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THE DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTANNUAL REPORT 10/11-09/12

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01. Foreword 3

02. Mission statement 6

03. People 9

04. Teaching and Outreach 11

05. Projects 18

06. Appendix 28

© 2012, The Danish Centre for Environmental AssessmentAalborg University, Skibbrogade 5, 1, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark Email: [email protected] / Web: www.dcea.dk

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced and/or made public in any form without the permission from DCEA.

Design: Silvia Dragomir

Editing: Lise Kirk, Lone Kørnøv, Martin Lehmann, Silvia Dragomir

Images: colorbox.com, Kristian Hegner Reinau

Head of Centre: Lone KørnøvTel: +45 99 40 82 87 Email: [email protected]

Deputy Head of Centre: Martin LehmannTel: +45 99 40 84 22Email: [email protected]

Secretary: Lise Kirk NordensgaardTel: +45 99 40 25 42 Email: [email protected]

Content

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Foreword

It is a genuine delight for me to present the first Annual Report of the Danish Centre for

Environmental Assessment (DCEA) at the Department for Development and Planning, Aalborg

University. The range of research, educational and out-reach activities is broad. This Annual

Report provides a summary of several activities of this kind, as well as events carried out by

members of the Centre and its partners. The Annual Report covers the period October 2011 to

September 2012.

In this period, we have underlined our continued commitment to address matters of

current policy, business as well as practice concern. On this foundation, we have continued to

build its aim and reputation as a Centre for an interdisciplinary approach and for high quality

evidence based policy and professional advice. Many critical issues have been raised during

this report’s period. I will only mention here climate change mainstreaming planning and im-

pact assessment, and the on-going modernization of EIA.

Lone Kørnøv

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The effects of climate change are more and more present all over the globe, as a greater

sense of interdependence is present. Climate change integration through impact assessment

is an emerging field of practice, and we are engaged in exciting national and international pro-

jects. Nevertheless, the present EIA and SEA practice needs to reflect more systematically the

global system delimitation when assessing climate and biodiversity impacts. In many cases, a

life cycle perspective can be beneficial for recommending paths – by helping in avoiding sub-

optimisation. Integrating Life Cycle Assessment with EIA and SEA is a practice that DCEA will

support during the following years, while also strengthening the cooperation with ‘2.-0 LCA

Consultant’ and ‘International Life Cycle Academy’.

Moreover, it has been a year during which multiple discussions focused on modernisa-

tion and efficiency. This is an important debate, but also one that bears a risk of diverting atten-

tion away from an equally significant aspect of impact assessment: its role as one of the most

important means for integrating environmental concerns into planning and decision-making

in a systematic and transparent way. Our common hope is that the outcome of the on-going

ministerial work on changing the national EIA legislation will not only ease administration but

also strengthen the environmental protection.

In 2012 Aalborg University moved to Sydhavnen, in Copenhagen, and DCEA now have

three colleagues based there. We see a tremendous potential in this presence and trust that the

close proximity to national authorities and large companies will lead to new fruitful cooperation

in this region.

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This last year was also notable due to the variety of visiting scholars and interns who

took part in research and teaching. It has been a very fruitful experience, for which I would like

to thank everyone for choosing DCEA and Aalborg University, and for contributing academically

and at a personal level. I equally thank all our partners for their collaboration. The progress we

have achieved and registered so far would not have been realised without the dedicated and

inspiring cooperation with public as well as private organisations.

Achievements in the field of research, teaching and outreach are too numerous to list.

Every researcher and practitioner who have been associated with the Centre have contributed

to our overall success. Being a part of DCEA’s engaged efforts working with themes close to

our hearts - and working with our dedicated and talented members - is a great privilege and

personal pleasure for me!

Looking towards 2013 and further ahead, DCEA is well placed to build on this last suc-

cessful year. I look forward to developing our scientific activities during the next year, as well

as working with professionals both on a national and an international level, in order to make

impact assessment matter in real-life decision-making!

Lone KørnøvHead of Centre

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Mission statement

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DCEA is an inter-disciplinary research and policy engagement centre within the field of impact assessment and environmental governance.

