Urmila Jha-Thakur

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the extent to which strategic environmental assessment (SEA) can facilitate learning at an organisational and individual level, and ultimately achieve effectiveness based on the assumption that SEA effectiveness can be achieved if policy, programme and plan-making are oriented towards both the continuous improvement of decision-making and the associated implementation processes.

TL;DR: The European Union Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive has had a major impact on decision-making practices in EU member states as discussed by the authors, with an emphasis being given in particular to procedural elements and the extent to which EIA has contributed to objectives, such as raising environmental awareness and leading to an incorporation of environmental values in decision making.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the UK EIA system, providing insights into its evolution and reflecting on perceptions of effectiveness of the EIA systems, is presented, where the authors adopts a similar approach used by Glasson in 1999, where he provided a review, complimented by a SWOT analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results of an international comparative research project, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC), on the "learning potential of appraisal (strategic environmental assessment) in spatial planning".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore whether context conditions can facilitate internal organisational reforms and changes, trigger appraisal effectiveness, and facilitate organisational learning, and suggest that sensitivity to internal context conditions is critical to understanding the capacity for organizations to learn.