scholarly journals Environmental impact assessment follow-up: good practice and future directions — findings from a workshop at the IAIA 2000 conference

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Arts ◽  
Paula Caldwell ◽  
Angus Morrison-Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Future Directions

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOLLOW-UP IN INDIA: EXPLORING REGIONAL VARIATION

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 435-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
URMILA JHA-THAKUR
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Social Environmental

The aim of this paper is to explore regional variation in the implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment follow-up in India and to identify causes of such variations. In doing so, forty-three semi-structured interviews were carried out across the Indian mining and environment sector. The findings from the interviews confirm that regional variation in follow-up implementation is a result of social, environmental, economical and political factors. To further explore these factors, three case studies of open cast coal mining were conducted. The findings of the case studies offer insight as to how the factors identified during the interviews influence follow-up outcomes. Furthermore, it reflects how the nature of such variation is not always true to what is perceived about them. Subsequently, the findings from the interviews and case studies help in contributing to the existing best practice of EIA follow-up and developing recommendations for achieving better follow-up outcomes in India.

The Necessity and Obstacles Analysis of Integrating HIA into EIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 286-289
Author(s):  
Lin Wang ◽  
Hong Guang Cheng ◽  
Xue Lian Liu ◽  
Jing Xie
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Related Research

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) and Health Impact Assessment (HIA) both play important roles in environmental and human health protection in many counties as well as in China. Some developed countries have mature experiences on integrating HIA into EIA for years from which we can learn. In this paper, the necessity, obstacles of Chinese EIA are analyzed and follow-up work is recommended. China should carry out related research, and gradually realize the integration of EIA and HIA.

A Commentary on Environmental Impact Assessment for Large Projects Affecting Lakes and Streams

1984 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1121-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Trade Offs

In this essay I look at environmental impact assessment as it concerns major projects influencing aquatic environments in Canada. Environmental impact assessment is a process aimed at guarding the public interest in the proper use of resources in the aggregate. Compromises are usually worked out on a local basis for each project. More widely conceived trade-offs are favored by all but practised by few. All projects go through various stages, all begin as vague schemes; some crystallize as firm proposals and then go through the assessment process to construction and a subsequent period of operation. Environmental impact assessment as a process should reflect this pattern of activity rather than being just the preparation of statements about projects that are imminent. I have given particular emphasis to the need for follow up on whether what occurred was what was predicted. Also I have stressed the importance of anticipating that some impacts will not be foreseen and, therefore, the necessity for making appropriate financial provision. Environmental impact assessment, as presently practised, does not make the contribution it might to environmental science. Impact assessment should not be seen as a substitute for research that would lead to new understandings of ecological systems and to new appreciations of what to look for in making environmental impact assessments.

scholarly journals Lessons from an International Initiative to Set and Share Good Practice on Human Health in Environmental Impact Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1392
Author(s):  
Ben Cave ◽  
Ryngan Pyper ◽  
Birgitte Fischer-Bonde ◽  
Sarah Humboldt-Dachroeden ◽  
Piedad Martin-Olmedo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
International Association ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
The European Union

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is applied to infrastructure and other large projects. The European Union EIA Directive (2011/92/EU as amended by 2014/52/EU) requires EIAs to consider the effects that a project might have on human health. The International Association for Impact Assessment and the European Public Health Association prepared a reference paper on public health in EIA to enable the health sector to contribute to this international requirement. We present lessons from this joint action. We review literature on policy analysis, impact assessment and Health Impact Assessment (HIA). We use findings from this review and from the consultation on the reference paper to consider how population and human health should be defined; how the health sector can participate in the EIA process; the relationship between EIA and HIA; what counts as evidence; when an effect should be considered ‘likely’ and ‘significant’; how changes in health should be reported; the risks from a business-as-usual coverage of human health in EIA; and finally competencies for conducting an assessment of human health. This article is relevant for health authorities seeking to ensure that infrastructure, and other aspects of development, are not deleterious to, but indeed improve, human health.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AGENCIES: A STUDY IN QUÉBEC, CANADA

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350015 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS E. SÁNCHEZ ◽  
PIERRE ANDRÉ
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Knowledge Repositories ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a knowledge intensive activity that benefits from a highly structured approach to knowledge management (KM). In a survey of KM initiatives in two Québec government agencies, the Environmental Assessment Department and the Environment Public Hearings Bureau, knowledge repositories were mapped and officers were invited to reply to a questionnaire enquiring about the knowledge repositories' usefulness. Their perception about knowledge creation within each agency was assessed. Three drivers were identified that have steered the implementation of KM initiatives: (i) successive managers' understandings that EIA does create knowledge; (ii) a concern with consistency and reproducibility of recommendations; (iii) improving agencies' efficiency, alongside one additional incentive: curbing the deleterious effects of staff turnover. So far an unmet challenge is making sense of a great deal of data and information obtained in the follow-up phase of the EIA process and transforming it into knowledge used to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of an agency's work.

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