Strategic environmental assessment

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a way of looking at how plans and policies could affect the environment. It helps people who make decisions that might affect the environment to plan and make those decisions in a way that will reduce the impact on nature. For example, a government might make a plan for a new road through a forest but not be sure how it might affect the animals and plants living there. With SEA, they can plan the road in a way that has less impact on the animals, plants, and people that live there.