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Strategic environmental assessment sea is a regulatory requirement for development across europe north america australasia and elsewhere yet understanding the legal aspects is challenging this comprehensive guide provides that understanding in a clear and straightforward way. Strategic environmental assessment in international and european law a practitioners guide by simon marsden april 2009 review of european community and international environmental law 181 . Strategic environmental assessment is a decision support instrument that can contribute to strengthen society commitments to sustainable development efficient management of resources and green economy. For international development and in particular the increasing shift away from individual projects toward policy based lending and sector level programming this transition has placed a new emphasis on approaches and tools for strategic environmental assessment broadly interpreted. The protocol on strategic environmental assessment augments the espoo convention by ensuring that individual parties integrate environmental assessment into their plans and programmes at the earliest stages and thus help in laying down the groundwork for sustainable development the protocol entered into force on 11 july 2010