Copyright & authors

Copyright (c) United Nations and the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, 2006. All rights reserved. None of the materials provided in this Manual may be used, reproduced or transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or the use of any information storage and retrieval system, without acknowledgement of the Manual and the copyright holders. The authors have drawn on a number of sources in compiling this Manual, which is for the express use of the Parties to the UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment, but is made available to other interested individuals who are free to use and quote from the Manual with appropriate attribution.

The authors: this Manual was prepared by Nick Bonvoisin (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), Jiri Dusik and Ausra Jurkeviciute (Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe) and Barry Sadler, with advice from a small editorial group established by the Meeting of the Signatories to the Protocol and comprising: Ursula Platzer-Schneider (Austria), Mari van Dreumel (Netherlands), Roger Gebbels (initially United Kingdom, later European Commission), Roger Smithson (United Kingdom), David Aspinwall (initially European Commission) and Henrieta Martonakova (United Nations Development Programme). Further advice was provided by Martina Froben (Germany), Tanya Burdett (United Kingdom), Marco Martuzzi and Matt Soeberg (World Health Organization), Thomas Fischer (University of Liverpool), Elsa João (University of Strathclyde), Alan Bond (University of East Anglia), Ben Cave, Paul Tomlinson and many others.