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Panel session on SEA and Land Governance - June 30th
June 30 - Gwen van Boven and Leyla Özay will facilitate one of the panel sessions at the upcoming international conference of LANDac, the Netherlands Academy on Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development. This year’s conference 'Land, Crisis and Resilience', focusses on the challenges that global, intertwining crises pose to land governance systems, processes and actors.
The NCEA session on June 30th discusses how Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) can help to sustain land governance solutions. For more information on this topic, please check out our new keysheet.
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Environmental Assessment for coastal protection - West Africa
June 9 - As part of the World Bank’s West Africa Coastal Areas Programme (WACA), the WACA-team organised a workshop on the importance of Environmental Assessment for sustainable decision-making on coastal protection. The NCEA was invited to share its experiences in West Africa, including an ESIA for a project that has coastal impacts in Senegal, and a transboundary ESIA in Benin and Togo. The WACA-team and the NCEA are looking forward to more collaboration on this topic.
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Presentation of the SEA - hydropower publication at webinar series
June 9 - Arend Kolhoff (NCEA) and David Annandale (independent consultant) presented the recent publication SEA for Sustainable Development of the Hydropower Sector and the Pakistan case at the webinar Strategic Planning and Sustainable Infrastructure Development.
The webinar is part of the series 'Sustainable Infrastructure: Puttting Principeles into Practice', organised by the Sustainable Infrastructure Community.
The recording of this webinar can be viewed at the series' website.
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Just published: SEA for Sustainable Development of the Hydropower Sector
May 19 - We are happy to announce the publication of Strategic Environmental Assessment for Sustainable Development of the Hydropower Sector: Five Influential Cases - India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Rwanda, Viet Nam.
A comprehensive publication on how to work towards a more sustainable hydropower sector. By using SEA as a strategic decision support tool, negative impacts in relation to building and exploiting hydropower dams can be mitigated. The publication includes:
- separate summaries for decision-makers and dam owners
- a list of all SEAs carried out for hydropower developments
- a list of SEAs carried out for multi-sector plans and policies
- overview and relation between current decisions-support tools in addition to SEA
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IAIA award best paper for Sibout Nooteboom
May 18 - It is with great pleasure that we inform you that our colleague Sibout Nooteboom has been awarded the IAIA best paper award 2020 for Environmental Assessment as an Institution of Liberal Democracy. Sibout has been involved in Environmental Assessment for many years and works for the NCEA since 2016. Currently, the primary focus of his (academic) work is the relationship between Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Governance.
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