The effect of uncertainty in adopting the general requirements of strategic environmental assessment /exploratory study

Abstract

The aim of the research is to demonstrate the role of uncertainty in adopting the general requirements for the strategic environmental assessment of service departments in Babil Governorate and the Environment Department. By focusing on a range of environmental problems, despite the efforts exerted to deal with the environmental problems resulting from human activities and development sectors and the various services, but it is not effective to reduce these problems, and the solutions resulting from this process are not to her Feasibility in the long term Therefore, strategic environmental assessment has emerged as a response to these challenges before taking a step in this direction and adopting the new strategic approach to dealing with environmental issues, the first thing we see before its implementation is the element of uncertainty. The sample size was 180 persons distributed in service departments in Babil Governorate and the Environment Department (Organizations water, sewage, municipal, municipalities, urban planning, environment ) The most important results are the possibility of a good adoption of the strategic environmental assessment through the achievement of high convictions of the members of the research sample in each of the general requirements of the strategic environmental assessment and the reason is that it is a contemporary approach contributes to enhance the performance and development of work The most important recommendations for the research are the need to adopt the strategic environmental assessment as the mainstay in preserving the environment in various fields, promoting the environmental reality, raising environmental awareness in different aspects of the ministry and establishing awareness programs that encourage people working in various departments to take care of the environmental aspect and the need to develop environmental departments and divisions as a first step in service departments in Babil Governorate that impoverish these sections and divisions.