Course Schedule - GM0212 Masters Course

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1 Course Schedule - GM0212 Masters Course Strategic Environmental Assessment Integration of Environment in Strategic Planning and Decision-Making (Oct 9, 2014) Teachers Department Role Mail Phone Anders Ekbom (AE) Dept of Economics, GU Lecturer/ Examiner anders.ekbom@economics.gu.se Daniel Slunge (DS) Dept of Economics, GU Lecturer daniel.slunge@economics.gu.se GU= University of Gothenburg Note: All literature seminars, group /exercises and guest lectures are compulsory. 1

2 Week 40 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature Wed 1 Oct Lecture AE, DS GU Course introduction; Course rationale, objectives. Presentation of students, teachers, etc. Formalities and practicalities Intro to assignments Wed 1 Oct Fri 3 Oct Fri 3 Oct Lecture AE Introduction to SEA; Env problems and Systems and literature seminars Why SEA? Rationale. Introduction to systems: technical, social, environmental, economic systems Lecture AE Key concepts of SEA Screening, scoping, baseline, identifying env problems, stakeholders, decision, monitoring etc Lecture AE How to do SEA - the SEA Setting the context for SEA: screening, scoping, process (1) baselines, identifying env problems Therivel (2010) Chap 1-2 Rosenhead, (1989) Chap 5 Therivel (2010) Chap 1-2 OECD (2006) Therivel (2010) Chap 3, 5-6 SEPA (2010) Week 41 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature Mon 6 Oct Lecture, Group AE How to do SEA The SEA Process (2) - Case study SEA tools, Identifying alternatives, predicting, evaluating and mitigating env impacts, Therivel (2010) Chap 7-9, Appendix C ;, Case study material Mon 6 Oct Wed 8 Oct Wed 8 Oct Fri 10 Oct Fri 10 Oct Lecture, Group AE exercise How to do SEA (3) - Case study exercise Lecture AE Environmental priority setting Lecture AE Participation, stakeholder representation Lecture LG Legal aspects of SEA and Env management Students presentations DS SEA procedures in different contexts, different levels documentation, implementation, monitoring Analysis and application of SEA in fictive country case study - land use planning Rationale, methods for env priority setting (env risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, costeffectiveness analysis) Involvement of the public, strengthening voice of the poor, constituencies, tools for participation and stakeholder involvement International legal env. Frames, EU SEA directive, UNECE SEA Protocol, MEAs, other Presentation of examples of real SEAs Students make short presentations of SEA applications from their respective countries SEPA (2010) Therivel (2010) Chap 7-9, Case study material Ch. 4, Wilkins (2003) Ch. 5, Therivel (2010), p Wilkins (2003) Therivel (2010) Chap 4 and Appendix A and B; Marsden (2008) p OECD (2006); Week 42 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature Mon 13 Oct Rationale, institutional and political theories about the policy process Lecture DS Theories about the policy process and their implications for SEA Nitz and Brown, 2001 Therivel (2010), p Achmed and Sanchez Triana (2008), ch 3 Mon 13 Oct Wed 15 Oct Lecture DS The role of institutions in SEA and national SEA systems. Literature seminar 1 DS Integrating environment in policy making - linking theory and practice The role of institutions in SEA and implementation? How to undertake institutional analysis? Institutions for national SEA systems. Students critically discuss papers based on insights from lectures and course literature Ch. 8; Slunge and Tran, 2014; Kørnøv et al 2014 Kørnøv and Thissen (2000) Turnpenny, J et al (2008), Sanchez- Triana and Enriquez (2007) 2