The Centre provides theoretically pluralistic, methodologically rigorous, and analytically sound input to research and practice, and contributes to out-reach and educational programmes – all with a view to promote participatory and sustainability transition.

DCEA is the leading research centre connecting impact assessment practice to theories of decision-making and governance, with a strong focus on critical engage-ment with governments, businesses and civil society within regional, national and in-ternational policy-making arenas.

DCEA’s activities are based on the following values:

1. SUSTAINABILITYWe strive to promote balanced consideration of environmental, social and eco-nomic factors, a medium- and long-term perspective, and equality, justice and fairness globally.

2. CURIOSITYWe support an engaged research and educational environment that seeks to sustain passionate inquiry.

3. ACCOUNTABILITYWe strive to achieve transparency, broad societal engagement, and openness.

4. INDEPENDENCEAs an academic centre, we emphasise impartiality, autonomy, and creative free-dom.

Direction

Values

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Research themes

Goals

A key foundation for DCEA research is the objective to support sustainability transition in societal decision-making and out-comes of the processes.

The uniqueness of DCEA is the critical understanding of the technical aspects of the methodologies combined with an understanding of how institutions and different types of decision-making processes support or hinder the inclusion of environmental and impact assessment in a transparent way.

This is an underlying basis for the group’s innovation work on the methodologi-cal development, the institutionalisation of assessment methodologies, the construc-tion of the regulatory framework, and the governance perspective.

Research

Within the applied researchDCEA will:

Address urgent and specific problems or needs with the overall objective to support and develop critical impact

assessment to secure a more sustainable planning of our

cities, the countryside and the sectors nature, water, energy and waste - and securing that problems and needs of 'the

global south' are adressed and considered.

Within the fundamental research DCEA will:

Undertake scientific inquiry that expand our knowledge and

understanding critically of issues in relation to impact

assessment, governance and decision making.

Education

For PhD, master and bachelor and programmes DCEA aims

to:

Attract the best students nationally and internationalContiniously develop the

programmes in accordance with the problem-based

learning model and critical thinking.

To continue to develop programmes in which teaching

is informed by research,.

To engage with students as research collaborators and

important contributors to the research environment

For professionals DCEA aims to:

Develop educational opportunities through master programmes and short-term

courses in-house.Engage with capacity building in

developing countries.

EngagementFor scientific outreach and

dissemination DCEA aim to:

Collaborate with other national and international research

institutions.Being national organisation of

IA practitioners.

Ensure the research results are disseminated for the benefit of

scientific communities.Promoting exchange of visiting scholars and PhD fellows for

knowledge sharing. and development.

Strengthen high-profile scientific reporting.

Being national centre of excellence within the field.

With community engagement DCEA aims to:

Interact with actors considered as decision-makers as well as

those affected by them. Co-operate with practitioners

and NGO's.

Emphasize real world application.

Involve public stakeholders in the research process, if the

research deals with particular interests.

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People

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Lone Kørnøv

Martin Lehmann

Ivar Lyhne

Morten Bidstrup

Rasmus Nedergård

Eskild Holm Nielsen

Lise Kirk

Anne-Merild

Jannick Schmidt

Ole Busck

Silvia Dragomir

Tim Richardson

Anja Wejs

Jasmine Zhang

Patrick Driscoll

Sanne V Larsen

Brian Ved Mathiesen

Bo Weidema

Jingjing Gao

Paulina Ramirez

Søren Løkke

Eva Ritter

Guangling Zhao

Matthew Cashmore

Per Christensen

Trakarn Propaspongsa

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Teaching and outreach

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The environmental assessment day 2011

The Environmental Assessment Day is an annual event at DCEA and it is an op-portunity for Danish practitioners and researchers to meet and discuss current topics, practices and challenges within the various fields of impact assessment.

In 2011 the event was planned in cooperation with Centre for Impact Assess-ment at Roskilde University (Videnscenter for Miljøvurdering). The program at the Envi-ronmental Assessment Day presents a combination of presentations, dialogue, parallel sessions and panel discussions and finishes off with networking and sharing of experi-ences.

