Course Schedule - GM0212 Masters Course
Strategic Environmental Assessment
–
Integration of Environment in Strategic Planning and Decision-Making
(Oct 9, 2014)
Teachers Department Role Mail Phone
Anders Ekbom (AE) Dept of Economics, GU Lecturer/ Examiner [email protected] 0766-22 92 02
Daniel Slunge (DS) Dept of Economics, GU Lecturer [email protected] 031-786 92 05
GU=
University of GothenburgWeek 40 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature
Wed 1 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture AE, DS GU Course introduction; Course rationale, objectives. Presentation of students, teachers, etc.
Formalities and practicalities Intro to assignments and literature seminars
Wed 1 Oct 13.00-16.00
Lecture AE Introduction to SEA; Env problems and Systems
Why SEA? Rationale.
Introduction to systems: technical, social, environmental, economic systems
Therivel (2010) Chap 1-2 Rosenhead, (1989) Chap 5
Fri 3 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture AE Key concepts of SEA Screening, scoping, baseline, identifying env problems, stakeholders, decision, monitoring etc
Therivel (2010) Chap 1-2 OECD (2006)
Fri 3 Oct 13.00-16.00
Lecture AE How to do SEA - the SEA process (1)
Setting the context for SEA: screening, scoping, baselines, identifying env problems
Therivel (2010) Chap 3, 5-6 SEPA (2010)
Week 41 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature
Mon 6 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture, Group work
AE How to do SEA – The SEA Process (2) - Case study exercise
SEA tools, Identifying alternatives, predicting, evaluating and mitigating env impacts, documentation, implementation, monitoring
Therivel (2010) Chap 7-9, Appendix C’; , Case study material
SEPA (2010) Mon 6 Oct 13.00-16.00 Lecture, Group work
AE How to do SEA (3) - Case study exercise
Analysis and application of SEA in fictive country case study - land use planning
Therivel (2010) Chap 7-9, Case study material
Wed 8 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture AE Environmental priority setting
Rationale, methods for env priority setting (env risk analysis, benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis)
Ahmed and Sanchez-Triana (2008) Ch. 4, Wilkins (2003)
Wed 8 Oct 13.00-16.00
Lecture AE Participation, stakeholder representation
Involvement of the public, strengthening voice of the poor, constituencies, tools for participation and stakeholder involvement
Ahmed and Sanchez-Triana (2008) Ch. 5, Therivel (2010), p. 74-82 Wilkins (2003)
Fri 10 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture LG Legal aspects of SEA and Env management
International legal env. Frameworks, EU SEA directive, UNECE SEA Protocol, MEAs, other
Therivel (2010) Chap 4 and Appendix A and B; Marsden (2008) p. 5-18 Fri 10 Oct 13.00-16.00 Students’ presentations DS SEA procedures in different contexts, different levels
Presentation of examples of “real” SEAs Students make short presentations of SEA applications from their respective countries
OECD (2006);
Week 42 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature
Mon 13 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture DS Theories about the policy process and their implications for SEA
Rationale, institutional and political theories about the policy process
Nitz and Brown, 2001 Therivel (2010), p. 35-40
Achmed and Sanchez Triana (2008), ch 3
Mon 13 Oct 13.00-16.00
Lecture DS The role of institutions in SEA and national SEA systems.
The role of institutions in SEA and
implementation? How to undertake institutional analysis? Institutions for national SEA systems.
