Strategic Environmental Assessment : an Instrument to Implement the Adaptation of Regional Land Use to Global Climate Change with the Aim to Mitigate Environmental and Social Impacts?

  • The paper deals with the methodological application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in German regional land use planning (SEA-REP) with emphasis on quantitative indicators and assessment thresholds for impact assessment and the comparison of alternatives. A future key role of regional planning in cooperation with sector planning such as agriculture and forestry under climate change is determined. It is investigated, how SEA-REP as decision-aiding instrument can contribute to an adaptation of the regions to climate change with the objective to mitigate negative impacts on the environment and societies by creating a framework for systematic implementation of quantitative indicators and assessment values. A core problem during the selection of indicators for land uses for the adaptation to climate change (here: called LUCCA) as part of SEA-REP and the derivation of assessment thresholds is a lack of region-wide objectives for the protection of land and resources. At the same time climate change is so far not sufficientThe paper deals with the methodological application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in German regional land use planning (SEA-REP) with emphasis on quantitative indicators and assessment thresholds for impact assessment and the comparison of alternatives. A future key role of regional planning in cooperation with sector planning such as agriculture and forestry under climate change is determined. It is investigated, how SEA-REP as decision-aiding instrument can contribute to an adaptation of the regions to climate change with the objective to mitigate negative impacts on the environment and societies by creating a framework for systematic implementation of quantitative indicators and assessment values. A core problem during the selection of indicators for land uses for the adaptation to climate change (here: called LUCCA) as part of SEA-REP and the derivation of assessment thresholds is a lack of region-wide objectives for the protection of land and resources. At the same time climate change is so far not sufficient considered in regional land use planning. It is investigated how regional planning could integrate site-specific designations and objectives for an adaptation to impacts caused by climate change. The proposed SEA-REP indicator system integrates mitigation and adaptation measures for environmental and social impacts of climate change, which are evaluated by indicators and assessment thresholds for LUCCA. These involve designations of specific land uses and priority areas for climate protection and human recreation, ecological wildlife networks, flooded sites, areas affected by sea level rise, areas for water storage and carbon storage as-well-as alternative land cultivation. The overall objective of the research focuses on a proposal of regional environmental and social orientation objectives, indicators and the derivation of assessment thresholds for an adaptation of German regional land uses to climate change.show moreshow less

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Author: Hendrike Helbron
URL:http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2008/papers/bc2008_128_Helbron.pdf
Title of the source (English):2008 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change - Long-Term Policies: Governing Social Ecological Change (Online-Proceedings)
Publisher:FU Berlin
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of publication:2008
First Page:1
Last Page:12
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 2 Umwelt und Naturwissenschaften / FG Umweltplanung
Institution name at the time of publication:Fakultät für Umweltwissenschaften und Verfahrenstechnik (eBTU) / LS Umweltplanung
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