As a new approach the Environmental Assessment Day was offered both at AAU Aalborg and AAU Copenhagen and the level of interest was great at both campuses. Prior to the event we offered a full day course participation at either beginner or experi-enced level, and we were happy to see a great level of interest and engagement.

Program, presentations and the conference report is available at: http://dcea.dk/mvd2011/

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Through positive and extensive cooperation and discussion, The Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment at Aalborg University, Beijing Normal University, China and the Appraisal Center for Environmental Engineering, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, have all agreed to establish a research platform within strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and sustainable development.

The China-Denmark Research Center for Strategic Environmental Assessment is a five year project aimed at developing research projects and international seminars, workshops and training courses for students, officials or agencies within environmental assessment.

The priorities of this cross-cultural center will primarily be on regular exchange of information within SEA related biodiversity impact assessment, climate change miti-gation and adaptation, urban planning, transboundary SEA, policy SEA and effective public participation, but priority will also be given to joint training of Chinese govern-mental officials and studies in incorporating climate change and biodiversity into SEA.

During the five year period, two executive offices will be set up at Aalborg Uni-versity and Beijing Normal University respectively, and the project is expected to play a significant role in improving exchange of information and experiences within SEA and make great improvements and developments in sustainability training and studies.

Program, presentations and the conference report is available at: http://dcea.dk/mvd2011/

Joint Establishment of China-Denmark Research Centre for Strategic Environmental Assessment

and Sustainable Development

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A Norden Top-Level Initiative in Climate Change Adaptation Research Network has hosted a workshop in Aalborg, Denmark, on the 20-22 March 2012. The focus of this three-day workshop was on national, regional and municipal climate change adaptation strategies placed in the context of sustainable regional development. Plan-ners and researchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and the UK discussed the opportunities and challenges of different adaptation (and mitigation) strategies within a Nordic and European context. This workshop was primarily aimed at planners, decision-makers and researchers in the field of climate change planning and regional development.

Participating institutions included: Aalborg University (DK), Aalborg Municipal-ity (DK), Aalto University (FI), CICERO (NO), Columbia University (US), Oslo University College (NO), Prognos AG (DE), Swedish Defence Research Agency (SE), Örebro Uni-versity (SE), Region Nordjylland (DK), The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, University of Leeds (UK), and Vestlandsforsking (NO).

More detailed information can be found within the slides of the presentations hosted at: http://dcea.dk/ClimateChange/default.aspx. Funding was provided by the Nordic Top-Level Research Initiative in effect studies and climate change adaptation research project “Interdisciplinary research: theories and applications in urban climate change adaptation”, led by Prof. Karl Georg Høyer, Oslo University Col-lege/Aalborg University and Prof. Petter Næss, Aalborg University.

Climate Change Workshop

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The main topic of this seminar was the concepts of mitigation and adaptation, the two policy options for societies in response to climate change. Decisions relating to adaptation and mitigation are often more prominent at the level of local decision-making where these policy goals are realized. Here is also where conflicts and syner-gies can be identified and where innovation in relation to traditional planning is cur-rently needed.

The seminar featured presentations from prominent academics and practition-ers, who understand the tough issues and decisions to be made for the future of our cities and regions – and have solutions.

Broken Cities is designed specifically to help participants understand the com-plex issues facing citizens and decision-makers as seasonal precipitation patterns and the frequency of extreme events are becoming less predictable due to the changing climate. This game can synthesize the complexity into a simple set of rules and convey nuances of various options and choices in a way that traditional lectures and presenta-tion cannot.

For further information please contact DCEA, Skibbrogade 5, 1, DK-9000 Aalborg, Tel: +45 9940 2542

Broken Cities Seminar

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In September, the first joint Urban Design Studio took place in Aalborg and represented an investigation into the future of Aalborg City, presupposing that the sus-tainable growth of the city is dependent upon all facets and all scales of city life, from global connectivity to the well-being of individual citizens.

