Achakzai, Palwasha <br/><br/>
Analysis of development of strategic environmental assessment process in the tropical developing countries with regard to coastal and riverine water environment 

 - Pathum Thani, Thailand :  Asian Institute of Technology,  2010 
 - 64 leaves :  ill.  +  1 online resource 
 - Thesis ;  no. EV-10-24 .
 - Asian Institute of Technology.  Thesis ;  no. EV-10-24 .
<br/><br/> A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the  degree of Master of Science in Environmental Engineering and Management 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2010 
<br/><br/> Governments and environmental assessment (EA) show their great interest for the potential environmental  consequences  produced  by  the  decision  made  at  the  policy,  planning  and programmatic levels. After a comprehensive review of SEA, key practical issues have been raised by practitioners and  it  was  found  that  SEA  is  facing  problems  not  only  in  developing  countries  but  also developed  countries.  The  problems  consist  of  taking  insufficient  care  for  SEA  laws  and regulation, the behavior and understanding of decision makers, quantitative methods instead of stakeholders opinion, minimum public participation, insufficient information and institutional conflicts.  There are different methods to evaluate SEA that includes evaluation of SEA process or SEA reports etc. Lee and Colley review package is the best method for the SEA process evaluation and achieving its standards. Using the aforementioned package, different shortcomings were identified in the reports of tropical developing countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and Laos. In this context the short comings were incomplete data, lack of public participation, insufficient information  about  consultation  of  stakeholders,  less  information  about  difficulties  and maximizing of beneficial effects and information about SEA directives.  In  order  to  make  more  effective  SEA  report  it  is  better  to  follow  the  SEA  Directives Requirements. If short comings can be removed it will help to make better SEA reports. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmental impact analysis--Developing countries