Ahmed and Sanchez-Triana (2008) Ch. 8; Slunge and Tran, 2014; Kørnøv et al 2014 Wed 15 Oct 10.00-12.00 Literature seminar 1 DS Integrating environment in policy making - linking
Students critically discuss papers based on insights from lectures and course literature
Kørnøv and Thissen (2000) Turnpenny, J et al (2008),
Sanchez-Fri 17 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture DS Accountability and policy learning
Accountability and policy learning for enhanced env planning, decision-making and management
Ahmed and Sanchez-Triana (2008) Ch.6-7; Fri 17 Oct 13.00-16.00 Lecture; group work DS How to do SEA (5) -Evaluation and follow up SEA effectiveness
Evaluation, SEA follow-up and monitoring of implementation; SEA effectiveness
OECD (2006) Chap 6; Persson, Å. and Nilsson, M. (2007);
Therivel (2010) Chap 10-11 Slunge and Loayza (2012)
Week 43 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature
Mon 20 Oct 10.00-12.00
Lecture DS Approaches and experiences from environmental policy integration
Communicative, organizational and procedural instruments for environmental policy integration; Practical Applications
SEPA 2012
OECD 2014. Environmental Performance Review - Sweden
Mon 20 Oct 13.00-16.00
Guest Lecture Mira Ovuka SEA in Practice Swedish Traffic Agency; Env integration in Western Transport link
Wed 22 Oct 10.00-12.00 Literature seminar 2 AE Priority setting, Participation
Students critically discuss papers & chapters based on insights from lectures and course literature
Wilkins (2003); Thomas and Grindle (1990)
Wed 22 Oct 13.00-16.00
Group exercise AE Work on Country case study
Fri 24 Oct 10.00-12.00
Guest Lecture Mats-Ola Larsson
SEA in Practice Practical experiences from working w. Strategic evn integration; Gbg Municipality
Fri 24 Oct 13.00-16.00
Guest lecture T b d SEA in Practice Practical experiences from working w. SEA
Week 44 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature
Mon 27 Oct 10.00-12.00 Optional Mon 27 Oct 13.00-16.00 Summary, discussion, Q&A
AE, DS Summary, discussion, Q&A
Fri 31 Oct 13.00 Exam* Submission of Exam, Course evaluation
Note: Submission of home exam by course examiner to students Tuesday Oct 28, 10 am.
Deadline for submission of home exam by students to course examiner ([email protected]) Oct 31, 1 pm.
Course literature
Books:
Ahmed, Kulsum and Sanchez-Triana, 2008.
Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies – An Instrument for Good Governance
, World
Bank, Washington DC. (219 pages).
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/ENVIRONMENT/0,,contentMDK:21819527~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSite
PK:244381~isCURL:Y,00.html
Book chapters:
Marsden, Simon, 2008.
Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law
. Earthscan; pages. 5-18.
Rosenhead, Jonathan, 1989.
Rational analysis for a problematic world
. Wiley, Chapter 4-5 about soft systems methodologies (pp. 71-118); see
course webpage/handout
Scientific Papers:
Kørnøv, Lone and Wil Thissen (2000) Rationality in decision- and policy-making: implications for strategic environmental assessment. Impact
Assessment and Project Appraisal 18 (3) pp. 191–200
Kørnøv, Lone, Zhang, Jie and Christensen Per (2014) The influence of street level bureaucracy on the implementation of Strategic
Environmental Assessment.
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.873711
Nitz, Tracey and A.L. Brown (2001) SEA must learn how policy making works.
Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management
3 ( 3) pp. 329–342
Persson, Åsa and Nilsson, Måns (2007) Towards a Framework for SEA Follow-Up: Theoretical Issues and Lessons from Policy Evaluation.
Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management
9 (4) pp. 473-496
Sanchez-Triana and Enriquez (2007), Using policy-based SEA in water supply and sanitation sector reforms: the case of Argentina and
Colombia,
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
, 25 (3), pp. 175-187.
Slunge, Daniel and Tran Tran. 2014. Challenges to Institutionalizing Strategic Environmental Assessment – the Case of Vietnam.
Environmental
impact assessment review
. 48 s. 53-61.
Slunge, Daniel and Fernando Loayza. 2012. Greening Growth through Strategic Environmental Assessment of Sector Reforms.
Public
Administration and Development,
32 ( 3 ) s. 245-261.
Thomas, John W. and Grindle, Merilee S.,1990. After the Decision: Implementing Policy Reforms in Developing Countries
, World
Development
, 18 (8): 1163-1181.
Turnpenny, J et al (2008) Why is integrating policy assessment so hard? A comparative analysis of the institutional capacities and constraints,
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
, Vol. 51, No 6
Wilkins, Hugh, 2003. The Need for Subjectivity in EIA: Discourse as a Tool for Sustainable Development,
Environmental Impact Assessment
Review
, Vol. 23, p. 401-414.
Reports:
OECD, 2006. Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment: Good practice guidance for development co-operation OECD DAC Guidelines and
reference series, OECD, 160 pages;
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/21/37353858.pdf
OECD 2014. Environmental Performance Review of Sweden - Highlights, 13 pages
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). 2010.
Practical guidelines on strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes
.
Report 6383;
http://www.naturvardsverket.se/Documents/publikationer/978-91-620-6383-2.pdf
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). 2012. I
n-depth evaluation of Sweden’s environmental objectives. Executive summary, page
16-25.
Recommended background reading:
Hill, Michael. 2009.
The Public Policy Process.
Fifth Edition, Pearson.
World Bank, 2011. Strategic Environmental Assessment in Policy and Sector Reform: Conceptual Model and Operational Guidance
