Strategic Environmental Assessment for Transport

Environmental impact assessments are an essential component of making decisions on transport infrastructure investments. Traditional procedures have proved ineffective for impacts that go beyond the scope of projects in isolation. Strategic environmental assessment has emerged in response, to addres...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2000
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Environmental impact assessments are an essential component of making decisions on transport infrastructure investments. Traditional procedures have proved ineffective for impacts that go beyond the scope of projects in isolation. Strategic environmental assessment has emerged in response, to address large scale effects including impacts on traffic across networks, impacts on climate change and biodiversity and the impacts of policy decisions as opposed simply to individual projects. This report examines recent experience in developing environmental assessment internationally and makes recommendations on maximising the effectiveness of this new tool
Physical Description:89 p. 20 x 27cm
ISBN:9789264188174