Translating Best Practice Principles into criteria for evaluating the consideration of biodiversity in SEA practice

IF 1.8 4区社会学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal Pub Date : 2022-06-18 DOI:10.1080/14615517.2022.2084231

Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo Gallardo, Cintia Aparecida da Conceição Dos Santos, A. Bond, Evandro Mateus Moretto, M. Montaño, Simone Athayde

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ABSTRACT Biodiversity is a core issue in the quest to achieve sustainable development. Although Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) includes biodiversity as an environmental component to consider in decision-making, its inclusion remains a challenge. Since the beginning of SEA practice, several guides have been proposed to address this challenge, but evaluating their success remains problematic. This paper, therefore, aims to develop an easily applied, criteria-based approach for evaluating the biodiversity assessment that takes place within SEA. A test application of the evaluation framework, based on the International Best Practice Principles on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in SEA, demonstrates its success in identifying whether the main elements of biodiversity were considered in a SEA report. However, the criteria focus on inclusion or exclusion of specific details, rather than the substance of the biodiversity consideration, and so further studies need to develop evaluative approaches for the substantive inclusion of biodiversity in SEA practice.

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将最佳实践原则转化为评估SEA实践中生物多样性考虑的标准

摘要生物多样性是实现可持续发展的核心问题。尽管战略环境评估（SEA）将生物多样性作为决策中需要考虑的环境组成部分，但其纳入仍然是一个挑战。自SEA实践开始以来，已经提出了一些指南来应对这一挑战，但评估其成功与否仍然存在问题。因此，本文旨在开发一种易于应用的、基于标准的方法来评估SEA中进行的生物多样性评估。基于《海洋环境评估生物多样性和生态系统服务国际最佳实践原则》的评估框架的测试应用表明，该框架在确定海洋环境评估报告中是否考虑了生物多样性的主要要素方面取得了成功。然而，标准侧重于纳入或排除具体细节，而不是生物多样性考虑的实质内容，因此需要进一步研究制定将生物多样性实质性纳入SEA实践的评估方法。

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