- ClientSOGESID
- Year 2012
- Sectors Public Administrations
- Services Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Reports
- Stage of Activity Attività completata. Lavoro pubblicato: http://www.pongas.minambiente.it/studi-di-settore-7b/misura-7b/studi-di-settore
Sector study - Methodology for evaluation of options during SEA Procedures
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The study is one of the initiatives promoted by the Ministry of the Environment concerning European procedures PON GAS 2007/2013 and focuses on the theme of the alternatives in the SEA process. The contents of the study have been agreed with the Directorate for Environmental Assessment of the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea. The study is divided into an analytic phase and a proposal phase.
The first part deals with a fact-finding analysis in international, european, national, regional and local contexts. Through the analysis of case studies, the survey examines how the issue of alternatives is faced in VAS studies, and focuses on the instruments and the modeling used.
The second part, has been developed starting from the key findings showed during the Workshop organized by the Ministry in October 2012 on the theme “Generation and Alternative Assessment”. During this Workshop, activities related to the Study, the objectives and the first results obtained have been presented.
Finally, the study identifies a number of methodological proposals as follows: Definition of alternative scenarios as possible visions of the plan’s effects, techniques of construction of alternative scenarios, definition of alternatives for subsequent in-depth degrees, description of scenarios, evaluation and comparison of the alternative scenarios .