Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effectiveplanning of transport and land use. This is the first book to establish theeffective... » 

Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effectiveplanning of transport and land use. This is the first book to establish theeffectiveness of strategic environmental assessment SEA through comparativeanalysis of practice in three countries Britain The Netherlands and Germany.The author shows that use of SEA is widespread but far from systematic. Hedemonstrates the advantages of adopting a systematic application of acomprehensive form of SEA derived from all the major current approaches. Onlyonce this approach is fully understood and systematically applied will the fullbenefits be achieved and environmental impacts minimized.This is essentialreading for all those involved in planning transport and different forms ofland use and in environmental impact assessment. «