CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Palchekh, Tatsiana |
|---|---|
| Title | Developing Strategic Environmental Assessment screening in a transition country. The case-study of Belarus |
| Summary | Screening is the initial stage of strategic environmental assessment (SEA). Screening aims to answer if further application of SEA to assessed planned strategic activity is needed. The procedure for SEA screening is defined in international documents (SEA Protocol and SEA Directive), however their provisions are very general and leave certain freedom of interpretation. The responsibility to develop SEA screening criteria and define it in national laws rests on each member-state. Screening approaches and types of screening systems vary greatly from country to country. There are experienced countries which have reached certain success in this field (Denmark, UK, Canada, etc) and there are states which are still in the beginning of their way towards the establishment of effective and efficient screening system (e.g. NIS). When developing a screening system countries face a number of problems which are concluded mainly in finding a proper balance between such factors as national context specificity and obligatoriness of international regulations, cost of screening and its level of precision, flexibility and uniformity of screening procedure, etc. There is a clear need in the development of frame SEA screening criteria which would guide SEA system developers towards finding such a balance. For this purpose generic SEA screening criteria (GSSC) and a scheme of their contextualization are developed in this thesis. Requirements for screening found in the literature, international documents and extracted from reviewed international practices are analyzed, considered and systematized in a form of generic SEA screening criteria. GSSC are based on a number of crucial principles such as legitimacy, flexibility of screening system, informal application, acceptance, balance between cost and necessity, reasonable efforts and others. The Republic of Belarus is chosen as a field of application of GSSC-contextualization scheme. The elaboration of the requirements for the effective and efficient SEA screening system in Belarus is made by means of application of GSSC in the Belarusian context with regard to its specificity and the challenges which this application may face. |
| Supervisor | Cherp, Aleh |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/palchekh_tatsiana.pdf |
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