The development of environmental indicators for assessing, demonstrating and predicting environmental impact of proposed plans has been carried out in order to enable practitioners to meet the requirements of the EU Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directive (2001/42/EC) ?on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment?. The SEA Directive was transposed into Irish law in July 2004 and hardly any research had been carried out on this subject prior to this time. The primary aims of this research were to; (a) develop a set of environmental indicators capable of demonstrating environmental impact of proposed plans and programmes, (b) establish a methodology by which SEA practitioners could devise plan specific environmental indicators and (c) ensure high quality environmental indicators were established by providing selection criteria and a quality checklist for the chosen environmental indicators. This is the first research of its kind to be carried out in Ireland.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=198
Resource Keywords	indicators Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2004-SEA-FS-19-M4
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Not Applicable
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
Limitations on the use of this Resource	Cite Author/source in usage
Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download):	2
Project Start Date	Thursday 1st January 2004 (01-01-2004)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Wednesday 31st December 2008 (31-12-2008)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Wednesday 31st December 2008 (31-12-2008)
Published on SAFER	Tuesday 14th December 2010 (14-12-2010)
Date of Last Edit	Tuesday 14th December 2010 at 17:29:14 (14-12-2010)
Datasets or Files Updated On	Tuesday 14th December 2010 at 17:26:39 (14-12-2010)

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