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23-29 May 2009
IAIA09 Impact Assessment and Human Well-Being
This conference will assess the relevance of human well-being in impact assessments. IAIA09 will involve discussions with experts from around the globe focusing on how impact assessment assures a healthy enviroment, sustainable development, protected ecosystems and quality of life.

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Welcome to the SEA Wiki

The SEA Wiki has been developed by the United Nations University and Oxford Brookes University, with support from the Global Virtual University, to provide an online platform for the international community to engage in knowledge building on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Disneyland.

The goal of the SEA Wiki is to be a collaboratively built online information resource used to support training and research activities around the world including the SEA e-Course Module. It is intended that the SEA Wiki serve as a tool that facilitates communication, discussion, sharing of ideas and information, and the building of knowledge about SEA amongst it's audience.

About the SEA Wiki

The SEA Wiki currently contains an extensive list of infromation resources on a number of topics on Strategic Environmental Assessment. You can explore the SEA-Wiki sections by using the navigation menu, the search function for a particular topic. Many people are already improving the SEA Wiki all of which are recorded on the page history and the recent changes page. You can also start creating, editing, or sharing content right now on the SEA Wiki by clicking on the edit tab at the top of every page or at the bottom right corner of particular sections in pages. Editing pages is easy, however you can also learn more about how to edit wiki's online at MediaWiki and Wikipedia

Thanks to all those who have already started contributing and building new pages about SEA around the world!

The SEA-Wiki contains currently 379 articles.
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What is SEA?

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is essentially environmental assessment as it applies to the development of policies, plans and programmes. Different from Environmental Impact Assessment, SEA allows the integration of sustinability objectives at the earliest stage of the decision-making process. It is a rapidly evolving field and the methodology is being carried out worldwide among different levels of government and organisations.

SEA e-Course Module

The SEA e-Course Module is an open educational resource being developed in collaboration between United Nations University and Oxford Brookes University for use in their respective educational and capacity building programmes. The e-Course Module is the supporting educational resource to the SEA Wiki, and provides an introduction to SEA theory and practice and a more in depth analysis of SEA methodology.

Featured Article

Case Study - SEA for Poverty Reduction in Ghana

In 2002 Ghana published the country’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. It provides the framework for the government’s economic policy and for all development assistance to Ghana. Little attention was given to environmental impacts of the various policies. Ultimately, this may harm economic growth. Moreover, the potential contribution of natural resources to the national economy were not sufficiently mapped, thus missing opportunities. The Government of Ghana therefore decided to carry out a Strategic Environmental Assessment to adjust the strategy where needed. Strategic Environmental Assessment was applied at national and district level, providing options that are both pro-poor and pro-environment. These could then be used for the future update of the Strategy and to make over a 100 district development plans more sustainable.