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Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) is an insightful new approach to environmental evaluation, based on decision theory, policy analysis and environmental considerations. These concepts, though not new in their own fields of application, are combined and integrated in an innovative fashion. This book presents recent research on the implementation of the ANSEA approach which aims to ensure environmental values are properly integrated into the decision-making process.
While the number of projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is expanding rapidly, there currently are relatively few transport projects in the global CDM portfolio. This article examines existing CDM transport projects and explores whether sectoral approaches to the CDM may provide a better framework for transport than the current project‐based CDM. We ask: Would a sectoral approach to the CDM promote the structural change and integrated policymaking needed to achieve sustainable transport policy, making it hence more desirable than the framework of the current project‐based CDM? We conclude that it is possible to design sectoral transport activities within clear project boundaries that fit into a framework of a programmatic or policy‐based CDM. Although we are able to ascertain that transport policy research yields several modelling tools to address the methodological requirements of the CDM, it becomes apparent that sectoral approaches will accentuate transport projects' problems regarding high complexity and related uncertainties. The CDM may need new rules to manage these risks. Nonetheless, sectoral approaches allow the scaling up of activities to a level that affects long‐term structural change.
The sectoral clean development mechanism : a contribution from a sustainable transport perspective
(2007)
IMAGO - Innovative Marketing- und Angebotskonzepte in Gemeinden mit Ortsbussystemen : Schlussbericht
(2005)
Chancen für eine umweltverträglichere Mobilität : was kann die Strategische Umweltprüfung leisten?
(2004)
Verkehrsgenese : Entstehung von Verkehr sowie Potenziale und Grenzen einer nachhaltigen Mobilität
(2004)
Fragen zur Verkehrsgenese, zu (Hinter-)Gründen und Ursachen für die Entstehung und Ausdifferenzierung des Verkehrs sind seit den neunziger Jahren zu einem eigenen Forschungsfeld geworden und haben für praktische Anwendungen an Bedeutung gewonnen. Aus verschiedenen disziplinären, Forschungs- und Praxisperspektiven wird in dem Band der Stand der Forschung zur Verkehrsgenese beleuchtet. Die meisten Texte basieren auf Vorträgen auf der Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Verkehr 2003 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie am Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt und Energie.
The objective of analytical strategic environmental assessment (ANSEA) is to provide a decision-centred approach to the SEA process. The ANSEA project evolved from the realisation that, in many cases, SEA, as currently practised, is not able to ensure an appropriate integration of environmental values. The focus of SEA is on predicting impacts, but the tool takes no account of the decision-making processes it is trying to influence. At strategic decision-making levels, in turn, it is often difficult to predict impacts with the necessary exactitude. The decision-making sciences could teach some valuable lessons here. Instead of focusing on the quantitative prediction of environmental consequences, the ANSEA approach concentrates on the integration of environmental objectives into decision-making processes. Thus, the ANSEA approach provides a framework for analysing and assessing the decision-making processes of policies, plans and programmes (PPP). To enhance environmental integration into the decision-making process, decision windows (DW) can be identified. The approach is designed to be objective and transparent to ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account, or - from an ex-post perspective - to allow an evaluation of how far environmental considerations have been integrated into the decision-making process under assessment. The paper describes the concepts and the framework of the ANSEA approach and discusses its relation to SEA and the EC Directive.
Verpasste Chancen beim Bundesverkehrswegeplan : vor der Einführung der Strategischen Umweltprüfung
(2004)
Der Anstieg von Verkehrsaufkommen und -leistung in Deutschland und die Folgen für die Umwelt sind bekannt; die politischen und planerischen Konsequenzen hingegen stehen weitestgehend aus. Neben einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung einzelner Projekte ist vielmehr die Umweltprüfung auch von Plänen, Programmen und sogar Politiken notwendig. Mit der von der EU 2001 verabschiedeten Richtlinie zur Strategischen Umweltprüfung (SUP) steht ab 2004 ein Instrument zur Verfügung, dass Umweltbelange nun frühzeitig berücksichtigt. Die Autoren stellen die SUP ausführlich vor und analysieren detailliert Aufgaben, Informationssysteme und Entscheidungsprozesse in der Bundesverkehrswegeplanung (BVWP). Auf dieser Basis entwickeln sie ein Konzept zur Integration der SUP in die BVWP, identifizieren Hemmnisse für eine strategische und umweltorientierte Verkehrswegplanung und entwerfen Vorschläge für eine Weiterentwicklung des Instruments SUP als Beitrag zur zukünftigen Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Verkehrsplanung.
Der Wettbewerb YOU-move.nrw
(2003)
Strategic Environmental Assessment aims to incorporate environmental and sustainability considerations into strategic decision making processes, such as the formulation of policies, plans and programmes. In order to be effective, the assessment must take the real decision making process as the departure point. Existing SEA approaches are frequently tailored after an EIA model conceived from a rational perspective on decision making. However, there are good reasons to assume that most strategic decision making processes are characterised by a bounded rationality. Furthermore, the predictability of environmental consequences generally becomes weaker at strategic levels than at the project level and complexity increases in terms of the numbers of actors involved in the decision. This paper examines various theoretical perspectives to decision making and discusses the implications for decision support in general and SEA in particular. The authors argue that the design of the SEA must be more sensitive to the real characteristics of the decision making context.