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Opinion of tools
Name der Fallstudie
Strategic Environmental Assessment(SEA)in Copenhagen
Strategische UmweltprĂĽfung (SUP)in Kopenhagen
Name of tool
SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment)
Opinion of tool - argumentation for choosing the tool
The implementation of the tool is due to the EU-directive on SEA. The municipality of Copenhagen took the initiative to use the tool, although the use of the tool is a legal requirement – Directive 2001/42/EC as of July 2004.</p>
<p> There was no knowledge of any other tools. Experiences on SEA were collected from other municipalities at the beginning of the process (including the municipality of Hillerød and Local Government Denmark (LGDK)) who has experience in implementing SEA in four municipalities. However, the general impression was that these municipalities had not been involved in the process for long enough for their experiences to be useful as input for SEA in Copenhagen. </p>
<p>The procedure fits well into the municipality´s general environmental policy. For instance, the scoping on SEA is parallel to the mapping in the Dogma-2000 (see case study: DOGME 2000: Sustainable Municipality Network). </p>
Opinion of tool - barriers for the tool implementation
The main challenge has been to find a way to make a simple assessment method, useable by the departments in the Municipality. The main problems of using the method was identified as:<br>
• The aim and the target group for the assessments were unclear<br>
• Unclear ambition level of the assessment in the guidelines <br>
• Ambiguous concept of environment in the guidelines and tools<br>
• Lack of attention on environmental assessment<br>
• Long process</p>
Opinion of tool - assessment by tool users
It is too early to identify any improvements as a result of using the SEA tool. The main problems identified, according to the evaluation of the first procedure, were:
? The aim and the target group for the assessments were unclear
? Unclear ambition level of the assessment in the guidelines
? Ambiguous concept of environment in the guidelines and tools
? Lack of attention on environmental assessment
? Long process
It is expected that the procedure will mainly be used in the Department of Building and Technique and the Department of Environment and Supply, where the assessments are most relevant. Whether the actors recommend this tool (the second version of applying SEA to the Municipality of Copenhagen) or not will depend on the second evaluation.
Opinion of tool - reviewer\'s assessment
So far, the method for applying SEA in the Municipality of Copenhagen has focused on ensuring a consistent method of assessments from the departments. Compared to the intentions of SEA, the following elements are less developed, or absent in the Copenhagen methodology:
? Assessing alternatives to the presented proposals
? Participation of stakeholders and citizens
? Monitoring and review
There is still a need to develop the methodology on these points, however, in a form that allows integration in the existing procedures.
Welche Tools wurden verwendet, um Nachhaltigkeit zu beurteilen?
SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment)
Weiterführende Informationen (nur auf Englisch):