MPRE Planning and Real Estate with Professional Placement / Course details

• Extending environmental assessment to the strategic level: policies, plans and programmes
• The SEA process
• SEA methods
• The European directive on SEA
• UK approaches to SEA
• International and agency examples of SEA
• Sectoral responses to SEA
• Current developments in SEA
   

1. To explore the basis of strategic environmental assessment (SEA).
2. To explore different SEA approaches and methods.
3. To understand the regulatory context for SEA in different contexts.

Workshops, student-led seminars, lessons from practice, self directed reading.

Appreciate the relationship between SEA and environmental planning processes;

Develop an awareness of SEA effectiveness and performance requirements

Develop an ability to debate alternative approaches and establish reasoned arguments.

Obtain a practical understanding of SEA methods and approaches

Advance skills in group discussion, oral and written presentation, scenario development and problem solving.

1. Group Presentation; Length: 15 mins; Weighting: 25%
2. Essay; Length: 2500 words; Weighting: 75%

Formative feedback will be given verbally through Q&A and discussion within lecture/workshop/presentation sessions, together with written comments as appropriate, and through the Blackboard Discussion Boards.   Written summative feedback will be given on the group presentation and individual essay.

Dalal-Clayton, B. and Sadler, B. (2005) Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience, Earthscan, London.
Fischer, T. (2002) Strategic Environmental Assessment in Transport and Land Use Planning, Earthscan, London.
Jones, C., Baker, M., Carter, J., Jay, S., Short, M. and Wood, C. (eds.) (2005) Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning: An International Evaluation, Earthscan, London.
Marsden, S. (2008) Strategic environmental assessment in international and European law: a practitioner's guide Earthscan, London.
Noble, B. (2000) SEA: what is it, and what makes it strategic? Journal of Environmental Assessment and Policy Management 2: 203-224.
Runhaar, H. and Driessen, P. (2007), What makes strategic environmental assessment successful environmental assessment? The role of context in the contribution of SEA to decision-making, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 25(1): 2-14.
Sadler, B. and Dusik, J (2016) European and international experiences of strategic environmental assessment: recent progress and future prospects Routledge, London.
Therivel, R. (2004) Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action Earthscan, London.
Verheem, R. and Tonk, J, (2000) SEA: one concept, multiple forms, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 18: 177-182.