A Study on the Enhancement and Improvement of Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Feasibility of introducing Sustainability Assessment in Taiwan
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
LIOU, Ming-Lone
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic and comprehensive environmental assessment of the government’s proposed policies, plans, programs and alternatives. SEA can be applied to assess cumulative environmental effects, provide effective impact mitigation or improvement measures, evaluate potential effects outside the scope of EIA, ensure adequate public participation, and introduce sustainable development considerations into decision-making process. Due to the various potential applications, SEA has thus become a topic of great research interest in environmental assessment field.
A detailed review of the development history revealed that the time frame and contents for SEA development in Taiwan are consistent with the international trend. However, the lack of public debate during the initiation stage, plus the inter-agency bureaucracy has resulted in the slow deployment of SEA in Taiwan, despite a gradually improving scheme. Hence, it is the objectives of this research to study the reason for such slow deployment, determine whether it is due to system design or societal acceptance, and make recommendations to enhance and improve current SEA scheme in Taiwan.
In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, research was conducted by this dissertation on the schemes, procedures and methodologies relevant to the implementation of SEA in Taiwan which are capable of accomplishing greatest improvement effects. Based on study of existing SEA cases in Taiwan, it was observed that despite a well-established SEA scheme which is capable of affecting government decision-making process, the case studies still showed general lack of alternative option proposal and analysis, inadequate public participation, no incorporation of sustainability assessment, and no cross-agency communication and consultation.
Based on the above findings, this dissertation proposed added categories in the policies requiring SEA and mechanism for future periodic review, and also attempted to introduce definition method into the indicator selection mechanism in order to make up for the deficiency of the current matrix method. An integrated review and assessment procedure was also proposed to enhance the scientific basis and completeness of the current review procedure. Moreover, the concept of sustainability assessment has been incorporated into the current SEA framework so as to increase the operability of assessment process and acceptance of sustainability; sustainability indicators are also derived and added to the indicator matrix to assist in the assessment of policy sustainability. Finally, the development direction for the next generation of SEA in Taiwan has been proposed, in order to contribute to the further enhancement of SEA.
Subjects
環境影響評估
政府政策環境影響評估
政策環評
政策細項
篩選
Strategic Environmental Assessment
EIA
SEA
PPPs
Screening
Type
thesis
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