ABSTRACT
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is now widely recognized and increasingly applied in the Asian region. However, SEA systems and implementation in Asian countries lags behind that in advanced regions such as Europe and North America. Asian SEA practice is still limited to a relatively few nations and jurisdictions. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) is one of the leading jurisdictions in terms of establishing and implementing an SEA system as part of its planning processes. Other nations, such as South Korea and China, have made recent advances in this field.
