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Project summary
Name of the case study
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Copenhagen.
Where is it located?
Denmark
What type of activity is it?
The tool provides an assessment of policies, plans and programmes.
Short description of the case study
The case describes the implementation of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in the municipality of Copenhagen. Since 2001, the municipality of Copenhagen has worked to implement the European SEA-directive. In practice this means finding a way of assessing all proposals (laws, policies, plans etc.) from departments in the municipality, so that environmental implications are taken into considerations when the proposals are assessed by the relevant committees and the politicians in the city council.
A first version of the SEA procedure was developed and tested over the period of a year, from 2001 to 2002. In 2002 the procedure was evaluated by external consultants, focusing on different departments’ experiences with the SEA-procedure. From this evaluation, the SEA-procedure has been revised, and is now in the process of gaining political approval and implementation. When the new version of the SEA-procedure has been used for about a year, it will be evaluated, this time focusing on the politicians´ views on the output of the procedure.
The SEA-procedure is holistic, and operates with 9 environmental themes: Resources, waste, air, noise, water (groundwater, sewage, surface-water), soil, green areas, traffic, risk in production, and health. Therefore the case study is - in principal - related to key issues in all sectors.
What tools were used to assess sustainability?
SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment)
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