Strategic Environmental Assessment implementation and effectiveness bottlenecks: Lessons from Botswana

Makaba, Lebogang Peggy; Munyati, C.

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2018.05.001

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“…To improve achieving the environmental goals of land use planning strategies, environmental assessments can be conducted using the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) or para-SEA [19][20][21][22][23][24]. The SEA is an environmental planning and management instrument used for determining and mitigating the potential environmental impacts of policies, plans, and programs at both regional and urban/local scales [24][25][26][27][28]. The para-SEA is an informal process of conducting the environmental assessment of strategic actions, whereby the administrative framework is not defined or considered and the process does not meet the formal specifications of SEA but has some of their characteristics [24].…”

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“…In some parts of the world, particularly in the European Union, the SEA process has been implemented since 2001 [37]. While implementing the SEA process in Sub-Saharan Africa, attempts were made in some countries, including Botswana [27], South Africa [38], and Ghana [39]. However, in most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, the formal SEA process has not been implemented in all sectors [40], including land use planning.…”

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“…Land use planning strategies and environmental assessments are faced with various challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa [27,[43][44][45]. Lack of financial capacities challenges land use planning in Lagos, Nigeria, and the Takoradi and Bolgatanga regions of Ghana [43,45].…”

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“…In Malawi's main urban centers, lack of human and technological capacity, corruption, and outdated legal and policy frameworks pose significant challenges to land use planning [44]. Regarding environmental assessment at the sub-regional level, a lack of legislation, inadequate awareness, and low technical standards have been shown to burden and render the SEA process in Botswana suboptimal [27]. Retief et al [38] demonstrate that a lack of focus, lack of integration with decision-making processes, and lack of assessment furthermore hinder the SEA practice in South Africa.…”

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

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

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

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“…This mineral resource balance research is related to the management of natural resources that can benefit economically and environmentally [3] as well as the continuity of community welfare [4] for the present generation and future generations [5]. The level of availability and scarcity of mineral resources gives an indication of how they should manage mineral resources to ensure sustainability and minimize environmental degradation [6][7][8].…”

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Evaluation of Potency and Mineral Reserve Balance for Sustainable Mining Management Case Study: Central Java Province of Indonesia

Bargawa¹,

Oetomo²,

Sembiring³

2019

JESE-B

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The level of availability and scarcity of resources gives an indication of how to manage scarce resources. Good mining practice supports sustainability and minimizes environmental degradation. One alternative to support the development of potential mineral resources is the study of mineral resource balances. The research objectives are: (a) to evaluate the potential of mineral resources and reserves, (b) to evaluate the production data of mineral commodities, (c) to calculate mineral reserve balance. Research methodology includes an inventory of data in the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources. Compilation of mineral resource balance adjusted to the applicable regulations. The study was conducted in the Central Java Province of Indonesia. Based on the evaluation results there were 26 mineral commodities, but there were only 12 commodities developed during 2016-2018. These resources are andesite, limestone, basalt, fill-dirt, sandstone, trass, feldspar, quartz-sand, marble, diorite stone, talk and claystone. The mineral reserve supports the construction of highways, airports and other infrastructure projects in Central Java Province of Indonesia.

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Strategic environmental assessment for low-carbon development: A case study of oil and gas planning in Tanzania

Rweyendela

Pauline

Lema

2023

Environmental Development

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Strategic Environmental Assessment implementation and effectiveness bottlenecks: Lessons from Botswana

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 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

Evaluation of Potency and Mineral Reserve Balance for Sustainable Mining Management Case Study: Central Java Province of Indonesia

Strategic environmental assessment for low-carbon development: A case study of oil and gas planning in Tanzania

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