Governance in Strategic Environmental Assessment: Lessons from the Portuguese practice |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Management Studies (CEG-IST), Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon, Avenida Rovisco Pais, no. 1, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Sala 3.42, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;2. Centre for Management Studies (CEG-IST), Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon, Avenida Rovisco Pais, no. 1, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Sala 3.41.1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;1. Aalborg University, Denmark;2. CEG-IST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal;1. Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Viale Italia, 39, 07100 Sassari, Italy;2. LaSalle Investment Management, One Curzon Street London, UK;1. Center for Development Research, Dept. Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of Bonn, Walter Flex Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany;2. Laboratorio de Planificación Territorial, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Rudecindo ortega, 02950 Temuco, Chile;3. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Dept. Natural Sciences III, Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Von Seckendorff-Platz 4, 06120 Halle-Saale, Germany;4. University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, via Mesiano, 77, Trento 38123, Italy;1. Appraisal Center for Environment and Engineering, MEP, China;2. Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, China;3. Tianjin Environmental Monitoring Center, China;4. School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom;5. Research center for Strategic Environmental Assessment, Nankai University, China;1. School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland;2. Levett-Therivel Sustainability Consultants, United Kingdom;3. School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland;4. School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland;1. Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 303-70 Dysart Road, Winnipeg R3T 2M6, Canada;2. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The King''s University College, 9125-50 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2H3, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The analysis of governance in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) can help understand why, whether and how strategic decision-making happens. Understanding the governance context is strategic to improve the role and capacity of SEA to stimulate, and legitimate decisions that integrate environmental issues and are sustainability driven. The objective of this paper is to discuss why governance is important in SEA. In the SEA literature governance is mostly addressed in silos (i.e. public participation or decisions transparency or accountability) rather than in an integrated way. In addition few authors adopt a strategic view to address the governance context within which SEA is used. In this paper we address the heuristics of governance in SEA based on theoretical and empirical evidence, suggesting how SEA may incorporate the governance dimension. First a review of the SEA literature in relation to governance sets the context to the analysis on how governance is approached in practice, based on 60 Portuguese SEA cases. This is followed by the presentation of an empirical SEA case conducted in Portugal to illustrate what, in our understanding, can be an example of good practice in considering governance in SEA. Final discussion reflects on the role of governance in SEA in promoting engagement, enabling collaborative action, learning processes and dialogues, concluding on the relevance of governance in creating development contexts that can deal with change. |
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