Session 1

INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING
FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Integrated Assessment and Planning
for
Sustainable Development
Session 1

Jan Joost Kessler
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Aim of the session

To be able to explain the relationship of the
IAP approach to other assessment methods

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Expected benefits from an
IAP approach
Creates insight on impacts of trade policies on ESE
dimensions (environment and poverty).
Informs policy makers including negotiators of trade
agreements.
Develops policy packages that help strengthen sustainable
development and poverty reduction through trade.
Enhances transparency and participation in policy dialogue
and decision-making.
Saves time and money by a coherent development approach.
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Methods to enhance Sustainable
Development

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
Integrated Assessment (IA)
Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA)
Sustainability Assessment (SA)
Etc.
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Environmental Assessment
A systematic process for evaluating and
documenting information on the potentials,
capacities and functions of natural systems and
resources in order to facilitate sustainable
development planning and decision making in
general, and to anticipate and manage the adverse
effects and consequences of proposed
undertakings in particular. (Sadler, 1996)
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Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA)
Systematic examination of the consequences of a
project, with a view of improving overall
environmental quality, by reducing or mitigating the
negative consequences and capitalising on the
positive ones.
Other definitions emphasise the process, or
integration of social impacts.
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Question for discussion

Which other environmental assessment
methods do exist?

What are the differences between them?

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Strategic Environmental Assessment
(SEA)
A systematic process for evaluating the
environmental consequences of proposed policy,
plan or programme initiatives to ensure they are
properly included and appropriately addressed at
the earliest possible stage of decision making, on
a par with economic and social considerations.
(Thrivel et al., 1994; Sadler & Verheem, 1996)
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Strategic Environmental Assessment
(SEA) (continued)
Basically designed to address environmental
issues at strategic levels (i.e. of policies and
strategic plans) in stead of projects.
Advantages: proactive approach, involvement of
decision makers at early stages, avoid better than
cure.
Approaches and definitions vary according to
emphasis on the process, or level of integration.

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Sustainable development is development that
meets the needs of the present generation without
compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.
(World Commission on Environment and Development,
1987)
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(continued)
Maintaining and improving per capita well-being.
Principles of intra- and inter-generational equity.
Need to strike a balance between environmental,
economic and social (ESE) issues.
Aims to reduce poverty, protect the environment
and stimulate economic growth - through trade.
Is a continuous process of change based on
principles of good governance.
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Principles of sustainable development
good governance
Quality of the process of change
Participation by relevant stakeholders
Transparency
Accountability
Quality of information
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Dimensions of Sustainable
Development
Environmental
objectives
Social objectives
Economic objectives
SD
environmental assessment
economic and social
assessments
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Which methods on social and economic
assessment do you know?
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From impact assessment to
integrated assessment
Impact assessment
environmental dimension
(e.g. EIA, SEA, biodiversity
assessment)
Sustainability perspective: trade-off in time,
spatial aspects, equity aspects, norms and
standards
Integrated assessment synergy, comparison
between dimensions (e.g. resource valuation,
scenarios)
Impact assessment social
dimension (e.g. gender
assessment, poverty
assessment)
Impact assessment
economic dimension (e.g.
cost-benefit analysis,
economic models)
Environmental
sustainability
Social
sustainability
Economic
sustainability
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Which methods do you know to integrate or
compare results of environmental, social
and economic (ESE) assessments?
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Integrated Assessment
Compares the different impacts and addresses the
trade-offs between the three dimensions of
sustainable development.
For UNEP the focus will be on the trade-offs
between trade (economic), environment and
poverty (social).
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What are possible linkages between trade,
poverty and environment, both positive
and negative?

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Sustainability Assessment
Impact assessment
environmental dimension
(e.g. EIA, SEA, biodiversity
assessment)
Sustainability perspective: trade-off in time,
spatial aspects, equity aspects, norms and
standards
Integrated assessment synergy, comparison
between dimensions (e.g. resource valuation,
scenarios)
Impact assessment social
dimension (e.g. gender
assessment, poverty
assessment)
Impact assessment
economic dimension (e.g.
cost-benefit analysis,
economic models)
Environmental
sustainability
Social
sustainability
Economic
sustainability
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Sustainability Framework
Derived from sustainability policies or international
agreements, and/or by means of a stakeholder process
Attention for spatial trade-off: HERE and THERE
Attention for temporal trade-off: NOW and LATER
Defines the criteria and norms of long-term and large-scale
concerns, i.e. what should be sustained for future
generations (later) and beyond the nation or locality (there).
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Sustainability Perspective
Space
Time
community
family
nation
myself
planet
there and
later
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Three levels of integration applied
within IAP
Substantive integration: environmental, social and
economic (ESE) pillars of sustainable development,
possibly including a sustainability framework for
long-term focus
Integration of assessment methods and tools within
the planning process
Integration of good governance issues in the
planning process: participation, transparency,
accountability, information access
All of this at the strategic level of policies and plans
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Framework for integrated assessment
of a planning process
Elements of planning
process
Environmental,
social and economic
impacts and issues
Trade-off, synergy
against sustainability
reference points
Good governance
issues and criteria of
a sound process
1. Initiation

2. Analysis

3. Design of strategy /
strategic planning

4. Design of actions /
operational planning

5. Implementation and
monitoring

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How do the various assessment methods
that we have discussed fit into the
framework for IAP (figure on slide 23)?
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Group work
Form four groups by region (Africa, Latin
America, Asia, Europe including Lebanon)
Work on the UNEP IAP Framework to
answer the question (Pick at least 5 methods
from handout 1 based on your own
experience)
Prepare presentation on flipchart
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Improving the planning process
through IAP
IAP aims to improve an existing planning process by
integrating assessment methods and tools in the
planning process.
IAP explores and evaluates interactions between the
ESE dimensions of sustainable development,
assesses possible trade-offs and/or synergies
IAP places these consequences in a sustainability
perspective.
IAP aims to ensure that the process of planning and
assessment meets good governance principles.

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