Initiatives like the regeneration of Aalborg’s Central Harbour Front signify im-portant, new investment in reconnecting and revitalizing Aalborg’s inner city area. The work presented through the Studio explores the next generation of investment which, although focused outside the city centre, is of equal importance to Aalborg’s future. By expanding the idea of the City-in-Between, the work raises crucial questions about the importance of inclusive growth and visioning for Aalborg East, which should be viewed as a part of ONE CITY whole. Aalborg East’s future is Aalborg’s future and the develop-ment opportunities IN BETWEEN the existing fabric of inner, outer and global Aalborg are very exciting.

The more than 50 participating students – both MSc and PhD – came from Afri-ca, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe and enabled a trans-disciplinary and mul-ti-cultural focus in which engineers, architects, and social & natural scientists worked together in five teams to tackle cross-cutting issues such as: 1) KICK-STARTING IN-NOVATION in between knowledge and production; 2) CULTIVATING THE DYNAMIC UNIVERSITY in between the local and the global; 3) CREATING SOCIAL COHESION in

Urban Design Studio 2012

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between neighbourhoods; 4) TRANSITIONING WASTE TO PRODUCT in between neigh-bourhoods and industry; and 5) EMPOWERING LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS in between residents and markets.

The teams were supported by lecturers and supervisors from Aalborg University (Department of Development & Planning; Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology; Department of Civil Engineering); Columbia University in the City of New York (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; School of Engineer-ing and Applied Science); and by the active participation from Himmerland Hous-ing Association, Aalborg Municipality and members from the Network for Sustainable Business Development in North Denmark.

Preliminary results were presented at an exhibition during ‘Arkitekturens Dag 2012’ held in the Health and Community Centre in Aalborg East. Electronic versions of the exhibition posters are available upon request to DCEA.

For further information about Urban Design Studio 2012 and opportunities to collaborate on and participate in future Studios, please contact Urban Design Studio coordinator Martin Lehmann ([email protected]; +45 9940 8422).

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Projects

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Cities take the lead in today’s climate debate by conducting climate change action plans. However, from the plan making to actual implementation various insti-tutional dynamics hampers the integration with a consequence of a delay for action, and potential inaction, to be carried out in practice. This project focuses upon the understanding of climate change governance at the urban level as an emerging field in planning.

As part of the project, a stay at the Earth Institute, Columbia University and Center for Climate Systems Research, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies was undertaken from February 1st to June 30th. The affiliation was with Dr. Cynthia Rosenz-weig, IPCC author and co-chair of the New York City’s Council for Climate Change. The stay provided insight in the planning process of a mega city and the role of researchers to aid practice.

For further information please contact Anja Wejs, [email protected]

Climate for change? Integrating climate change into cities' planning practice

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Around the world, the management of waste continues to be one of the major challenges facing our societies. While in developing countries, the management of waste is still very much focused on human health, and direct environmental impacts, in Europe there is now a focus on the use of resources. In particular there is a need to find a sustainable way to use what we term our ‘critical resources’: those which are both necessary in our current way of life, and which are in short supply.

This project takes a point of departure in the Danish waste sector and asks the question “how can we improve the use of waste for energy and materials cycling, in-tegrating both environmental and economic considerations?” In order to answer this question, a set of decision support tools are being developed. A way forward for the fu-ture will be mapped out through applying these models to a series of future scenarios.

Throughout the building of the models and the future scenarios, there is an emphasis on the integration of the waste and energy sectors. In a country where energy systems are dependent on input of waste, a holistic approach and coherent planning of investments and development of policies is crucial.

The Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment leads the project which is scheduled for completion at the end of 2014. The project is in collaboration with sev-eral other Danish and foreign research institutes.

Funding: Partially funded by the Danish Council for Strategic ResearchFor more information see the website www.topwaste.dk, or contact Per Christensen, pc@plan.

aau.dk and Amanda Louise Hill, [email protected].

TOPWASTE - The Optimal Treatment of Waste

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There is a growing sense of urgency in Vietnam to climate proof urban develop-ment planning and urban construction. This project aims to systematically integrate climate change considerations into urban planning in Vietnam through the use of Stra-tegic Environmental Assessment (SEA). A SEA system was established in Vietnam in 2005, and the law requires SEA to be conducted for a broad range of national, provin-cial and regional strategies and plans, including urban plans. The guidelines for SEA for urban planning do not currently incorporate climate change concerns.

