%0 Journal Article %T Strategic Envrionmental Assessment (SEA); a preventive tool for environmental management Evaluaci車n ambiental estrat谷gica (EAE); un instrumento preventivo de gesti車n ambiental %A Domingo G車mez Orea %A Mauricio G車mez Villarino %J Revista de Salud Ambiental %D 2011 %I %X Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a first tool to integrate environment in the process of formulating policies, plans and programs (PPP hereafter) and then verify the reality of it. The integration is to incorporate sensitivity, judgment, knowledge and environmental commitment to the PPP process from the beginning, so that the public decision is about as accurate as possible. Verification involves two facets: verification that they have actually been an effort of environmental integration in developing the PPP and evaluation of results achieved, and evaluation is performed through the identification, assessment, prevention and monitoring of impacts would occur in case they are running. Environmental integration begins at the moment that the idea of developing the PPP, and his assessment; then takes the form of a technical document (Environmental Sustainability Report: ESR) which is an integral part of the PPP documentation and that unfolds while the draft PPP; then follows the process of integration by incorporating the determinations set forth in the Environmental Report, including the results of public participation in drawing up the final PPP. SEA is regulated at European Union by Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programs on the environment; in Spain, by Law 9/2006 and in the Autonomous Communities by the law itself. In the administrative procedure through which it is applied, technically there is a crucial phase: preparation of the Draft while the PPP and the ESR, so it could be interpreted as incorporating the environmental dimension into development process Draft PPP, verification of this and the identification, assessment, prevention and monitoring of impacts. La evaluaci車n ambiental estrat谷gica (EAE) es un instrumento para integrar primero el medio ambiente en el proceso de formulaci車n de pol赤ticas, planes y programas (PPP) y verificar despu谷s la realidad de ello. La integraci車n consiste en incorporar sensibilidad, criterio, conocimiento y compromiso ambiental al proceso de elaboraci車n del PPP, desde el principio, con el fin de que la decisi車n p迆blica al respecto sea la m芍s acertada posible. La verificaci車n comporta dos facetas: la comprobaci車n de que efectivamente se ha hecho un esfuerzo de integraci車n ambiental en la elaboraci車n del PPP y la evaluaci車n del resultado conseguido, evaluaci車n que se realiza a trav谷s de la identificaci車n, valoraci車n, prevenci車n y seguimiento de los impactos que se producir赤an en caso de que llegue a ejecutarse. La integraci車n ambiental comienza en el momento mismo %K evaluaci車n ambiental estrat谷gica %K gesti車n ambiental %K prevenci車n %U http://ojs.easyapps.es/index.php/rsa/article/view/169