Good Practice Recommendations on Public Participation in Strategic Environmental Assessment

Prepared under the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention)

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

• Publisher: United Nations
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9789210578172
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Organizaciones intergubernamentales

The recommendations are based on existing good practice and are intended as a practical tool to provide helpful guidance and to improve the implementation of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention in decision-making to: a) to assist Parties when designing their legal framework on public participation in environmental decision-making; b) to assist public officials on a day-to-day basis when designing and carrying out public participation procedures on environmental decision-making under the Convention, and c) to provide an invaluable tool through which to share expertise and good practice so as to promote early, timely and effective opportunities for such participation. They may also be of value to members of the public, including NGOs and the private sector.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Summary
• Table of Contents
• 1. Introduction to public participation in strategic environmental assessment
• 2. Public participation requirements in the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment
• 3. General principles of public participation in strategic environmental assessment
• 4 Public participation at different stages of strategic environmental assessment
• 5. Issues regarding public participation in strategic environmental assessment
• 6. Participation in a transboundary context
• Annex