Integration of climate change in to SEA is a relatively new phenomenon, which shows significant potential for mainstreaming climate change concerns in various plan-ning processes. Through guidance development, pilot SEAs, and capacity building and awareness raising, the project will build capacity for mainstreaming climate change adaptation into urban planning processes in Vietnam and contribute to the international knowledge base on adaptation through environmental assessment.

DCEA leads the project, which will finish in 2013, and take place in close co-operation with Centre for Research and Planning on Urban-Rural Environment at the Vietnam Institute for Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning and Integra Consulting Ltd. from the Czech Republic

Funding: Nordic Development Fund, www.ndf.fi. For further information you can contact: Lone Kørnøv [email protected] and Matthew Cashmore, [email protected]

Urban adaptation to Climate Change in Vietnam by the use of Strategic Environmental Assessment

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Aiming at securing sustainable production and use of biomass for energy pur-pose in DONG Energy, this project assessed environmental impacts of possible sce-narios of where DONG Energy in the short-term likely will purchase biomass and for different types of biomass.

Currently, DONG Energy mainly uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to assess a products environmental impact, and the statutory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to evaluate large-scale projects like e.g. offshore wind farms and energy produc-tion facilities. The impact assessment undertaken in this project is at a higher level of decision-making.

The project used an LCA approach to do the strategic level assessment of the policy of increased use of biomass, and the system is delimited by the use of conse-quential LCA. The project hereby takes into account the actual marginal effect of in-creasing purchase of a certain type of biomass in a certain area. This involves identifi-cation of the marginal biomass – and answering where and what expansion of biomass potential is likely to take place on the global market if purchase of biomass increases.

When growing biomass land is required. Hence, a change in the use of bio-mass for energy purpose cause increased pressure on the demand for cultivatable land. These effects are called indirect land use changes (iLUC). When excluding iLUC, biomass has advantages over fossil sources. One important argument is that biomass, compared to fossil fuels, is associated with regrowth of plant material after harvesting sequestering some of the emitted carbon again. However, it should be noticed that biomass is not carbon neutral; cultivation, harvesting, fertiliser etc. are associated with GHG-emissions.

Further, when also considering iLUC, biomass production bears a risk of ad-ditional environmental pressures on deforestation, biodiversity, and on soil and water resources. The results when including iLUC reveal that these effects might offset the carbon savings from biomass.

Funding: DONG EnergyFor further information please contact: Jannick Schmidt, [email protected] or Lone Kørnøv,

[email protected]

Impact assessment on increased use of biomass for power and heat production

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Emission of green house gases due to increased land take did also have the at-tention of the Think tank for Sustainable Suburbs in 2012.

Planners in general argue urban densification in the linkage between low density

and higher energy use to primary transport and heating. The climate change, caused by urban sprawl requiring intake of new land, have not had attention.

If we use agricultural and forestry areas for local urban sprawl, the equivalent ’ousted’ crop/wood products shall be produced another place in the world. Why? Be-cause the global area need (for food, energy etc.) is constantly increasing, and land in a limited resource. In other words, urban sprawl requires ’additional’ production. An uncritical continuous urban sprawl can thereby contribute to increased green house gas emissions and loss of biodiversity.

Limitation of land take has also the attention of the EU Commission. In ‘Road-

map to a Resource Efficient Europe’ (2011) the objective is: “… to reach the state of no net land take by 2050”. This means that land take need to be reduced to an average of 800 km2 per year in the period 2000-2020.

For more information please visit: www.naturstyrelsen.dk/Planlaegning/Projekter/Fostaedernes_taenketank

Urban sprawl and climate change impacts

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The objective of the project is to assess the impacts of the energy production from coal and biomass resources in China. The pivotal idea is to minimise the environ-mental impacts of the energy sector and ensure a stable supply of energy.

