Issues in environmental impact assessment in victoria: What has scoresby taught us?

Abstract

The recent environmental assessment of major freeway and public transport proposals for the Scoresby Transport Corridor in Melbourne has highlighted deficiencies in processes and methodologies. The paper discusses strategic environmental assessment procedures and argues that its early application has the potential to overcome some of the difficulties identified and detailed here.

Key words:

• environmental impact assessment
• strategic environmental assessment
• transport planning
• integrated transport and land‐use planning