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?Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer?s book on SEA; and students; teachers and practitioners of the subject will find the book essential.?Leonard Ortolano; Professor at Stanford University; USA?Fischer?s book demystifies the process and substantive analytical dimensions of SEA. Offering solidly documented empirical evidence of the value of SEA to development; the knowledge captured in this book is a great contribution to the practice.?Linda Ghanime; Environmental Operations and Policy Adviser; United Nations Development Program?This book is an invaluable reference text for SEA practitioners. I recommend it to everyone!?Xu He; Professor and Director of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Center at Nankai University; China?Fischer gives a concise and wellstructured account of SEA as it is used today. Readers thus will gain important insights into SEA: why it is important; how it works; and what it can and should achieve.?Professor Thomas Bunge; Federal Environment Agency; GermanyStrategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a fast-growing and rapidly evolving professional field driven by both advances in theory and practice and by regulatory requirements in Europe; North America; Australasia; South Africa and increasingly across Asia. However; to date; analysis of existing practice and associated reporting has remained far from systematic and there has been a clear need for a comprehensive textbook to facilitate teaching; learning and practice in this burgeoning field.This textbook; the first of its kind; provides for a state-ofthe-art review of SEA theory and practice and promotes a more systematic approach to SEA. It is written for a wide student; professional and academic audience and aims particularly at supporting the development of SEA modules in undergraduate and postgraduate planning; environmental assessment; engineering and law courses. It provides an overview of the fundamental principles and rules of SEA; reports systematically on international SEA practice and theory and pushes the envelope by developing the theory. Supporting material includes boxed examples and case studies from around the world; extra reading suggestions and a glossary of terms.This is the essential book for all students; professionals and academics in SEA and EIA and follow-up worldwide.