scholarly journals Strategic Environmental Assessment System and a Case Study on a Spatial Plan in the Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihoko MATSUYUKI
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Spatial Plan

BIODIVERSITY IN SEA FOR SPATIAL PLANS — EXPERIENCES FROM THE NETHERLANDS

2005 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 267-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
AREND KOLHOFF ◽  
ROEL SLOOTWEG
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
International Guidelines ◽  
Spatial Plan ◽  
The Way ◽  
Multiple Interventions

This paper provides an overview of the way biodiversity issues are dealt with in strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for spatial plans in the Netherlands. Spatial plans are selected as subject of study because 50 percent of all SEA studies executed in the Netherlands are carried out for spatial plans. Secondly, these plans provide an overarching framework for multiple interventions with potential impacts on biodiversity. It is, therefore, important to pay particular attention to biodiversity at the strategic level of a spatial plan. The evaluation is based on five spatial plans that have been subject to SEA, two national plans, two provincial plans and one local plan. Based on these assessments a number of conclusions are presented on the assessment of biodiversity in SEA for spatial plans in the Netherlands. The evaluation of case studies on which this paper is based was undertaken to produce a submission to the Convention on Biological Diversity for the drafting of international guidelines on biodiversity in SEA.

scholarly journals Exploring the Contradiction in the Ethos of Urban Practitioners under Neoliberalism: A Case Study of Housing Production in Chile

2020 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2097168
Author(s):  
Francisco Vergara-Perucich ◽  
Camillo Boano
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
The Relationship

This article problematizes the relationship between the ethos of urban practitioners and the ideology of neoliberalism to show how neoliberalism has transformed urban design to make it an efficient mechanism for capital accumulation. The method used in the article is based on archival research and statistical analysis in addition to a comparative housing sample in Chile from the Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental (Environmental Assessment System). What emerges from such unpacking is a severe contradiction stemming from the clash between urban practitioners’ ethical responsibility in developing good cities and the neoliberalist goal of merely increasing the profitability of spaces. The article discusses the political and ideological dimensions of neoliberal urbanisms and the effects of neoliberalism in everyday urban practice of making in neoliberal urbanisms and discusses how to separate urban design practices from the profit-oriented ethos.

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