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Hong Kong Strategic Environmental Assessment Information Kit - Environment Protection Department - HKSAR

Part III : How to Conduct SEA?

SEA Methodologies and their Applications in Hong Kong

Methods Remarks Applications in Hong Kong
(XI) Valuation
Methods based on Mass,
Energy and Area
  • As an alternative system to the economic valuation.
  • e.g. Material Flow Analysis, Material Intensity Per Unit Service, Ecological Footprint, etc.
  • In general have not been used in SEA.
  • However, ecological footprint has been considered as an valuation tools in the HK2030, and also as one of the sustainability indictors developed in SUSDEV21 to assess new proposals.
  • This tool was finally not adopted as a lot of assumptions need to used to convert all affected activities into “area”, and it is more appropriate to serve as a tracking indicators to monitor the performance over time (with same set of assumptions), rather than as a tools to evaluate different proposals and alternatives.