SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21-23 September 2011 Prague, Czech Republic Final Program Special Conference on Strategic Environmental Assessment IAIA SEA Prague II 2011 International Association for Impact for Assessment Association International Are we going in the right direction? IAIA SEA Prague I 2005 how do we improve performance? IAIA SEA Prague II 2011 Organized by International Association for Impact Assessment in cooperation with the European Commission – DG Environment and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Co-hosted by Integra Consulting and Czech University of Life Sciences Venue Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Kamycka 1176 Prague, Czech Republic Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the SEA Directive Conference Venue (Campus) 1 3 2 4 SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 2 Final Program Conference Committees Key Contacts Jiri Dusik (Co-chair of the Programme Committee), [email protected] Barry Sadler (Co-chair of the Programme Committee), [email protected] Vladislav Zdrazil (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee), [email protected] Zdenek Keken (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee) [email protected] Ivana Vasickova (Conference secretariat), [email protected] Loreley Fortuny (IAIA Headquarters), [email protected] Programme Committee Jiri Dusik (Co-chair), Integra Consulting, Czech Republic Barry Sadler (Co-chair) in personal capacity, Canada David Annandale, Integra Consulting, Canada Ralf Aschemann, University of Graz, Austria Tea Aulavuo, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Matthew Cashmore, Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment Peter Croal, OECD/DAC Task Team on SEA and Canadian International Development Agency Th omas Fischer, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Marie Hanusch, Bosch & Partner, Germany Monica Fundingsland Tetlow, Rogaland fylkeskommune, Norway Elsa João, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Lone Kørnøv, Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment Fernando Loayza, World Bank Ross Marshall, Environment Agency, United Kingdom Maria Partidário, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Ursula Platzer, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria Urszula Rzeszot, in private capacity, Poland Bobbi Schijf, Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment Martin Smutny, Integra Consulting, Czech Republic Riki Th erivel, Oxford Brooks University, United Kingdom Rob Verheem, Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessments Organizing Committee Vladislav Zdrazil (Co-chair), Czech University of Life Sciences Zdenek Keken (Co-chair), Czech University of Life Sciences Simona Kosikova, in personal capacity, Czech Republic Michal Musil, Integra Consulting, Czech Republic Ivana Vasickova, Integra Consulting, Czech Republic International Advisory Committee Miroslav Martis (Chair), Czech University of Life Sciences Nicholas Bonvoisin, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Jan Dusik, UNEP Regional Offi ce for Europe Lars Emmelin, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Josh Fothergill, Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment, United Kingdom Mojca Hrabar, Oikos, Slovenia Ausra Jurkeviciute, in personal capacity, Lithuania Georges Kremlis, European Commission, DG Environment Stephen Lintner, IAIA President Henrieta Martonakova, UNDP Bratislava Regional Center Nenad Mikulic, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Croatia Matthias Sauer, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany Dusan Sevic, Regional Environmental Center, Hungary Daniel Slunge, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Elizabeth Smith, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Roger Smithson, in personal capacity, United Kingdom SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 3 Final Program Notes SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 4 Final Program Table of Contents Map of venue .................................................................................................................................................................2 Conference committees ...............................................................................................................................................3 Welcome ........................................................................................................................................................................6 Agenda ...........................................................................................................................................................................8 Overview of concurrent sessions ................................................................................................................................9 Conference profi le at a glance .................................................................................................................................. 10 Presentations Th eme 1 Eff ectiveness of national SEA systems: How are they making a diff erence? ............................. 11 Th eme 2 Sector-specifi c SEA: Are we getting it right? ................................................................................ 15 Th eme 3 Stakeholder engagement in SEA ..................................................................................................... 22 Th eme 4 Beyond current SEA practice .......................................................................................................... 25 Th eme 5 Addressing climate change in SEA ................................................................................................. 29 Th eme 6 SEA procedure and methods: Tackling the tougher issues? .......................................................33 Th eme 7 Linking SEA with other assessment and planning tools ..............................................................39 Th eme 8 Research and capacity development agenda ................................................................................. 45 Th eme 9 SEA and EU Cohesion Policy: Coming together or still far apart? ............................................ 48 Th eme 10 Towards good practice in SEA for development cooperation .................................................. 52 Th eme 11 SEA for policy-making: Lessons from Europe and internationally ........................................ 55 Posters ......................................................................................................................................................................... 62 General information ................................................................................................................................................. 66 SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 5 Final Program Welcome Dear Part icipants: We have the great pleasure to welcome you to Prague, the city of a hundred spires, many bridges and uncountable scenic views. For the second time in a decade, we are honoured to host on behalf of IAIA hundreds of the world’s foremost specialists in strategic environmental assessment. As a country which has used this tool for some fi ft een years, we appreciate the opportunity to off er a campus of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague for this meeting and the chance to share experience with colleagues from diff erent countries in Europe and around the globe. We hope that the conference will meet your expectations and that you will gain new ideas, make new friends, and also have time to become enchanted by our city, Prague. Within our power and on behalf of our colleagues from the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, we promise to do our best to assure the success of this conference. Petr Sklenicka Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Vladimir Zdrazil Secretary, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 6 Final Program Welcome Dear Colleagues: On behalf of the programme committee, we are delighted to welcome you to the IAIA special meeting on SEA. Th is is a follow up to our successful meeting of six years ago. In the interim, much has happened in this fast-moving fi eld, more than enough to make it worthwhile to revisit the state of SEA practice internationally and in the European Union in particular. Looking ahead, in June 2012, world leaders will be convening as part of the Rio+20 process to review progress toward sustainable development. SEA systems, currently in place in some 60 countries, off ers an important tool for this purpose that governments have yet to fully exploit. Yet we are also living in a time of economic restraint and fi nancial turmoil and some of you may wonder whether attending an international meeting on SEA is a worthwhile investment in such circumstances. We asked the same question during our initial discussions about orga- nizing a follow-up to the IAIA SEA 05 Prague. Our conclusion was that time is right precisely because the current economic crisis presents an opportunity for SEA practitioners to refl ect on whether we are doing things well, making a diff erence to decision-making and enhancing sustainability of proposed development plans, programmes or policies. Current demands for increased effi ciency and accountability in governance systems give us an opportunity to discuss what improvements are needed in SEA procedures and practices and how best to give them