Governance & Policy
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
Environmental assessment applied upstream to policies, plans and programmes, before individual projects are proposed.
Definition
Strategic environmental assessment is the systematic evaluation of the environmental — and often social and health — consequences of proposed policies, plans and programmes, conducted while alternatives are still open, before they are approved. Codified in the UNECE SEA Protocol (Kiev Protocol) and the EU SEA Directive (2001/42/EC), it extends impact assessment upstream from projects to the decisions that generate them.
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