Strategic Environmental Assessment as a Tool to Develop Power in Transboundary Water Basin Settings
| Autor: | Raymond Noël, Jakob Granit, R. Michael King |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
geography
Environmental Engineering geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Process (engineering) business.industry Environmental resource management Drainage basin Context (language use) Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development Power (social and political) Business Strategic environmental assessment |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development. 2:1-11 |
| ISSN: | 1947-8410 1947-8402 |
| DOI: | 10.4018/jsesd.2011100101 |
| Popis: | This paper proposes a generic consultative process for undertaking Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) in a transboundary river basin context to bring up front environmental and social issues of major development programs into the transboundary planning, project development and investment finance processes. The paper demonstrates through an analysis of two case studies from the Nile Basin in East and North Africa how an SEA approach with a focus on hydropower development is a transparent pre-investment tool that allows for consensus building in support of transboundary and regional strategic decision making and integration. Further, it demonstrates how an SEA can guide public and private sector investors seeking to develop the power sector in general and hydropower options in particular by allowing for a first level understanding of challenges and opportunities of power development and the development scenarios preferred by riparian governments. |
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