STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT EFFECTIVENESS
2017-01-11
In the 1970s，也e U.S. began the implementation of the "National Environmental Policy Act". This Act introduced the instrument of environmental impact assessment (EIA). Since then EIA has been adopted in many countries, and it has become one of the most important legally required tools for environmental management. The concept of EIA was introduced to China in the first National Environmental Protection Conference in 1973. The "Environmental Protection Law (Trial) " issued in 1979 formally established the environmental impact
assessment system for project construction in China. On September 1 st 2003, the implementation of "The Environmental Impact Assessment Law" expanded the application of environmental impact assessment from project construction to the planning level, and thus laid the institutional foundation for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in China. This expansion greatly promoted the development of SEA in China, both the theory and the practice.