战略环境评价中公众参与程序和方法研究

公众参与贯穿于战略环境评价(SEA)的主要过程,是提高SEA质量的一个重要手段.简要介绍了公众参与SEA的内涵和理论依据;解析了公众参与在SEA整个过程中所处的位置和参与内容;对公众参与SEA的具体工作程序和方法及参与方式进行了探讨.将为公众成功的参与SEA提供有效途径和方法,同时也是提高政府决策效率和公众环境意识的重要途径.     

我国工业区布局与城市规划建设间存在矛盾的分析

针对我国东部某沿海城市化工园区的建设和规划情况,分析目前的环境风险水平与周边地区建设发展规划存在的矛盾,并提出应尽快开展区域规划环评的建议。     

The emperor's new clothes — Reflections on strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice in South Africa

This paper presents the results of research which evaluated the performance of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice in South Africa in order to develop understanding of how SEA functions within a developing country with a voluntary SEA system. The research applied a combination of methods in a mixed research strategy, including a macro level survey of the SEA system together with case study reviews exploring micro level application. Three main ‘system features’ emerged, namely expansion of voluntary practice, diversity in practice and general ineffectiveness. The results also highlight a number of ‘application features’ such as a lack of focus due to an inability to deal with the concepts of ‘sustainability’ and ‘significance’, as well as poor understanding and integration with decision-making processes. Moreover, it emerged that none of the case studies seem to have conducted an ‘assessment’ per se, but rather provided a framework for strategic decision-making. The paper puts forward a number of interrelated explanations for these system and application features. In a parallel to the fable of the ‘emperor's new clothes’, SEA in South Africa appears to be regarded as the answer to all environmental problems, whilst being ineffective in practice.     

Case studies: Application of SEA in provincial level expressway infrastructure network planning in China — Current existing problems

Since the Law of the People's Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment was enacted in 2003 and Huanfa 2004 No. 98 was released in 2004, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has been officially being implemented in the expressway infrastructure planning field in China. Through scrutinizing two SEA application cases of China's provincial level expressway infrastructure (PLEI) network plans, it is found that current SEA practice in expressway infrastructure planning field has a number of problems including: SEA practitioners do not fully understand the objective of SEA; its potential contributions to strategic planning and decision-making is extremely limited; the employed application procedure and prediction and assessment techniques are too simple to bring objective, unbiased and scientific results; and no alternative options are considered. All these problems directly lead to poor quality SEA and consequently weaken SEA's effectiveness.     

Promoting system-level learning from project-level lessons: An analysis of donor-driven ‘indirect’ learning about EIA systems in Ghana and the Maldives

A growing number of low and middle income nations (LMCs) have adopted some sort of system for environmental impact assessment (EIA). However, generally many of these EIA systems are characterised by a low performance in terms of timely information dissemination, monitoring and enforcement after licencing. Donor actors (such as the World Bank) have attempted to contribute to a higher performance of EIA systems in LMCs by intervening at two levels: the project level (e.g. by providing scoping advice or EIS quality review) and the system level (e.g. by advising on EIA legislation or by capacity building). The aims of these interventions are environmental protection in concrete cases and enforcing the institutionalisation of environmental protection, respectively. Learning by actors involved is an important condition for realising these aims. A relatively underexplored form of learning concerns learning at EIA system-level via project level donor interventions. This ‘indirect’ learning potentially results in system changes that better fit the specific context(s) and hence contribute to higher performances. Our exploratory research in Ghana and the Maldives shows that thus far, ‘indirect’ learning only occurs incidentally and that donors play a modest role in promoting it. Barriers to indirect learning are related to the institutional context rather than to individual characteristics. Moreover, ‘indirect’ learning seems to flourish best in large projects where donors achieved a position of influence that they can use to evoke reflection upon system malfunctions. In order to enhance learning at all levels donors should thereby present the outcomes of the intervention elaborately (i.e. discuss the outcomes with a large audience), include practical suggestions about post-EIS activities such as monitoring procedures and enforcement options and stimulate the use of their advisory reports to generate organisational memory and ensure a better information dissemination.     

Environmental assessment in countries in transition: evolution in a changing context

Over the last fifteen years, Environmental Assessment systems of transitional societies of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have undergone dramatic change from appraisals integrated into centrally planned economies to formal procedures aimed to ensure interdisciplinary analysis of environmental impacts and linked to publicly accountable decision-making. In most Central European nations, EA systems have been radically reformed to approximate the procedures used in developed countries, particularly in the European Union. In contrast, EA in most of the former Soviet republics has been reformed more gradually and is still based on the so-called State Environmental Review procedure inherited from the USSR and substantially different from 'Western' EA. About one-third of the transitional countries (in the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia) have, so far, failed to establish functioning EA systems. Throughout the region, there has been a gap between EA legislation and practice, especially concerning interdisciplinary analysis of environmental impacts, public participation, and utilisation of EA findings in decision-making. A key driving force in the reform of EA systems has been the change in their societal context, the so-called 'process of transition'. Three main policy agendas--environmental protection, reforms of decision-making, and conforming to international requirements--along with the institutional context of EA regulations and practice have influenced both the change of EA systems over time and the regional variations in the patterns of their evolution. This study suggests that an effective reform of an EA system should be context-sensitive, or be 'in gear' with the political and economic transition. Future EA research should consider their changing societal contexts and focused on practical effects of applying EA procedures.     

战略环境影响识别研究

环境影响因子识别是战略环境评价的基础内容之一.本文通过分析战略环境影响发生的2个战略根源和3类环境影响受体,提出战略环境影响发生机理.2个战略根源分别是战略缺陷和战略的"超域效应和外部性";3类环境影响受体包括全球可持续性因子、自然资源因子和当地环境质量因子.对环境影响因子识别、影响范围识别和时间跨度识别等3个方面的战略环境影响识别内容进行了研究,并对战略环境影响识别依据进行了分析,给出了可应用于战略环境评价的识别方法.同时,以上海市能源专项规划为例,进行战略环境影响因子与影响范围的识别,建立了能源专项规划的战略环境评价指标体系.     

基于制度背景下的中国战略环境评价体系建设

自《中华人民共和国环境影响评价法》的实施后,众多学者对战略环评开展的障碍和瓶颈进行了较为深入的探讨,研究大都集中在战略环评的理论分析等内部制约因素上,有关战略环评开展的外部制约因素则鲜有涉及。本研究从战略环评的制度建设（法律、体制和机制）入手,分析战略环评的发展中的法律、组织管理、部门利益和实施机制（责任、监督和保障机制）等方面的问题,并对今后战略环评在法律、体制、机制方面的发展方向提出相关建议。     

战略环境影响评价中公众参与方法研究与案例分析

公众参与有效性是衡量战略环境影响评价质量的一个重要指标,它对于提高环境管理水平具有重要的意义。本文在对比项目环境影响评价的基础上,系统阐述了战略环境影响评价公众参与的内容、对象、方式、时机、实施主体、数据处理及信息反馈,初步建立了战略环境影响评价公众参与的方法与体系,并结合典型案例进行了战略环境影响评价公众参与的过程分析。     

农业开发的战略环境评价初探

阐述了在农业开发中实施战略环境评价(strategicenvironmentalassessment,SEA)的必要性。根据农业开发SEA的介入时机,将其划分为预测性SEA、监控性SEA和回顾性SEA3种类型。初步探讨了农业开发SEA的基本内容,即评价对象、评价原则、评价指标体系集和评价方法,并提出了农业开发SEA的基本工作程序。