INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1 Click to edit Master title style 1 Integrated Assessment and Planning for Sustainable

INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Integrated Assessment and Planningfor

Sustainable Development

Session 1

Jan Joost Kessler


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Aim of the session

To be able to explain the relationship of the IAP approach to other assessment methods


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Expected benefits from anIAP approach

• Creates insight on impacts of trade policies on ESE dimensions (environment and poverty).

• Informs policy makers including negotiators of trade agreements.

• Develops policy packages that help strengthen sustainable development and poverty reduction through trade.

• Enhances transparency and participation in policy dialogue and decision-making.

• Saves time and money by a coherent development approach.


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Methods to enhance Sustainable Development

• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

• Social Impact Assessment (SIA)

• Health Impact Assessment (HIA)

• Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

• Integrated Assessment (IA)

• Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA)

• Sustainability Assessment (SA)

• Etc.


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Environmental Assessment

« A systematic process for evaluating and documenting information on the potentials, capacities and functions of natural systems and resources in order to facilitate sustainable development planning and decision making in general, and to anticipate and manage the adverse effects and consequences of proposed undertakings in particular. » (Sadler, 1996)


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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

« Systematic examination of the consequences of a project, with a view of improving overall environmental quality, by reducing or mitigating the negative consequences and capitalising on the positive ones. »

Other definitions emphasise the process, or integration of social impacts.


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Question for discussion

Which other environmental assessment methods do exist?

What are the differences between them?


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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

« A systematic process for evaluating the environmental consequences of proposed policy, plan or programme initiatives to ensure they are properly included and appropriately addressed at the earliest possible stage of decision making, on a par with economic and social considerations. »

(Thérivel et al., 1994; Sadler & Verheem, 1996)


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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (continued)

• Basically designed to address environmental issues at strategic levels (i.e. of policies and strategic plans) in stead of projects.

• Advantages: proactive approach, involvement of decision makers at early stages, avoid better than cure.

• Approaches and definitions vary according to emphasis on the process, or level of integration.


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Sustainable Development

« Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. »

(World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)


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Sustainable Development (continued)

• Maintaining and improving per capita well-being.• Principles of intra- and inter-generational equity.• Need to strike a balance between environmental,

economic and social (ESE) issues.• Aims to reduce poverty, protect the environment

and stimulate economic growth - through trade.• Is a continuous process of change based on

principles of good governance.


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Principles of sustainable development – good governance

• Quality of the process of change

• Participation by relevant stakeholders

• Transparency

• Accountability

• Quality of information


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Dimensions of Sustainable Development

Environmental objectives Social objectives

Economic objectives

SD

environmental assessment

economic and social assessments


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Which methods on social and economic assessment do you know?


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From impact assessment to integrated assessment

Impact assessment – environmental dimension (e.g. EIA, SEA, biodiversity assessment)

Sustainability perspective: trade-off in time, spatial aspects, equity aspects, norms and standards

Integrated assessment – synergy, comparison between dimensions (e.g. resource valuation, scenarios)

Impact assessment – social dimension (e.g. gender assessment, poverty assessment)

Impact assessment – economic dimension (e.g. cost-benefit analysis, economic models)

Environmental sustainability

Social sustainability

Economic sustainability


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Which methods do you know to integrate or compare results of environmental, social and economic (ESE) assessments?


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Integrated Assessment

• Compares the different impacts and addresses the trade-offs between the three dimensions of sustainable development.

• For UNEP the focus will be on the trade-offs between trade (economic), environment and poverty (social).


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What are possible linkages between trade, poverty and environment, both positive and negative?


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Sustainability Assessment

Impact assessment – environmental dimension (e.g. EIA, SEA, biodiversity assessment)

Sustainability perspective: trade-off in time, spatial aspects, equity aspects, norms and standards

Integrated assessment – synergy, comparison between dimensions (e.g. resource valuation, scenarios)

Impact assessment – social dimension (e.g. gender assessment, poverty assessment)

Impact assessment – economic dimension (e.g. cost-benefit analysis, economic models)

Environmental sustainability

Social sustainability

Economic sustainability


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Sustainability Framework

• Derived from sustainability policies or international agreements, and/or by means of a stakeholder process

• Attention for spatial trade-off: HERE and THERE

• Attention for temporal trade-off: NOW and LATER

• Defines the criteria and norms of long-term and large-scale concerns, i.e. what should be sustained for future generations (later) and beyond the nation or locality (there).


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Sustainability Perspective

Space

Time

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there and later


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Three levels of integration applied within IAP

• Substantive integration: environmental, social and economic (ESE) pillars of sustainable development, possibly including a sustainability framework for long-term focus

• Integration of assessment methods and tools within the planning process

• Integration of good governance issues in the planning process: participation, transparency, accountability, information access

• All of this at the strategic level of policies and plans


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Framework for integrated assessment of a planning process

Elements of planning process

Environmental, social and economic impacts and issues

Trade-off, synergy against sustainability

reference points

Good governance issues and criteria of

a sound process 1. Initiation

2. Analysis

3. Design of strategy /

strategic planning

4. Design of actions /

operational planning

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monitoring

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How do the various assessment methods that we have discussed fit into the framework for IAP (figure on slide 23)?


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Group work

• Form four groups by region (Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe including Lebanon)

• Work on the UNEP IAP Framework to answer the question (Pick at least 5 methods from handout 1 based on your own experience)

• Prepare presentation on flipchart


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Improving the planning process through IAP

• IAP aims to improve an existing planning process by integrating assessment methods and tools in the planning process.

• IAP explores and evaluates interactions between the ESE dimensions of sustainable development, assesses possible trade-offs and/or synergies

• IAP places these consequences in a sustainability perspective.

• IAP aims to ensure that the process of planning and assessment meets good governance principles.

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