzberg 1994).…”

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“…Such a shift calls for the adjustment of dynamics in decision-making for SEA and for the consequent update of legislation and guidance (Partidário 2012). This requires the adoption of an iterative approach that is compatible with the iterative nature of environmental management and SEA (Partidário 2015).…”

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“…Because of its inherent flexibility, this process has the capacity and the features to present a different approach to SEA, aiming to convince its users of its benefits. Partidário (1996) suggests this strategic approach develops in parallel with the process of SEA and the formation of strategies, "working through problem based learning and policy design to flexibly respond to problems" (Partidário 2015). As the first two models of SEA still seem the most common on a global scale (Lobos & Partidário 2014), scholars might facilitate this transition by accepting and spreading the idea that strategic SEA is influenced by decision-making and it therefore has to be adaptable to changing decision contexts (Partidário 2015).…”

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“…Partidário (1996) suggests this strategic approach develops in parallel with the process of SEA and the formation of strategies, "working through problem based learning and policy design to flexibly respond to problems" (Partidário 2015). As the first two models of SEA still seem the most common on a global scale (Lobos & Partidário 2014), scholars might facilitate this transition by accepting and spreading the idea that strategic SEA is influenced by decision-making and it therefore has to be adaptable to changing decision contexts (Partidário 2015). This adaptation should both address the current shifts to strategic SEA in support of decision-making, and increase SEA adaptability for future changes related to varying social, political and institutional frameworks influencing policy-making and decision-making.…”

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A limits-oriented approach to sustainable planning assessments: a comparative analysis of South East Queensland (Australia) and Lombardia (Italy)

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Sustainable development is one of the key issues facing human survival on this planet. The urban planning discipline is actively involved in fostering more feasible ways to structure human activities and their relationship with the global ecosystem's finite resources. Since sustainability has become a major issue for human kind, sustainability assessments have proliferated in different ways to integrate socio-economic prosperity and provide environmental safeguards. In theory, these assessments can contribute towards addressing the increasing threats posed by climate change and by the depletion of natural resources, by building consensus around shared strategies involving a wide range of stakeholders to address national and international sustainable development goals. In practice however, sustainability assessments are undermined by problems associated with first the policy-making processes (for example, stakeholders' involvement) and second the measurement of the impacts of policies, plans and programs (such as the definition and computation of sustainability indicators). These issues weaken community trust in sustainability assessments and reduce their efficacy. Critical research is required to explore viable solutions.The main goal of this thesis is to address the shortcomings of current procedures for sustainability assessment. A comparative case study explores differences and similarities between an Australian region (South East Queensland) and an Italian region (Lombardia), which are representative of different institutional and planning backgrounds. Methodologically, this thesis develops and applies a framework to understand how limitations within political and societal processes prevent the achievement of environmentally sustainable planning. This framework combines a 'limits-oriented approach to evolutionary ecology' (Sih & Gleeson 1995) transposed to governance and policy-making processes, and the need to pursue a sustainable use of finite natural resources as suggested by positions addressing the 'limits to growth' by Meadows et al. (1972).Overall, this thesis develops an approach to diagnose current obstacles that need to be overcome and the pathway for achieving institutionalised limits-oriented approaches for improving procedures of sustainability assessment. This 'limits-oriented' framework outlines the benefits that South East Queensland and Lombardia can achieve by optimising current practices for sustainable planning within their regional contexts. This approach explores the limiting traits that undermine the performance of sustainability assessments, and proposes ways to bridge the gaps that separate their theoretical conceptualisation from their practical implementation.The framework developed and tested through this thesis offers an analytical lens to examine how the assessment of sustainable planning is currently featured in different institutional contexts. Its experimental implementation in countries with different planning traditions provides an insight on iii how to overcome iss...

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