A Synopsis of Immediate and Deliberate Environmental Assessments

2009 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
S. M. Cormier
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessments

A European scale monitoring system to assess water quality of multi-national river basins in the accession countries

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fehér ◽  
A. Lázár
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Subsurface Water ◽  
Nutrient Concentrations ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
Data Collecting ◽  
Accession Countries ◽  
Catchment Size ◽  
Environment Agency ◽  
Collecting System

In the middle of the 1990s the European Environment Agency (EEA) started to develop a data collecting system for surface and subsurface water resources for assessing pressures, states and impacts on European water resources. The main objective of this system was to provide reliable, comparable, homogenous information, and support integrated environmental assessments at European level. The data collecting system for water is called Eurowaternet. The extent and information content of the network makes not only pan-European, but also regional or thematic environmental assessments possible. An extensive programme started in 1997 to support the Phare countries in their accession to the EU with implementation of this data collecting system in their countries. The paper briefly introduces the methodology of the system, but it focuses more on the application of the system in the accession countries, highlighting, through examples, the usefulness of the implemented network and assembled database. The examples present - among several other possible ones - trends of average nutrient concentrations; relationships between catchment size and annual average nutrient concentrations; relationships between catchment size and agricultural usage.

Fast pyrolysis of raw and acid-leached sugarcane residues en route to producing chemicals and fuels: Economic and environmental assessments

2021 ◽  
Vol 296 ◽  
pp. 126601
Author(s):  
Lizet Rodríquez-Machín ◽  
Frederik Ronsse ◽  
Yannay Casas-Ledón ◽  
Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Fast Pyrolysis ◽  
Environmental Assessments

scholarly journals Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) from Submarine Power Cables Can Trigger Strength-Dependent Behavioural and Physiological Responses in Edible Crab, Cancer pagurus (L.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 776
Author(s):  
Kevin Scott ◽  
Petra Harsanyi ◽  
Blair A. A. Easton ◽  
Althea J. R. Piper ◽  
Corentine M. V. Rochas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Power Cables ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
Cancer Pagurus ◽  
Commercially Important ◽  
Total Haemocyte Count

The current study investigated the effects of different strength Electromagnetic Field (EMF) exposure (250 µT, 500 µT, 1000 µT) on the commercially important decapod, edible crab (Cancer pagurus, Linnaeus, 1758). Stress related parameters were measured (l-Lactate, d-Glucose, Total Haemocyte Count (THC)) in addition to behavioural and response parameters (shelter preference and time spent resting/roaming) over 24 h periods. EMF strengths of 250 µT were found to have limited physiological and behavioural impacts. Exposure to 500 µT and 1000 µT were found to disrupt the l-Lactate and d-Glucose circadian rhythm and alter THC. Crabs showed a clear attraction to EMF exposed (500 µT and 1000 µT) shelters with a significant reduction in time spent roaming. Consequently, EMF emitted from MREDs will likely affect crabs in a strength-dependent manner thus highlighting the need for reliable in-situ measurements. This information is essential for policy making, environmental assessments, and in understanding the impacts of increased anthropogenic EMF on marine organisms.

scholarly journals Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 443
Author(s):  
Evidence Chinedu Enoguanbhor ◽  
Florian Gollnow ◽  
Blake Byron Walker ◽  
Jonas Ostergaard Nielsen ◽  
Tobia Lakes
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Land Cover Maps

Land use planning as strategic instruments to guide urban dynamics faces particular challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa, where urgent interventions are required to improve urban and environmental sustainability. This study investigated and identified key challenges of land use planning and its environmental assessments to improve the urban and environmental sustainability of city-regions. In doing so, we combined expert interviews and questionnaires with spatial analyses of urban and regional land use plans, as well as current and future urban land cover maps derived from Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing. By overlaying and contrasting land use plans and land cover maps, we investigated spatial inconsistencies between urban and regional plans and the associated urban land dynamics and used expert surveys to identify the causes of such inconsistencies. We furthermore identified and interrogated key challenges facing land use planning, including its environmental assessment procedures, and explored means for overcoming these barriers to rapid, yet environmentally sound urban growth. The results illuminated multiple inconsistencies (e.g., spatial conflicts) between urban and regional plans, most prominently stemming from conflicts in administrative boundaries and a lack of interdepartmental coordination. Key findings identified a lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment and inadequate implementation of land use plans caused by e.g., insufficient funding, lack of political will, political interference, corruption as challenges facing land use planning strategies for urban and environmental sustainability. The baseline information provided in this study is crucial to improve strategic planning and urban/environmental sustainability of city-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the Global South, where land use planning faces similar challenges to address haphazard urban expansion patterns.

INDUSTRY-DRIVEN AND CIVIL SOCIETY-DRIVEN STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS IN THE IRON MINING AND SMELTING COMPLEX OF CORUMBÁ, BRAZIL

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 1450010 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA CECI MOTA ◽  
EMILIO LÈBRE LA ROVERE ◽  
ALBERTO FONSECA
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Iron Mining ◽  
Society Committee ◽  
Mining And Smelting ◽  
Smelting Complex

Historical records of socio-environmental impacts related to large-scale iron ore development in Brazil are driving different planning approaches in the burgeoning iron mining and smelting complex of Corumbá, located at the border of the Pantanal ecosystem in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Among the most relevant efforts are two strategic environmental assessments (SEA): one was led by a mining company and the other by a civil society committee. This paper assesses to what extent these SEAs can contribute to the mitigation of negative socio-environmental impacts of the Corumbá Complex. It also evaluates if the SEA methodologies meet a number of SEA Performance Criteria. The analyses, which were based on literature reviews and content analysis of the SEA documents, reveal that the two SEAs represent an important effort to incorporate environmental variables into more strategic levels of the Pantanal region's planning. Nonetheless, both SEAs have serious limitations, given that they are not formally nested in governmental policies, plans and programmes.

scholarly journals Strategic environmental assessments for genetically modified organisms

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Linacre ◽  
Joanne Gaskell ◽  
Mark W. Rosegrant ◽  
Jose Falck-Zepeda ◽  
Hector Quemada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Environmental Assessments
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