3 Fri 17 Oct Lecture DS Accountability and policy learning Accountability and policy learning for enhanced env planning, decision-making and management Ch.6-7; Fri 17 Oct Lecture; group DS How to do SEA (5) - Evaluation and follow up SEA effectiveness Evaluation, SEA follow-up and monitoring of implementation; SEA effectiveness OECD (2006) Chap 6; Persson, Å. and Nilsson, M. (2007); Therivel (2010) Chap Slunge and Loayza (2012) Week 43 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature Mon 20 Oct Mon 20 Oct Wed 22 Oct Lecture DS Approaches and experiences from environmental policy integration Communicative, organizational and procedural instruments for environmental policy integration; Practical Applications Guest Lecture Mira Ovuka SEA in Practice Swedish Traffic Agency; Env integration in Western Transport link Literature AE Priority setting, seminar 2 Participation Students critically discuss papers & chapters based on insights from lectures and course literature Wed 22 Oct Group exercise AE Work on Country case study Fri 24 Oct Guest Lecture Mats-Ola Larsson SEA in Practice Practical experiences from ing w. Strategic evn integration; Gbg Municipality Fri 24 Oct Guest lecture T b d SEA in Practice Practical experiences from ing w. SEA Week 44 Day Date Time Location Teacher Lecture theme Content Literature Mon 27 Oct Optional Mon 27 Oct Summary, AE, DS Summary, discussion, Q&A discussion, Q&A Fri 31 Oct Exam* Submission of Exam, Course evaluation Note: Submission of home exam by course examiner to students Tuesday Oct 28, 10 am. Deadline for submission of home exam by students to course examiner (anders.ekbom@gu.se) Oct 31, 1 pm. SEPA 2012 OECD Environmental Performance Review - Sweden Wilkins (2003); Thomas and Grindle (1990) Course literature Books: Ahmed, Kulsum and Sanchez-Triana, Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies An Instrument for Good Governance, World Bank, Washington DC. (219 pages). PK:244381~isCURL:Y,00.html Therivél, Riki, Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action. Second edition, Earthscan, UK. (335 pages) 3

4 Book chapters: Marsden, Simon, Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law. Earthscan; pages Rosenhead, Jonathan, Rational analysis for a problematic world. Wiley, Chapter 4-5 about soft systems methodologies (pp ); see course webpage/handout Scientific Papers: Kørnøv, Lone and Wil Thissen (2000) Rationality in decision- and policy-making: implications for strategic environmental assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 18 (3) pp Kørnøv, Lone, Zhang, Jie and Christensen Per (2014) The influence of street level bureaucracy on the implementation of Strategic Environmental Assessment. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, DOI: / Nitz, Tracey and A.L. Brown (2001) SEA must learn how policy making s. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 3 ( 3) pp Persson, Åsa and Nilsson, Måns (2007) Towards a Frame for SEA Follow-Up: Theoretical Issues and Lessons from Policy Evaluation. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 9 (4) pp Sanchez-Triana and Enriquez (2007), Using policy-based SEA in water supply and sanitation sector reforms: the case of Argentina and Colombia, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 25 (3), pp Slunge, Daniel and Tran Tran Challenges to Institutionalizing Strategic Environmental Assessment the Case of Vietnam. Environmental impact assessment review. 48 s Slunge, Daniel and Fernando Loayza Greening Growth through Strategic Environmental Assessment of Sector Reforms. Public Administration and Development, 32 ( 3 ) s Thomas, John W. and Grindle, Merilee S.,1990. After the Decision: Implementing Policy Reforms in Developing Countries, World Development, 18 (8):

5 Turnpenny, J et al (2008) Why is integrating policy assessment so hard? A comparative analysis of the institutional capacities and constraints, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 51, No 6 Wilkins, Hugh, The Need for Subjectivity in EIA: Discourse as a Tool for Sustainable Development, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 23, p Reports: OECD, Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment: Good practice guidance for development co-operation OECD DAC Guidelines and reference series, OECD, 160 pages; OECD Environmental Performance Review of Sweden - Highlights, 13 pages Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) Practical guidelines on strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes. Report 6383; Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) In-depth evaluation of Sweden s environmental objectives. Executive summary, page Recommended background reading: Hill, Michael The Public Policy Process. Fifth Edition, Pearson. World Bank, Strategic Environmental Assessment in Policy and Sector Reform: Conceptual Model and Operational Guidance 5