Environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment. An eia is a part of resource management acts in many countries who are particularly interested in preserving and maintaining their environment such as canada and australia. Environmental impact assessment eia is the process of assessing the likely environmental impacts of a proposal and identifying options to minimise. Nevertheless, the general public is often concerned about the possibility of unknown or unforeseen environmental effects of particular development. Regional center of the ministry of environment and forest. Costs and benefits of the eia directive european commission. The main problems of environmental impact assessment eia. The following chapters describe some of these more specialized approaches and methods that have evolved to. What are the benefits of environmental impact assessment. Assessment of effectiveness of environmental impact assessment eia system in. The global embrace of sustainable development has made the analysis of costs and benefits an integral part of eia. Some general benefits of an eia include cost saving and reduced time of project implementation and adhering of legal regulations. The benefits of eia can be direct, such as the improved design or location of a project, or indirect, such as better quality eia work or raised environmental awareness of the personnel involved in the project.
What are some drawbacks of eia in achieving sustainable. The more indepth an eia is, the more likely it will spot longterm problems for the project, not only with sustainability but with waste in general. Information leaflet 5 what are the advantages of eia. This has forced the expansion of factors to be considered in traditional cost benefit analysis. Objectives of eia ensuring environmental factors are considered in the decisionmaking process ensuring that possible adverse environmental impacts are identified and avoided or minimised. After 10 years of eia practice in austria, an evaluation of the quality and effi. Keywords impact assessment benefits, proponents, costbenefit analysis. The environmental consultant who prepare eia on behalf of project proponent. Eia allows the likely significant environmental effects of a project to be identified and to be avoided, remedied or minimised at an early stage. In these cases, there will be with flowon effects in their future work. Applying the unece convention on environmental impact assessment in a. Eia most of the time do not take rapid land use and land cover change in terms of land use types, land use planning, resource and inputs management options, do not look the long term. Eia is mainly used at the level of specific developments and projects such as dams, industrial plants, transport infrastructure eg airport runways and roads, farm enterprises, natural resource exploitation eg sand extraction.
The benefits of eia can be direct, such as the improved design or location of a project, or indirect, such as better quality eia work or raised. The importance of environmental impact assessment eia. Is improving the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment. For guidance on the world banks environmental assessment policy, please. Environmental impact assessment should provide a basis for better decision making for the department and other public bodies.
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