Strategic Environmental Assessment for development programs and sustainability transition in the Colombian post-conflict context

Dávila, Juanita Gallego; Azcárate, Juan; Kørnøv, Lone

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2018.10.002

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“…Our finding on insufficient data availability is similar to that of Xia et al [76]; Ofori [39], who reported inadequate data as a challenge facing the environmental assessment process in China and Ghana respectively. Our finding on inadequate funding as a challenge to implementing the environmental assessment process has also been shown in Columbia and Vietnam [47,77]. Regarding the challenges facing the mitigation process in the environmental assessment of land use planning, our study identifies no strong environmental agencies, lack of monitoring by the agencies, lack of good predictions, overlapping functions between the government ministries and agencies, lack of understanding of the process, and corruption during implementation (Table 8).…”

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confidence: 67%

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

et al. 2021

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Land use planning as strategic instruments to guide urban dynamics faces particular challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa, where urgent interventions are required to improve urban and environmental sustainability. This study investigated and identified key challenges of land use planning and its environmental assessments to improve the urban and environmental sustainability of city-regions. In doing so, we combined expert interviews and questionnaires with spatial analyses of urban and regional land use plans, as well as current and future urban land cover maps derived from Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing. By overlaying and contrasting land use plans and land cover maps, we investigated spatial inconsistencies between urban and regional plans and the associated urban land dynamics and used expert surveys to identify the causes of such inconsistencies. We furthermore identified and interrogated key challenges facing land use planning, including its environmental assessment procedures, and explored means for overcoming these barriers to rapid, yet environmentally sound urban growth. The results illuminated multiple inconsistencies (e.g., spatial conflicts) between urban and regional plans, most prominently stemming from conflicts in administrative boundaries and a lack of interdepartmental coordination. Key findings identified a lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment and inadequate implementation of land use plans caused by e.g., insufficient funding, lack of political will, political interference, corruption as challenges facing land use planning strategies for urban and environmental sustainability. The baseline information provided in this study is crucial to improve strategic planning and urban/environmental sustainability of city-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the Global South, where land use planning faces similar challenges to address haphazard urban expansion patterns.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 67%

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

et al. 2021

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“…The program places significant importance on social inclusion and active participation, with a specific focus on empowering marginalized groups and addressing gender and ethnic disparities (Tovar et al 2023). Furthermore, PDET incorporates measures to promote environmental sustainability, advocating responsible management of natural resources (Dávila et al 2019).…”

Section: Development Plan With a Territorial Focus (Pdet)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Los nadies y las nadies: The Effect of Peacebuilding on Political Behavior in Colombia

Gelvez,

Johnson

2023

Lat Am Polit Soc

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How do peacebuilding institutions affect political behavior? This article studies the historic victory of the Colombian left in the 2022 presidential elections in light of the implementation of local peacebuilding programs through the 2016 Peace Accords. Using a quasi-experimental design, we show that the Development Plans with a Territorial Focus (PDET), a central component of the 2016 Peace Accords between the government and the FARC, increased the vote share for the leftist coalition, Pacto Histórico, in the 2022 elections by increasing voter turnout in PDET regions. In a departure from existing literature, we find that the explanatory effect of violence on vote share is significantly reduced when we include an indicator for PDET implementation and additional covariates. While there is a substantial body of work examining the effects of conflict violence and the presence of armed actors on elections, there has been relatively little focus on how the peacebuilding has affected vote choice and political behavior. We see our project as a bridge to fill this gap in the literature.

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“…The final document for the end of the Colombian conflict [1] is composed by various agreements focused to contribute to the implementation of the constitutional rights of the Colombian people so it is very important the citizen participation in the construction of the peace, likewise, in the planning, realization and the monitoring of plans, programs and works in the territories, that guarantees the socio-environmental sustainability, infrastructure development, effective use of rural land and land use planning [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

Systems Dynamics and the Analytical Network Process as A methodology for the Evaluation and Prioritization of Green Projects: A New Proposal that Involves Participative Integration

Castrillón-Gómez¹,

Tost²,

Valencia-Calvo³

2022

Preprint

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Citizen participation has always been of vital importance in decision-making processes and, likewise, joint work in the formulation and execution of projects that respond to territorial needs. This in order to ensure the best impact of public or private investment, optimizing the result and community articulation. For this reason, this investigation proposes a methodology of evaluation and prioritization of projects based on an approach integrated between the modelling in dynamics systems (SDM) and the Analytical process network (ANP), in which the citizen factors are used as qualitative and quantitative variables inside the posed balance sheet model. This is how the model developed by the Stella Architect software, it offers to the decision makers approximate information about the reality of the community, especially those who were affected by the Colombian conflict and where the expectations of a comprehensive repair could disrupt the socioeconomic system and reveal more pressing interests than those of the central government. The methodology is described by the information gotten through the participatory workshops done in the California county that belongs to the Magdalena region, this is a very affected region by the conflict in Colombia. The investigation results confirm the useful of, first of all, the use of the modelling as an information-generating tool by allowing the simulation of relevant variables in the evaluation and prioritization of projects at different moments of time and, in second place, use the knowledge of the experts that expose the ANP method for establishing the importance of each variable compared with other variables and, likewise of each project compared to the rest of the alternatives in each of the different instants of time in which the evaluation is carried out, given that the results could change in any time, the official ranking is showed after an optimization process with partial results.

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Strategic Environmental Assessment for development programs and sustainability transition in the Colombian post-conflict context

Cited by 15 publications

References 14 publications

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Los nadies y las nadies: The Effect of Peacebuilding on Political Behavior in Colombia

Systems Dynamics and the Analytical Network Process as A methodology for the Evaluation and Prioritization of Green Projects: A New Proposal that Involves Participative Integration

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