The Role of Strategic Environmental Assessment in the EU Structural Funds Evaluation System in Poland

This paper identifies the role of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in the European Union (EU) structural funds evaluation system in Poland. The constitution of the evaluation system is one of the conditions of structural funds implementation. In the case of Poland such a system was created quite recently and it is still being developed in order to reach its full usefulness. The author investigates whether the evaluation system is capable of performing integrated sustainability evaluation and to what extent the evaluations are stitched to environmental issues. Secondly, the paper tries to answer the question of what kinds of instrument and evaluation areas are adequate for the sustainability evaluation task. Finally, the paper assesses the use of SEA in the process of sustainability and environmental orientated evaluations. The paper gives coverage of SEA use and experiences of evaluation commissioning agents as well as evaluators on the sustainability assessment issues. The last part of the paper is dedicated to the discussion on the future improvements of SEA use in order to increase its role in the creation of sustainable planning at the national and regional administration level.

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• Authors:
  • Nitkiewicz, T
• Conference:
  • Fourth International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning
  • Location: Cyprus
  • Date: 2009-5-13 to 2009-5-15
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 593-602, Vol. 2
• Monograph Title: Sustainable Development and Planning IV

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental impacts; Financial analysis; Regional transportation; Strategic planning; Structural analysis; Sustainable development; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: European Union
• Uncontrolled Terms: Environmental assessments
• Geographic Terms: Poland
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01138221
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845641818
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 12 2009 12:46PM