Environmental Impact Assessment in Sweden: Status, Problems and Proposals for Change

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At present, Swedish procedures for environmental impact assessment – EIA – are under close scrutiny and debate. Should foreign (i.e. US) procedures be adopted, or should indigenous procedures be developed or refined? After presenting existing procedures for EIA of individual projects, this paper analyses present proposals to change and redirects these provisions in order to cover not only projects but also programmes and policies. Special attention is given to an analysis of the compatibility of these proposals with existing structural and procedural peculiarities of the Swedish political and administrative system, as compared to the institutional and procedural consequences of adopting foreign EIA procedures. Indigenous solutions presented in the paper seem to strike the most favorable balance between the need for an integrated, comprehensive, and participatory EIA process on the one hand, and administrative efficiency on the other.

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