Recognizing the institutional dimension of strategic environmental assessment

Jiliberto, Rodrigo

doi:10.3152/146155111x12959673795921

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“…Faced with an IA for a plan or project that has fuzzy, 'intangible' or complex outcomes, hierarchical decision-makers may attempt to invoke urgency ('no time for dialogue, we have to act now') or fragment a project which results in neglecting cumulative effects (for example, ecosystem interactions or social subsistence), complexity, unpredictability and uncertainty. Such a rational approach may conflict with a more strategic approach to, for instance, SEA: 'What makes SEA practice fuzzy is not the context per se but the use of technical-rational evaluation models in decision-making contexts that do not behave according to those rationales' (Jiliberto 2012). The rational approach builds on the assumption that there is one single and central decision-maker and a clearly defined decision process, that the consequences of decisions can be reasonably predicted and that providing information about consequences of a decision is enough to make 'better' decisions (Monteiro & Partidário 2012).…”

Section: Ia Data Collection and Data Use: Governance Numbers And Knomentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Jiliberto (2012) argues that SEA indeed helps to improve the legitimacy of strategic decisions and broadens the range of actors participating in them, that it promotes a strategic view in recognising society's environmental values and that it helps to improve the quality and accountability of their decisions, while respecting the existing legal framework and equality for all parties in disputes. These are indeed elements of the 'New Public Management' governance mixture which dominated in many (Western) countries around 2000, around which time the European SEA Directive was established.…”

Section: Ia Contributions To Accommodate Governance Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Owl meets beehive: how impact assessment and governance relate

Meuleman

2014

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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This article analyses the complex relationship between impact assessments (IAs) of all types (such as comprehensive, regulatory, economic, social or environmental IAs) and their governance environment, using an analytical framework based on the concepts of governance styles and metagovernance. It is argued that each governance system builds on specific values, traditions and history and produces specific mixtures of hierarchical, network and market styles of governance (with or without an explicit metagovernance approach). Although governance can be considered as a non-normative perspective on polity and politics, the normative dimension of governance practice results in, for example, conflicting convictions about which type of knowledge or 'evidence' is valid for IA processes. This is particularly relevant because IAs have an important role in improving the knowledge base of governance. The concrete governance system in a specific country or other administrative entity influences the design and governance of IA systems positively or negatively, which leads to a variety of challenges. The conclusion is drawn that understanding the governance context and its dynamics can help improving IA governance.

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Section: Ia Data Collection and Data Use: Governance Numbers And Knomentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Ia Contributions To Accommodate Governance Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Owl meets beehive: how impact assessment and governance relate

Meuleman

2014

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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“…La demanda de focalización de una EAE centrada en el proceso de decisión generó que académicos y practicantes de EAE tuviesen que internarse en el mundo de la teoría de la decisión y de las políticas públicas, que largamente ha identificado la ausencia de un modelo de toma de decisiones racional en materia de políticas públicas que avalase el intento racionalizador de toda EAE (Dalkmann y Nilsson, 2001;Jiliberto, 2010 , 2000). Esto ha puesto en discusión la supuesta racionalidad técnica del instrumento y obligado a encontrarle otros propósitos, de naturaleza más institucional (Jiliberto, 2011;Wallington, Bina y Thissen, 2008).…”

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Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica: una contribución a la sostenibilidad del desarrollo turístico

Herrera

2015

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ResumenLa Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica (EAE) se puede considerar en la actualidad una herramienta consolidada de la política ambiental a nivel internacional. El estado del arte demuestra que, a pesar de su creciente aplicación a escala internacional, algunos aspectos conceptuales en torno a esta herramienta siguen abiertos y condicionan en conjunto la práctica en EAE. Se sostiene aquí que en la raíz del problema está la falta de una identificación precisa del objeto de análisis diferencial de la EAE con respecto a su antecesora la EIA de proyectos. Se propone en este artículo una definición del objeto de análisis de la EAE y se facilita una aplicación práctica de ese nuevo objeto de análisis aplicado a las políticas de desarrollo turístico.Letras Verdes. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioambientales N.° 18, septiembre 2015, pp. 159-183

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“…The first definitions of effectiveness stated that SEAs should lead to changes in PPPs. As it evolved, the definition of effectiveness went from "changes in PPPs" to the importance of an "SEA process" that provides a strategic and proactive interaction of the environmental aspects with the decision-making process (Jiliberto, 2011).…”

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Key Recent Experiences in the Application of Sea in Brazil

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J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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One of the requirements for a good Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is its capacity to adjust itself to the planned decision-making process. This paper presents recent experiences involving the application of SEA in Brazil in three different contexts. In the first case, an SEA was conducted to meet a request of the Ministry of Tourism for information to prepare the Development Plan for Sustainable Tourism in the North Coast. The second case is an initiative undertaken by the Secretary of Environment of the State of Bahia for the construction of a seaport-industrial complex in the region of Ilh eus (Bahia). Finally, an SEA commissioned by a group of environmental NGOs to assess options for the development of a mining-metal and chemical-gas complex in the Pantanal Region near the Bolivian and Paraguayan border is presented. The paper highlights the differences in the contexts of the three studies (responsibilities in the decision-making process, stages of the planning process, etc.) as well as in their methodological approaches. Difficulties, gaps, advances and findings in each case are also analysed to assess the effectiveness of each SEA.

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Recognizing the institutional dimension of strategic environmental assessment

Cited by 28 publications

References 15 publications

Owl meets beehive: how impact assessment and governance relate

Owl meets beehive: how impact assessment and governance relate

Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica: una contribución a la sostenibilidad del desarrollo turístico

Key Recent Experiences in the Application of Sea in Brazil

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