Strategic Environmental Assessment : Improving Water Resources Governance and Decision Making

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: AGRICULTURE;    CATCHMENT;    CATCHMENTS;    DECISION MAKERS;    DECISION MAKING;   

RP-ID  :  55280

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The Sustainable Development Network(SDN) calls for elevating the environment into upstreamprocesses such as policy, programmatic, and investmentdialogue. In its 2002 environment strategy, the Bankcommitted to use strategic environmental assessments (SEAs),an environmental planning tool for improving decision-makingat the strategic level of decision-making, policies,legislation, strategies, plans, and programs (PLSPP), and asa process for improving public policy design and goodgovernance of natural resources. SEAs share many conceptsand characteristics as integrated water resources management(IWRM), the accepted paradigm for efficient, equitable, andsustainable management of water resources since the 1990s.IWRM recognizes the dual nature of the environment as both awater using sector and a provider of services that maintainswater resources for all sectors. The overall goal of thisreport is to help water resources and environmentprofessionals use SEAs to effectively implement theprinciples of IWRM. It recommends a framework for expandinguse of SEAs to mainstream environmental considerations inwater resources policy, legislative and, institutionalreforms, planning and development lending decision-making aswell as for enabling adaptation in the water sector.