GUEST EDITORIAL: STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT — GREAT POTENTIAL FOR BIODIVERSITY?
| Autor: | J. R. Treweek, Helen Byron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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business.industry Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management Biodiversity Management Monitoring Policy and Law Livelihood Habitat Measurement of biodiversity Environmental science Ecosystem Agricultural biodiversity Strategic environmental assessment business Environmental planning |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management. :v-xiii |
| ISSN: | 1757-5605 1464-3332 |
| DOI: | 10.1142/s1464333205002080 |
| Popis: | Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a potentially powerful tool for mainstreaming biodiversity in planning and development. This special issue explores experiences from around the World to identify examples of effective integration, potential barriers and essential ingredients of effective SEA for the benefit of biodiversity. Biodiversity merits special consideration because of its fundamental importance to people’s livelihoods, its accelerating decline as a consequence of human activity and the long “lead-times” needed to understand and manage it effectively. Biodiversity is the variety of life at all levels, from genes to worldwide populations of the same species, and from communities of species sharing the same small area of habitat to worldwide ecosystems. We all depend on biodiversity, for example, micro-organisms essential for soil fertility, plants and animals used for food, forests and other ecosystems protecting water supplies or providing flood protection. There has been an increasing recognition of the strong links between |
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