GM0212 Strategic Environmental Assessment - Integration of Environment in Strategic Planning and Decision-Making (Preliminary)
Note: All literature seminars, group work/exercises and guest lectures are compulsory.
For dates, times and locations, please look at the course schedule on GUL
Lecture theme
GU Course introduction;
Introduction to SEA; Env problems and
Systems
Introduction to SEA
Content
Course rationale, objectives. Presentation of students, teachers, student advisor etc
Formalities and practicalities
Why SEA? Successes and failures of environmental integration in strategic actions
Introduction to systems: technical, social, environmental, economic systems
Key concepts of SEA
Literature
Therivel (2010) Chap 1-2
Rosenhead, (1989) Chap 5
Therivel (2010) Chap 1-2
OECD (2006)
How to do SEA - the SEA process (1)
Setting the context for SEA, scoping, screening, env baselines, identifying env problems Therivel (2010) Chap 3, 5-6
SEPA (2010)
How to do SEA – the SEA process (2)
SEA tools, Identifying alternatives, predicting, evaluating and mitigating env impacts,
Therivel (2010) Chap 7-9, Appendix C’
documentation, implementation, monitoring
SEPA (2010)
Applying SEA
Group exercise;
OECD (2006)
Intro to assignment: SEA applications in your country
Environmental priority setting
Rationale, methods for env priority setting (env risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, cost- Ahmed and Sanchez-Triana (2008) Ch. 4, Slunge et al in
effectiveness analysis,
World Bank 2011Wilkins (2003)
Participation, stakeholder representation
Involvement of the public, strengthening voice of the poor, constituencies, tools for
Ahmed and Sanchez-Triana (2008) Ch.5,
participation and stakeholder involvement
Slunge et al in World Bank 2011, Wilkins (2003)
Legal aspects of SEA and Env
International legal env. Frameworks, EU SEA directive, UNECE SEA Protocol, MEAs, Therivel (2010) Chap 4 and Appendix A and B;
management
other
Marsden (2008) p. 5-18
How to do SEA (3) - Case study exercise
Analysis and application of SEA in fictive country case study - land use planning
Therivel (2010) Chap 7-9, Case study material
SEA procedures in different contexts,
Presentation of examples of “real” SEAs
OECD (2006);
different levels
Students make short presentations of SEA applications from their respective countries
(the home assignment from Oct. 11).
Theories about the policy process and their Rational, institutional and political theories about the policy process
Achmed and Sanchez Triana (2008), ch3
implications for SEA and environmental
Institutional and learning approaches to SEA and environmental policy integration
Therivel (2010), p. 35-40
policy integration
Slunge et al in World Bank 2011
The role of institutions in SEA and
The role of institutions in SEA? How undertake institutional analysis? Institutions for
World Bank (2011); Slunge et al in World Bank 2011,
national SEA systems.
national SEA systems.
Ahmed and Sanchez-Triana (2008) Ch. 8;
Priority setting, Participation
Students critically discuss papers based on insights from lectures and course literature
Thomas and Grindle (1990); Wilkins (2003)
Accountability and policy learning
Accountability and policy learning for enhanced env planning, decision-making and
Slunge et al in World Bank 2011; Ahmed and Sanchezmanagement
Triana (2008) Ch.6-7; Thomas and Grindle (1990);
Evaluation and follow up
Evaluation, SEA follow-up and monitoring of implementation
OECD (2006) Chap 6; Persson, Å. and Nilsson, M.
SEA effectiveness
SEA effectiveness
(2007);
Approaches and experiences from
environmental policy integration in OECD
countries
Integrating environment in policy making linking theory and practice
SEA in Practice
Work on Country case study
SEA in Practice
SEA in Practice
Presentation of Country case study
(submitted Fri Oct 25)
Communicative, organizational and procedural instruments for environmental policy
integration
Applications in OECD countries
Students critically discuss papers based on insights from lectures and course literature
Therivel (2010) Chap 10-11
Slunge et al in World Bank 2011
Edvardsson. 2004
Jordan and Lenschov, (2008). Chapter 1-2
Kørnøv and Thissen (2000) Turnpenny, J et al (2008),
Sanchez-Triana and Enriquez (2007)
Practical experiences from working w. SEA
Practical experiences from working w. SEA
Practical experiences from working w. SEA
Students present and critically discuss fictive country case
Case study material