Firstly, the project develops a comprehensive assessment model for different levels of decision makers. Secondly, energy system scenarios for 2020 are reviewed and the marginal power technology up to 2020 in China is identified. Finally, the pro-ject discusses the development and role of Clean Coal Technology (CCT) in China’s power sector, and builds scenarios of the available biomass resource for energy use and assesses the potential impacts of these scenarios.

Project period: 2008-2012Contact: Jingjing Gao, [email protected]

Environmental Assessment of Energy resource in China

This project studies the application of indicators in Strategic Environmental As-sessment (SEA).

Based on Chinese experiences, the research explores how indicators are used in SEA practice and with what effect. Firstly, it examines how the national technical guidelines address the issues of indicators’ design and application in SEA. Secondly, it explores how the application of indicators influences the communication during a SEA process, and finally it investigates indicators’ role in influencing SEA’s impact on planning and decision making. The project involves case studies of two Chinese Urban Master Plan SEAs, focussing on the process and output of the SEA.

Project period: 2008-2012Contact: Guangling Zhao, [email protected]

Indicators' application in Strategic Environmental Assessment: experience in Chinese context

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During the spring of 2012, two DCEA researchers worked with the Ministry of Finances in the Greenland Government on a project about scenario building as a plan-ning tool. Greenland is facing potential radical changes due to rapid industrial develop-ment within extractive industries such as offshore oil and gas production, mining after gems, rare earth metals and other minerals of high international and political interest and value.

The assumption behind the project has been that scenarios are helpful when decisions are made regarding complex and uncertain systems, where unforeseen and abrupt changes are possible, as it is the situation in Greenland. Uncertainty and com-plexity are inherent issues in planning and decision-making processes that are directed towards the future and scenarios can help in the scoping and assessment of potential social impacts that can occur as consequences of potential developments.

The project involved a broad number of local stakeholders and included a workshop on March 2nd 2012 which was undertaken under the headline: Scenarios – From theory to practice. The full-day workshop was arranged in Nuuk, the Capital of Greenland. 16 persons participated, mainly from different ministries in the Greenlandic governmental administration, but also representatives from interest organisations, a municipality and a private company were among the participants.

Performance of social impact assessment is a legal requirement for industries to gain approval of applications in an increasing number of countries around the world. This is also the case in Greenland for mineral and hydrocarbon exploration and exploi-tation. DCEA is working in close relationship with the Greenland authorities to investi-gate and improve procedures and methodologies appropriate in the Greenland context.

Contact: [email protected]

social impact in Greenland

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In 2012, DCEA conducted a questionnaire survey on environmental assessment (EA) practices in Denmark. The 98 respondents to the survey are primarily employed in authorities (64%) and in consultancy companies (14%). Some of the most important conclusions are:

Limited interest in using EA to achieve more than the minimum requirements

- 50% of the respondents are of the opinion that developers do not use EA as an instrument to effectively protect the environment, but only to fulfil minimum legislative requirements. More than 80% often or always experience that developers viewEIA and SEA primarily as a mere legislative requirement. At the same time, the developer plays a significantrole, since 50% state that the developer has animportant or very important influence onthe quality of EA.

- In terms of the competent authority, most respondentsstate that authorities often or always regard EA primarily as a mere legislative requirement (EIA 55% and SEA 65%).

- 27% state that EAs are not making the implementation of plans and pro-grammes easier.

Need for better delimitations

- Almost 60% completely or mostly agree that Danish EAs often focus on too many different aspects.

- Half of the respondents state that ‘a clear selection of all activities for which an EIA is mandatory’ is among the most important element in the ‘ideal’ EAsystem. Among the most important elements are also a precise selection of relevant environ-mental impacts (40%) and consideration of realistic alternatives only (51%).

Challenges to quality

- Almost 20% disagree with the statement that the quality of EA reports is good, whilstonly 40% mostly or completelyagree that quality is good. At the same time, more than 60% state that quality is important or very important for the effectiveness of EA.

- Almost 60% mostlyor completelyagree that smallcompanies and authorities with limited capacity have problems achieving an adequate level of quality in EA.

