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Urban Infrastructure

Urban Infrastructure covers areas such as housing and land, waste management, urban services, and local economic development.  It includes sub-sectors such as Urban Water and Sanitation, and Urban Transport.  The SEA tookit also covers these issues in the water,transport, and environment (brown issues) pages.


Urban infrastructure is linked to the environment through pollution management and public health issues. In developing countries, rapid urbanization is a major challenge that may have significant health related environmental impacts affecting poor people. SEA is the tool needed to focus on the health-environment dimension of urban infrastructure planning. It also helps to bring in the planning process the voice and needs of those most affected by the environmental degradation originated in accelerated urbanization.

 

 

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General Documents and Links

 

blue bullet World Bank Environmental Assessment Sourcebook Chapter 9: Population Health and Nutrition; Urban Development; Transportation; and Water Supply and Sewerage (1999)

blue bullet World Bank Environmental Assessment Sourcebook Update No. 19 on Assessing Environmental Impact of Urban Development (1997)

 

Sub-Sectors/Issues

More Information and Links

Urban Development

blue bullet El Salvador: Evaluacion Ambiental Estrategica (EAE) - Programa De Desarrollo Sostenible De La Zona Norte De El Salvador Informe Final (In Spanish only) (Government of El Salvador, 2006).

 

blue bullet European Union: Case Studies on SEA Summary (European Commission, 2005), including

  • France: SEA for urban land use planning in Rennes
  • Italy: An SEA for the Municipal Land Use Management Plan of Arvier, Valle d'Aosta
  • Netherlands: An SEA for site selection of residential areas at Zaanstad
  • Sweden: SEA for a Municipal Land Use Plan at Korsta-Petersvik

blue bullet European Union: Sustainable Development of Urban Histrical Areas Through An Active Integration Within Towns (SUIT) Project Report (European Communities, 2004). It is a guidance for the Environmental Assessment of the impacts of certain plans, programmes or projects upon the heritage value of historical areas, in order to contribute to their long-term sustainability.

 

blue bullet Indonesia: Bali Urban Infrastructure Program, Umbrella Environmental Assessment Executive Summary including TOR (TOR is on page 133), public Consultation (DHV Consultants BV and others, 1996) and a presentation (by T. Walton, World Bank, 2005)

 

blue bullet Rapid Environmental Assessment Checklist for Urban Development, in Environmental Assessment Guidelines (page 128) (Asian Development Bank, 2003)

 

blue bullet South Africa: An SEA for the City of uMhlathuze (City of uMhlathuze, 2002).  This is part of the city's Integrated Development Plan (IDP).  The SEA consists of a State of the Environment Report, a Strategic Environmental Management Plan, and a Core Set of Environmental Indicators Report. 

 

blue bullet South Africa: East London Industrial Development Zone SEA.  It is one of the cases studied in International Review of SEA Experience and Practice, Chapter 6: SEA Experience in Developing Countries (page 259) (International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005).

 

 

Integrated Urban Management

blue bulletSee Administrative Area Based Development 

 

 

                          



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