ID: 1840
Presenting Author: Xianhua Bao
Session: 630 - SEA for industrial zones:technological exploration and practical innovation
Status: pending
The SEA enables the park to confront environment-capacity and livability pressures through strict industrial access and layout optimization to balance development and the environment.
This study conducts a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for an 37 km2 Urban Integrated Industry Park，which is designated for high-end manufacturing. The park's future development faces two primary environmental constraints: the growing pressure on the regional atmospheric capacity and the internal residential living environment requirements.The SEA has led to a proposal of three measures. Firstly, to enforce stricter environmental access controls, the NOx emission concentration for heavy-duty gas turbine projects is reduced to 15 mg/m³ based on environmental capacity calculation, while the mandatory emission standard is only 20 mg/m³，this is projected to achieve an annual reduction of 140 tons. Secondly, to promote emission reduction in existing enterprises through measures such as centralized heating and source substitution of VOCs, to achieve coordinated reduction of multiple pollutants. Thirdly，to optimize the spatial layout through clustering heavy-polluting industries in the south and creating a 300-meter buffer zone around residential neighborhoods in the north, within which polluting and risky projects are restricted.By serving as a tool, this SEA has strengthened the environmental accountability of the industrial park, providing a solid foundation to facilitate layout optimization, pollution reduction, and regulatory enforcement.
With over 30 years in EIA, the author has led the team in completing more than 100 SEAs and won the First Prize for Policy Research awarded by the Shanghai Municipal Government.
Coauthor 1: Jiemei Zhou