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The integration of SEA and sustainability issues in EMS of small islands organizations: the case of tourism sector
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Sustainability is seen as mean of weakening the challenges faced by small islands. Strategic
Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) are referenced as
important tools to integrate sustainability and environmental issues into strategic and project level of the
decision-making, respectively. Tiering between these instruments is a rather discussed subject, but there
is often a forgotten link between SEA, EIA and Environmental Management Systems (EMS), established
at organizational level. This research explores this forgotten link assessing the integration of sustainability
issues along a decision-making hierarchy, from strategic to organizational level, regarding plans
subjected to SEA process and organizations with implemented EMS. A qualitative and quantitative
content analysis was used in a case study of the Azores archipelago tourism sector. The obtained results
show that the integration of recommendations of higher level documents along the decision-making
hierarchy remains insufficient, due to the lack of articulation between plans. The integration of SEA and
EIA in all phases of the decision-making hierarchy could possibly contribute to a greater articulation
between plans and disseminate sustainability concerns.
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Environmental Management Systems Small Islands Strategic Environmental Assessment Sustainability Tourism