Tiering biodiversity issues from Strategic Environmental Assessment to Environmental Impact Assessment: exploring documentary evidence from Brazil and England

Gallardo, Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo and Bond, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3809-5805 (2024) Tiering biodiversity issues from Strategic Environmental Assessment to Environmental Impact Assessment: exploring documentary evidence from Brazil and England. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 42 (3). pp. 281-293. ISSN 1461-5517

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Abstract

Biodiversity protection is one of the key goals for Environmental Assessment (EA) practice that can most efficiently be achieved through tiering of environmental objectives between Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of sectoral and land use plans and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of projects. This research uses an analytical framework to benchmark some examples of tiering of biodiversity objectives using documentary case studies from Brazil and the United Kingdom; these suggest that EA tiering might still be very limited despite all recommendations to improve it, thereby impacting on the efficiency with which biodiversity goals can be achieved.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding information: The first author gratefully acknowledges FAPESP (the State of São Paulo Research Foundation) – grant [# 2021/12.252-0] and grant [#2023/14.497/6], São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and CNPq grant [#306419/2023-8] – for the support to this research.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	tiering,strategic environmental assessment,environmental impact assessment,biodiversity,environmental science(all),sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2024 08:30
Last Modified:	16 Jul 2024 01:40
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95531
DOI:	10.1080/14615517.2024.2368326

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