SEA monitoring in Swedish regional transport infrastructure plans — Improvement opportunities identified in practical experience

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) requires monitoring in order to identify unforeseen adverse effects and to enable appropriate remedial action to be taken. Guidelines on how to monitor significant environmental impacts have been developed but experience from practice is limited. This paper p...

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Published in:Environmental impact assessment review 2010-11, Vol.30 (6), p.400-406
Main Authors: Lundberg, K., Balfors, B., Folkeson, L., Nilsson, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CALCULATION METHODS
Civil engineering and architecture
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DOCUMENT TYPES
Economic incentives
ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY
Enviormental impact assesment
Environmental assessment
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS
Environmental impact studies
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Environmental monitoring
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
EUROPE
Follow-up
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
Guidelines
Impact study (Environment)
IMPLEMENTATION
Infrastructure
ITERATIVE METHODS
MONITORING
Monitors
PLANNING
PUBLIC POLICY
RECOMMENDATIONS
Regional
Regional planning
Regional transport infrastructure plans
Reinforcement
REMEDIAL ACTION
RISK ASSESSMENT
Road: Environment
Road: Transport, society, policy and planning
Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur
SCANDINAVIA
SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment)
SWEDEN
TECHNOLOGY
TEKNIKVETENSKAP
TRANSPORT
Transport infrastructure
WESTERN EUROPE
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Summary:Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) requires monitoring in order to identify unforeseen adverse effects and to enable appropriate remedial action to be taken. Guidelines on how to monitor significant environmental impacts have been developed but experience from practice is limited. This paper presents a study of environmental monitoring in Swedish regional transport infrastructure planning. The result shows that essentially no environmental monitoring is currently performed. Monitoring of the plans merely involves checking the implementation of projects and performing an economic account. At present, a new planning period has commenced for the regional transport infrastructure plans. To obtain an iterative SEA process for the new plan with integrated SEA monitoring, the following means are suggested: reinforcement of practitioners' incentives to plan and perform monitoring; integration of monitoring in the SEA process; pre-determined impact thresholds that prompt remedial action; and more efficient use of monitoring results.
ISSN:0195-9255
1873-6432
1873-6432
DOI:10.1016/j.eiar.2009.12.002