Application of the SEA Directive to EU structural funds: Perspectives on effectiveness

Abstract

The results indicate that transactive and substantive effectiveness are intrinsically linked and that both cases demonstrated some substantive effectiveness, but only one was transactively effective. Effectiveness was judged to be a function of design, procedure, substance as well as transaction, influenced by political issues. As with other research, we find that perspectives of effectiveness are very much driven by individual expectabons, suggesting that a true measure of effectiveness might be the extent to which SEA can change expectations. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Strategic Environmental Assessment; Transactive and substantive effectiveness; European Union structural funds; Lisbon Agenda; Cardiff Process

Published in

Environmental Impact Assessment Review
2010, volume: 30, number: 2, pages: 136-144
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

SLU Authors

• Cashmore, Matthew

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • University of East Anglia

UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography
Environmental Management

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2009.08.001

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