Integrating strategic environmental assessment into spatial planning in Egypt

Hegazy, Ibrahim

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2015.05.001

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“…Nevertheless, at the project level, it is mandatory to conduct complete EIA studies under the current legislation, but there is no regulation mandating an Environmental Assessment (EA) for urban plans or programs. A similar scenario in which environmental issues were only considered at the project level was reported in the case of Egypt by Hegazy [ 24 ].…”

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The Potential of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Improve Urban Planning in Sierra Leone

Mabey

Sundufu

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a proactive and collaborative method for environmental management designed to integrate environmental considerations into decision-making; and it is good for Sierra Leone. To understand whether SEA would be useful in the context of Sierra Leone, the authors interviewed 64 out of 78 experts face to face from March to July 2019. In addition, government policies and regulatory documents on environmental management and sustainable development, published articles served as secondary sources of data. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. These Sierra Leonean experts agreed that SEA would be useful for integration and achievement of improved sustainable urban planning strategies. However, the barriers identified to integrating SEA include: not addressing environmental issues during the preparation of policies and programs, insufficient political will, the absence of clear objectives, targets, principles and approaches, overlapping mandates among environmental institutions, and inadequate institutional coordination and non-integrated development framework as barriers to integrating SEA into their work. The study shows that SEA has the potential to have a positive impact on environmental concerns in decision-making, but it would need to be supported by stronger political will, legal frameworks, and improved technical guidance from the policy perspective. Moreover, we propose a conceptual framework for the inclusion of SEA into the urban planning process in Sierra Leone.

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confidence: 92%

The Potential of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Improve Urban Planning in Sierra Leone

Mabey

Sundufu

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…EIA is implemented at the downstream phase when economic and technological feasibility studies have finished, while SEA is at the upstream stage when spatial planning still being discussed. In other word, SEA is addressed to formulate policies, plans, and programs while EIA is adopted at project level [3]. The purpose of applying SEA is to integrate environmental aspects at the earliest stage of planning.…”

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The Powerless of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): A Case Studies of North Kendeng Mountain Area, Central Java, Indonesia

2019

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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a new instrument of environmental management stipulated by Act 32 of 2009 regarding Environmental Protection and Management. This study observes the response of relevant government regarding the result of SEA studies. In August 2016, President Jokowi governed to conduct SEA for North Kendeng Mountain area due to the conflict between the government and investor preferring the utilization of this area for mining and local people demanding for conservation. North Kendeng mountain area is rich in limestone potentially utilized for cement, cosmetics, paint, and other commercial uses. However, this area is also storage for water that has been widely utilized for potable water and irrigation for local people. SEA is expected to mediate the conflict by recommending the area for exploitation and conservation. All relevant provincial governments: Central and East Java, and regencies: Grobogan, Pati, Rembang, Blora, Tuban, Bojonegoro and Lamongan agreed to follow up President’s instruction. However, after the EIA studies finished, the provincial government of Central Java on their revision on spatial planning did not incorporate the EIA studies. The Regency government of Pati also refused to incorporate the EIA studies. Institutional and substantial arrangement are required to make SEA studies workable and implementable.

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“…Other examples of the successful application of SEA in spatial planning can be found in Austria (Stoeglehner, 2010), the Czech Republic (Smutný, 2014), the province of Naples in southern Italy (Geneletti et al, 2007) and Egypt (Hegazy, 2015). In South Africa, the coastal city of Durban implemented the Climatic Future for Durban Program, an integrated assessment framework that will provide strategic input on the continuing development of the city's Integrated Development Plan and allow Ethekwini Municipality to factor climate change concerns into its long-term planning and budgeting (Roberts, 2008).…”

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The potential of strategic environmental assessment to reduce disaster risks through climate change adaptation in the coastal zone of Bangladesh

Islam

Zhang

2019

IJCCSM

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyze the potential of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to mainstream consideration of climate change adaptation (CCA) in Bangladesh, particularly for the coastal zone, to improve disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies in this region. Continuing climate risks require adaptation at all levels of society. The densely populated and resource-rich coastal zone of Bangladesh is at risk to the impacts of climate change.Design/methodology/approach -This research is based on secondary sources (gray and published literature) of information on climate change impacts on the coastal zone of Bangladesh. The sources include research reports, online publications, governmental reports, scientific journals, international reports, books, journal articles and other academic resources on SEA, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and DRR. In addition to examining SEA in Bangladesh, this paper investigates SEA cases in different countries to obtain insights from the successful application of SEA for CCA.Findings -The paper draws on several cases from different countries demonstrating that SEA has a significant potential to coordinate CCA objectives. The findings reveal that the appropriate use of SEA can enable DRR through CCA.Originality/value -This study argues that SEA has a potential role in supporting CCA.

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Integrating strategic environmental assessment into spatial planning in Egypt

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

The Potential of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Improve Urban Planning in Sierra Leone

The Potential of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Improve Urban Planning in Sierra Leone

The Powerless of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): A Case Studies of North Kendeng Mountain Area, Central Java, Indonesia

The potential of strategic environmental assessment to reduce disaster risks through climate change adaptation in the coastal zone of Bangladesh

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