Creation of a state of the art on SEA using community detection on citation network of papers

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has been introduced by Directive 2001/42/CE (Directive) concerning the environmental effects of plans and programmes with the goal of providing governments with a decision support system to prevent negative consequences before programming and planning instruments are approved. The Directive has been receipted by member states according to a pattern of acts, schedules and interpretations (Sadler at al, 2011).