By Judith Petts
Environmental effect evaluate (EIA) is an important, anticipatory, environmental administration device. foreign debate specializes in its enhancement to satisfy the demanding situations of sustainable improvement in addition to calls for for scientifically powerful built-in and participative decision-making. This guide hopes to enhance practices by means of contributing a global, multidisciplinary, ready-reference resource to this debate.
Volume I addresses EIA rules, procedure and techniques. half 1 maps the EIA procedure and its effect on determination. It positions EIA within the context of sustainable improvement and relative to different selection instruments, together with fiscal valuation. It additionally positions strategic environmental overview (SEA) in a similar fashion. half 2 addresses the weather of the EIA strategy and demanding influence evaluate subject matters (air, water, ecological, social, threat, panorama and visible) not just by way of sturdy perform but additionally methodological evolution. This quantity concludes by means of addressing cumulative influence evaluation and SEA methods.
Volume II offers a special attention for EIA implementation and perform in Europe, Africa, the a long way East, South the US and North the US. It makes use of a few undertaking forms to supply 'how to do' suggestions and addresses perform in coverage and plan assessment.
This booklet can be learn by way of legislators, decision-makers, economists, builders, business managers and specialists taken with this important field.
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Practice varies Yes. Mitigation takes place throughout EIA process, from proposal application to environmental management programme Yes. Mitigation of environmental impacts is one of main purposes of Act. Practice varies at various stages in EIA process 11 Must consultation and participation take place prior to, and following, EIA report publication? Yes. Consultation and participation takes place at several stages in EIS preparation Yes. Public participation and consultation take place at various stages in preparing EIRs Partially.
EPA has stated that the 1986 Act, by codifying the EIA process and ensuring that the environmental considerations did not merely influence a decision made elsewhere but determined the Minister’s decision and enormously increased the bargaining position of EPA in negotiations with developers. Continuing public and political support for EPA is essential if the EIA system is to continue to perform well. If the primacy of the environmental decision is unlikely to be replicated frequently, other aspects of the Western Australian EIA system, including the numerous public participation and appeal provisions, the strong links to action monitoring and the annual report on the EIA system, provide models worthy of adoption and adaptation elsewhere.
Virtually unanimous belief that benefits of EIA outweigh its financial and time costs Yes. Costs and (especially) time requirements of panel reviews under previous EA system often high but significant mitigation has occurred; benefits of initial assessment less clear. Net benefits of new EIA system should be greater Yes. Complaints about uncertainty and delays generally outweighed by belief that EIA delivers real environmental benefits Yes. Clear consensus as to benefits of EIA but criticism of time requirements Yes.