Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic decision support process aiming to ensure that environmental and possibly other sustainability aspects are considered effectively in policy, plan and program making. According to Fischer; it is a structured, rigorous, participative open and transparent environmental impact assessment based process, applied particularly to plans and programmes prepared by public planning authorities and times private bodies.
Participative open and transparent possibly non EIA based process applied in more flexible manner to policies, prepared by public planning authorities and private bodies. A flexible non EIA based process applied to legislative proposals and other policies plans and programmes in political cabinet decision making.
