Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) focuses on evaluating the opportunities that the environment has to offer to development and the constraints that it imposes. The SEA process is therefore a proactive process to guide and assist development planning and to offer decision support. Besides our involvement in general SEAs, we have also developed and designed a custom Wind SEA for the placement of Wind Energy Facilities (WEF) in the Western Cape Province. This GIS based decision support tool is used extensively to evaluate applications for WEFs and acts as an environmental checklist for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) undertaken for WEFs.
