Progress in Environmental Assessment Policy, and Management Theory and Practice 2015
DOI: 10.1142/9781783268382_0005
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Effectiveness of Policy Level Environmental and Sustainability Assessment: Challenges and Lessons from Recent Practice

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“…The site-related nature of mineral and alternative energy uses are typically addressed by an approach based on project EIA and sectoral SEA to assess and address the risks of establishment; operational and accident contingency management and reasonable provisions for removal and remediation in the event of accident or at project conclusion. Eales and Sheate (2011), reviewing the effectiveness of policy-level environmental and sustainability assessment, have noted a continuing need to go beyond the 'business-as-usual' approach of simply seeking to balance environmental, social and economic factors. They noted that the most commonly used definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission (WCED 1987) but pointed out that its second sentence and key concepts that clearly address the strategic social and environmental imperatives underlying sustainable development are less frequently quoted.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The site-related nature of mineral and alternative energy uses are typically addressed by an approach based on project EIA and sectoral SEA to assess and address the risks of establishment; operational and accident contingency management and reasonable provisions for removal and remediation in the event of accident or at project conclusion. Eales and Sheate (2011), reviewing the effectiveness of policy-level environmental and sustainability assessment, have noted a continuing need to go beyond the 'business-as-usual' approach of simply seeking to balance environmental, social and economic factors. They noted that the most commonly used definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission (WCED 1987) but pointed out that its second sentence and key concepts that clearly address the strategic social and environmental imperatives underlying sustainable development are less frequently quoted.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite its reputation, studies have shown that in practice appraisal across all governance levels has not consistently operated in a way that promotes integration, either of environmental knowledge into appraisal, or of appraisal into policy, or of policies or sectors themselves (see, e.g. Eales and Sheate, 2011;Morgan, 2012;Turnpenny et al, 2009). We argue that this disparity between the positive reputation of the EU and UK and the more negative critiques of practice make an ideal case study for exploring the challenges faced by appraisal as an important tool for IG.…”
Section: Ig and Policy Appraisalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…uncertainty, ambiguity and ignorance are assumed to be limited or non-existent). Taking the first of these assumptions, the evidence that objective information is transferred via IA into policy is somewhat limited (Wood and Jones, 1997;Cashmore et al, 2004;Cashmore et al, 2009;Elling, 2009;Van Buuren and Nooteboom, 2009;Eales and Sheate, 2011). More and more authors argue that decision-making is not rational and that IA, for example, has considerably more roles than simply information provision (see, for example, Lawrence, 2000;Leknes, 2001;Bond, 2003;Bekker et al, 2004;Cashmore, 2004;Owens et al, 2004).…”
Section: Impact Assessment Theory and Uncertaintymentioning
confidence: 99%