STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN LAND USE PLANNING TOWARDS ESTABLISHING SEA FRAMEWORK IN EGYPT

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a decision making supporting tool. It is carried out on the higher level of decision making process and land use planning is one of the application fields of the SEA. Implementation of SEA in land use planning has been developed in many countries in the world in order to enhance decision making process In Egypt, Despite of the growing in environmental awareness in the last period. The environmental degradation continues due to the neglecting of implementation of SEA in land use planning. Although, it is obligatory by the Egyptian environmental law no.4 of 1994 to carry out EIA for any new projects or innovations of existing projects to get projects license This paper presents an attempt to develop a SEA framework, which integrates Environmental aspects on the level of policies, plans and programs with land use planning process in Egypt.