An Architect's Guide to Designing for Sustainability - Part Two
This initiative of the CAA is aimed at ensuring that architects within the Commonwealth are able to make their contribution to ensuring the sustainability of their developments. In this regard it takes cognisance of the newly accepted and widely used instrument for integrating economic, social and environmental issues into the formulation of plans and programmes, namely Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
Unlike the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) approach that focuses on the effect of the development on the environment, the SEA approach assesses the effect of the environment on the proposed development. This approach, in considering the opportunities and constraints that the broader environment places on the proposed development, acknowledges context (e.g. the political, institutional, social and biophysical environment), integrates current legislative procedures into the formulation of development plans, and is sustainability-led.
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