Resource Manual to Support Application of the Protocol on SEA
Draft Final
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Biodiversity
Guidelines for incorporating biodiversity related issues in strategic environmental assessments have been adopted under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity endorsed Guidelines for incorporating biodiversity-related issues into environmental impact assessment legislation or processes and in strategic impact assessment (decision VI/7-A) - introduction.
Voluntary Guidelines on Biodiversity-inclusive EIA, being proposed for endorsement by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (May 2006), and replacing the above guidelines: English 
, French , Russian , Arabic .
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Biodiversity: Guidance for Practitioners (June 2004; Countryside Council for Wales, English Nature, Environment Agency, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; prepared by South West Ecological Surveys, Levett-Therivel sustainability consultants and Oxford Brookes University)
Strategic Environmental Assessment - learning from practice (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)
A Guide on Biodiversity and Environmental Assessment (April 1996), Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
Biodiversity in Impact Assessment (English , French , Spanish ) - Best Practice Principles by the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
Biodiversity and environmental assessment, update no. 20 to the World Bank Environmental Assessment Sourcebook (Oct. 1997) available at the list of updates
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