Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effective planning of transport and land use. This is an analysis of transport and land-use planning using strategic environmental assessment (SEA). It establishes the effectiveness of SEA through comparative studies of practice in three countries: Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. The author shows that use of SEA is widespread but far from systematic. He demonstrates the advantages of adopting a systematic application of a comprehensive form of SEA derived from all the major current approaches. Only once this approach is...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a professional field driven by both advances in theory and practice and by regulatory requirements in Europe, North America, Australasia, South Africa and increasingly across Asia. This title offers a review of SEA theory and practice and promotes a systematic approach to SEA.

An analysis of transport and land-use planning using strategic environmental assessment (SEA). It establishes the effectiveness of SEA through studies of practice in Britain, the Netherlands and Germany, and shows how much could be achieved through systema

This comprehensive textbook introduces and covers all aspects of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). It covers all the main topics, examines the state of the art in theory and method, explains jargon and provides extra readings, boxed examples and case studies from across the world.