The strategic environmental assessment directive : a plan for success? / edited by Gregory Jones QC and Eloise Scotford

Includes bibliographical references and index

The history and context of the SEA directive / Robert McCracken QC and Ned Westaway -- The transposition of the SEA directive / Gregory Jones QC -- Plans and programmes under the SEA directive / Valerie Fogleman -- The meaning of "required by legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions?" / Simon Ricketts and Juliet Munn -- The meaning of "Early and effective opportunity" for consultation / Stephen Ashworth and Rachael Herbert -- The role of alternatives in the SEA directive / David Elvin QC -- From SA to SEA : sustainability appraisals and strategic environmental assessment / Jack Connah and Stephanie Hall -- Examining the purpose and impact of the SEA directive : Blazing upstream? strategic environmental assessment as hot law / Elizabeth Fisher -- Streamlining the SEA process / William R Sheate -- SEA and the control of government environmental policy / Eloise Scotford -- SEA of non-town and country planning plans or programmes / Gregory Jones QC and David Graham -- Strategic environmental assessment and water framework directives / William Howarth -- Uncharted waters : SEA in the UK offshore area / Richard Caddell -- Strategic environmental assessment in a cold climate : the Scottish experience / Colin Reid and Denis Edwards -- Any seaport in a storm : the Northern Ireland SEA experience / William Orbinson QC -- Strategic environmental assessment : the Irish experience / Muine Ryall -- Afterword : Aarhus and HS2 / Richard Macrory and Gregory Jones QC