Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) provides the opportunity to identify, predict, report and mitigate the environmental impacts of certain proposed public sector plans and programmes. EnviroCentre provides a range if SEA consultancy services, through its multi-disciplinary team and partnerships with leading SEA researchers and practitioners. Services can be provided to support;

• Implementation framework development;
• Capacity-building and training;
• Quality Review and verification of Environmental Reports;
• Technical aspects of environmental assessment;
• Gap analysis of environmental baseline information;
• Stakeholder engagement and consultation;
• Environmental policy development and implementation; and
• Facilitation of internal and external workshops.

1. Scottish Executive SEA Pathfinder Project (current)
2. SNIFFER: Practical SEA Guidance for Practitioners on How to Take Account of air, Water and Soil (current)
3. Scottish Enterpris: SEA of Strategic Investment Plan
4. South Lanarkshire Council: Lanarkshire Tourism Action Plan SEA (current)
5. Irvine Bay Urban Regeneration Compnay: Business Plan/ masterplan SEA (current)
6. Deer Commission for Scotland: Management Strategy for Wild Deer SEA (current)
7. Fife Council: State of the Environment Report
8. Fife Council: SEA Implementation Framework Guidance & Training
9. SEPA: SEA Verification for Lothian and Borders & Glasgow and Clyde Valley Area Waste Plan Alterations
10. CAG Consultants for West Dunbartonshire Council: Community Plan SEA Environmental Baseline
11. Scottish Borders Council: SEA Capacity Building & Training
12. London Borough of Hounslow: SEA Implementation Training

For more information about these projects plese click here.

For further information regarding SEA projects and services please contact;

Further information regarding SEA and access to the SEA Gateway is available on the Scottish Executive SEA webpage www.scotland.gov.uk
Follow links to: Topics > Environment > Sustainable Development > Strategic Environmental Assessment

Presentations and Seminars

Bournemouth 04/06/08: IEMA Annual conference 2008
Workshop: 'SEA Guidance & Recommendations for Good Practice', Natasha Medeira & Lucila Lantschner (EnviroCentre)

Glasgow 10/12/07: GSES Seminar- David Livingstone Centre for Sustainability, Department of Civil Engineering University if Strathclyde
Presentation: 'Applied Strategic Environmental Assessment' Natasha Medeira (EnviroCentre)

Manchester, 13/06/07: IEMA Annual Conference 2007
Workshop: 'SEA in practice: Case Studies', Natasha Madeira (EnviroCentre) & Ric Eales (Collingwood Environmental Planning).

Perth, 15/10/06: Sustainable Development Research Centre (SDRC)
Conference: Sustainability - Creating the Culture
Presentation: 'Sustainability through Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) - A key driver to stimulating institutional and cultural change?',Natasha Madeira (EnviroCentre) & Bill Sheate (Collingwood Environmental Planning)

Edinburgh, 26/09/06: Launch of Scottish Executive SEA Guidance
The Scottish Executive launched its SEA guidance on at the. EnviroCentre contributed a presentation by SEA Pathfinder Project Manager, Natasha Madeira, on the approach to evaluating current SEA practice through the SEA Pathfinder Project. For access to the conference proceedings and presentations, please click on this link to the Holyrood Events conference page: Scottish Executive SEA Guidance Launch

Stirling 30/03/06: Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) Quarterly Meeting
Presentation: 'The SEA Pathfinder Project', Natasha Madeira (EnviroCentre)