Strategic Environmental Assessment Framework in Coastal Areas: Designed from a Perspective of Ecosystem Management

摘要：

Undefinition of the theoretical basis for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a critical problem for its further development. Ecosystem management is firstly presented as the SEA theoretical basis thanks to its essential attributes including the requirements of goals, contents and methodologies; then the eight principles of SEA, i.e., timing, iterative, tiering, and comprehensive, conservation first principle, precautionary principle, cost-benefit analysis, and public participation, are determined under the guidance of the tenets of ecosystem management. Secondly, a generalized SEA framework designed for coastal cities is proposed according to the characteristics of coastal ecosystem and the SEA principles. This framework systematically comprises scoping, environmental baseline assessment, retrospective effect assessment, predictive impact assessment, as well as decision-making support process, and comprehensively considers from environmental factors to socio-economic ones in the full time scales from the past, present to the future. The framework is also designed with the principles of proactive, iterative, interactive and adaptive to the decision-making process. The framework has been applied to various targets in Xiamen China in the past years where the results indicate the proposed SEA framework practicable and effective.

关键词： strategic environmental assessment framework theoretical basis ecosystem management coastal areas

作者: FANG Qinhua CICIN-SAIN Biliana ZHANG Luoping CHEN Zhenming HONG Huasheng

作者单位: Environmental Science Research Center,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,Fujian,China Costal and Ocean Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy,College of Marine and Earth Studies,University of Delawar Environmental Science Research Center,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,Fujian,China Costal and Ocean School of Public Affairs,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,Fujian,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 International Symposium on Environmental Science and Technology(2009环境科学与技术国际会议)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 678-682

在线出版日期: 2009-06-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）