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The idea of carrying out an environmental impact assessment of decisions at all levels goes back to the 70ties. This principle was supposed to be a tool for the realisation of a preventive protection of the environment and the early integration of environmental considerations into decison making processes. At international level several recommendations, such as the Brundtland report, the Bergen Ministerial Declaration on Sustainable Development in the ECE region, the Charter of Paris for a new Europe in the framework of the CSCE and Agenda 21 underline the importance of a parallel consideration of ecological as well as economic, social and other dimensions — a strategic environmental assessment — as instrument for the integration of environment and sustainability in political decision making.
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Feldmann, L. (1998). The Proposal for a Directive on Strategic Environmental Assessment for Certain Plans and Programmes. In: Kleinschmidt, V., Wagner, D. (eds) Strategic Environmental Assessment in Europe. Environmental Science and Technology Library, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3091-4_3
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