SEAs for seas: Strategic environmental assessment for more strategic and environmentally-oriented marine spatial planning processes

IF 4.9 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103920
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The foreseen, and already ongoing, substantial increase in offshore renewable energy and corresponding infrastructures urges policymakers and scholars to carefully consider corresponding long-term environmental effects on the marine environment. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is becoming a standard tool for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) processes for enabling planners to develop more sustainable marine spatial plans. To explore how SEA can contribute to a more strategic and environmentally-oriented MSP practice, four SEA processes from four North Sea countries are examined, building on available SEA documents and semi-structured interviews. The results show that SEAs for MSP can take an exploratory or appraisal-oriented approach. Adopting an exploratory approach can open up comparatively more opportunities for SEA to contribute to MSP than an adopting an appraisal-oriented approach, but it requires an early initiation of the SEA within the larger planning process. Still, it does not imply that there is one single best method. Rather, the institutional context establishes the conditions for SEA processes to contribute to MSP practice. Particularly, the political pressures and prior sectoral policymaking for offshore renewable energy restrict what can be included in the scope of an SEA. Also, the limited knowledge on the larger dynamics of the marine environment complicate the assessment of transboundary and cumulative effects. Therefore, as future research continues working towards a robust scientific knowledge base on the marine environment, it is crucial that scholars and policymakers collaborate on a structural basis to bridge the gap between science and policy implementation.
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海洋的战略环境评估:为更具战略性和更注重环境的海洋空间规划进程开展战略环境评估
可预见的以及正在进行的海上可再生能源和相应基础设施的大量增加,敦促决策者和学者认真考虑对海洋环境的长期环境影响。战略环境评估(SEA)正在成为海洋空间规划(MSP)过程中的标准工具,使规划者能够制定更具可持续性的海洋空间规划。为了探索 SEA 如何有助于更具战略性和以环境为导向的 MSP 实践,我们以现有的 SEA 文件和半结构式访谈为基础,对北海四个国家的四个 SEA 流程进行了研究。研究结果表明,针对中等规模项目的 SEA 可以采用探索性或评估性方法。与采用评估导向的方法相比,采用探索性的方法可以为 SEA 提供更多的机会,为 MSP 做出贡献,但这需要在更大的规划过程中尽早启动 SEA。但这并不意味着只有一种最佳方法。恰恰相反,制度环境为 SEA 过程促进 MSP 实践创造了条件。特别是,政治压力和先前的海上可再生能源部门决策限制了 SEA 的范围。此外,对海洋环境更大动态的了解有限,也使跨界和累积效应的评估变得更加复杂。因此,随着未来的研究继续致力于建立一个强大的海洋环境科学知识库,学者和决策者必须开展结构性合作,以弥合科学与政策实施之间的差距。
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Environmental Science & Policy
Environmental Science & Policy 环境科学-环境科学
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10.90
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332
审稿时长
68 days
期刊介绍: Environmental Science & Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of policy relevance on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and wastes, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, sustainability, and the interactions among these issues. The journal emphasises the linkages between these environmental issues and social and economic issues such as production, transport, consumption, growth, demographic changes, well-being, and health. However, the subject coverage will not be restricted to these issues and the introduction of new dimensions will be encouraged.
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