For more information contact Ivar Lyhne, [email protected]

InvestIgatIon of envIronmental assessment practIces In Denmark

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Appendix

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finalized projects 10/2011-09/2012 - Appendix 1

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Appendix 2 - Ongoing projects

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Overview of seminars - Appendix 3

Overview of held conferences and seminars Name Focus Partners Location Time Environmental Assessment Day

’Exchange of experiences’ within impact assessment practice

Aalborg and Copenhagen

24,31 October 2012

Climate change planning as a driver for sustainable regional development: opportunities and challenges

National, regional and municipal climate change adaptation strategies placed in context of sustainable regional development

Aalborg 20-21 March 2012

Broken Cities Seminar The seminar featured presentations from prominent academics and practitioners, who understand the tough issues and decisions to be made for the future of our cities and regions – and have solutions.

Aalborg 25 April 2012

Climate change adaptation in New York

The modelling and process behind the climate change adaptation plan of New York

David Major, Centre for Climate Systems Research, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University

Copenhagen and Aalborg

3 and 6 September 2012

NORDIC-BALTIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT CONFERENCE 2012

Impact assessment in the Nordic-Baltic region: acquiring cross regional experience, linking practice and research

Estonian Environmental Institute Stockholm Branch of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

Kuressaare, Estonia

13-15 September 2012

Environmental Assessment Day

’The good examples’ within impact assessment practice

Aalborg and Copenhagen

17 October 2011 27 November 2011

Projects

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Overview of visiting fellows - Appendix 4Overview of visiting fellows Name (and title)

Institution/affiliation Focus during visit Period

Jaap Rozema VisitingPhDfellow

University of East Anglia Political and normative drivers in environmental assessment

April – June 2012

Joan Manuel F. Mendoza Visiting PhD fellow

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Industrial Ecology to provide sustainability principles for industrial management

April – June 2012

Josephine Rapuc Intern

Bordeaux University The use of environmental assessment tools to 'mainstream' climate change in urban planning in developing countries.

June – July 2012

Hans Jakob Walnum Associate

Vestlandsforsking, Norway

Critical perspectives on eco-efficiency as a policy strategy to transportation, hereunder rebound and LCA as a tool

June – July 2012

MoniaCocciarini Visiting PhD fellow

The Marche Polytechnic University at Ancona, Italy

Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment analysis

August – October 2012

Michele de Rosa Intern

Aalborg University, Joint European Master Programme in environmental studies

Climate change mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable development pathways in the C40 cities

September - November

Bissan Zamzam Intern

Aalborg University, Urban planning and management

Municipal Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Aalborg

September - November

Luu Duc Cuong Visiting professor

Centre for Research and Planning on Urban and Rural Environment (CRURE) Vietnam Institute for Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning (VIAP)

Integration of climate change in urban planning through the use of strategic environmental assessment

October 2012

Frederik Moltu Johnsen

Ostfoldforskning, Norway Life cycle assessment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and waiting methods in life cycle assessment

October – November 2012

Jiri Dusik Associate

Integra Consulting Ltd., Czech Republic

Integration of climate change in urban planning through the use of strategic environmental assessment

October 2012

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Jaap RozemaUniversity of East Anglia, UK

Joan Manuel Fernández Mendoza of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

“My fellowship in DCEA was one of the most enriching experiences I have had

within my PhD program as well as personal life. DCEA is a very dynamic research group where I met great researchers who work with great enthusiasm and full dedication. I have gotten new ideas, inspiration and knowledge for the further pursuit of my research in the field of Industrial Ecology and LCA. I am grateful to DCEA for having received me as a part of its team as well as all its members for inspiring scientific discussions and very fun social activities. Special thank, goes to my supervisors and the LCA team for their tutoring. DCEA has become my reference group on the development of environ-mental assessment studies.

“My fellowship in DCEA has provided me with invaluable insights into the dynam-

ics of environmental assessment and planning. DCEA is a multidisciplinary research group, reaching out to the virtue of combining multiple disciplines into a holistic re-search framework. I will keep vivid memories of the time spent with DCEA members of staff, both from an academic and social perspective, and look forward to collaborating with them in the years to come.

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