Developing and testing a policy environmental assessment checklist for biodiversity conservation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21153383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabrina Genter, Susan A Moore (0000-0001-5401-2187, Murdoch University), John Bailey (0000-0001-9854-605X) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 189-200 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-5517 • E-ISSN: 1471-5465 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3152/146155108x333299 |
| OpenAlex | W2016276381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and policy environmental assessment (PEA), the term used to describe the application of SEA at the policy level, are widely accepted as means of including environmental concerns in decision-making. This paper develops and tests a checklist for assessing policies with a biodiversity focus, drawing on principles from PEA and biodiversity conservation. The development and testing of such a checklist has been rarely reported in the literature. The checklist was applied to five natural resource management policies in Western Australia and the 19 policy workers involved in the study were then asked to reflect on the checklist's usefulness. A key finding was that the checklist allowed policy workers to report against PEA and biodiversity conservation principles. Another was that when the assessed policies were closely aligned with rational decision-making, the checklist proved to be reproducible (a desirable attribute), and easy to use. Lastly the context within which the policies were developed strongly influenced how policy workers responded to the checklist
Biodiversity · Biology · Business · Checklist · Environmental impact assessment · Environmental planning · Environmental policy · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural resource · Nature Conservation · Strategic Environmental Assessment · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Environmental Science · Mining and Resource Management · Psychology · Ecology
The policy process in the modern capitalist state
Public policy analysis
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Social Research Methods
Treatment of biodiversity impacts in a sample of US environmental impact statements
Rationality in decision- and policy-making
Principles to guide the development of strategic environmental assessment methodology
Policy development and the environment
Assumptions about Ecological Scale and Nature Knowing Best Hiding in Environmental Decisions
Implications of Current Ecological Thinking for Biodiversity Conservation
A generic approach to integrate biodiversity considerations in screening and scoping for EIA
Testing a SEA methodology for the energy sector
Strategic environmental assessment
Theorising strategic environmental assessment
Analytical strategic environmental assessment (Ansea) developing a new approach to SEA
The potential role of strategic environmental assessment in the activities of multi-lateral development banks
Beyond Empiricism
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |