scholarly journals Environmental impact assessment and environmental management plan - a case study of magnesite and dunite mine, South India

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. MANOJ ◽  
V. PRASANNAKUMAR
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
South India ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Dust Generation ◽  
Environmental Management Plan

The Chalk Hills region of Salem, Tamil Nadu, South India, has been the producer of magnesite of both calcination and refractory grades, for more than a century. Due to the vein type nature of the mineralisation, mining of this white carbonate of magnesium involves employment of men and deployment of heavy earth moving machines. The host rock, dunite, is also being mined as it is a commercially valuable by-product. The mining activity, comprising drilling, blasting (both primary and secondary), loading of waste, transport of over burden and crushing of ore is having considerable impacts on the environment. Dust generation, noise levels and ground vibration were monitored as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Control measures recommended on the basis of findings of EIA are being practiced. Review studies were conducted to gauge the healing effects following the implementation of the Environmental Management Plan (EMP). Implementation of the EMP points towards the sustenance of a clean, safe and congenial working environment in the mine and its precincts.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (EMP): A CASE STUDY OF KACHCHH, GUJARAT, INDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-127
Author(s):  
Hiren B Soni ◽  
V. Vijay Kumar ◽  
Pankaj N. Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Mineral Development

This case study outlines some noteworthy features of the process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Management Plant (EMP) of Deendyal (Kandla) Port Trust (DPT) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) lignite mines, Kachchh, Gujarat, India. These key viewpoints incorporate task depiction, options, checking, portrayal of the earth, open cooperation, biophysical impacts, social effects, sway essentialness, total impacts evaluation, observing, and introduction, which are earmarked in annexure in the form of sectors requiring EIA, Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA), basic guidelines, and environmental laws. The case study reflects the detailed scenario of physical, biological, and socioeconomic profiles of the study areas, which directly or indirectly the environmental as well as ecological characteristics of the proposed project sites. The suggestive steps, recommendations and mitigation measures are also discussed herewith.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amori Kock
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
Nonrenewable Resources ◽  
Legal Compliance ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
Environmental Management Plan ◽  
Major Industry

With this research, I aim to address the practical aspect of legal compliance most major industry companies struggle to obtain. In South Africa, there seems to be an issue relating to legal compliance of environmental authorisations given by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT). Companies, specifically those companies which have a significant impact on the nonrenewable resources, are burdened with legal requirements that cannot be met, whether it be unreasonable or practically impossible to obtain. With every project undertaken by these companies an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) must be issued (by the company itself) outlining the expectations and limitations of the proposed project through an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that clearly summarises the intended development and its impact. Should the EMP be accepted by the Regional Manager, a Scoping Report will be provided, by the applicant, clearly outlining the legal requirements and limitations placed on the proposed project. These conditions are mostly vague, as to what is expected or uncertain of how it should be achieved

scholarly journals Promoting the Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Environmental Impact Assessment: Effectiveness of Akwé: Kon Guidelines in Finland

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Vincent Onyango ◽  
Henri Wiman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Policy And Planning

Indigenous peoples’ participation in public policy and planning is ascribed in numerous international and national legal instruments as essential to the realisation of their self-determination. This study examines how the Akwé: Kon guidelines (AK) can promote effective indigenous peoples participation in environmental management, especially during environmental impact assessment (EIA). Special focus is drawn on the Finnish context, home of the Sámi indigenous people. The study applies an effectiveness review package by Lee and Colley (1999), supplemented by interview and questionnaire surveys, to analyse how effective the AK have been. It was found that although they were useful in promoting further interaction of the Sámi with authorities, the AK did not address their most fundamental political and legal grievances. This leaves room for EIA policy and practice, in Finland and all other jurisdictions with indigenous peoples, to consider how they can more effectively harness the potentialities in AK.

scholarly journals Contagious Environmental Lawmaking

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Natasha Affolder
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Diffusion ◽  
The Way

Abstract It is rare to find an environmental law development or ‘innovation’ announced or celebrated without some discussion of its transferability. Discourses of diffusion are becoming increasingly central to the way that we develop, communicate and frame environmental law ideas. And yet, this significant dimension of environmental law practice seems to have outgrown existing conceptual scaffolding and scholarly vocabularies. The concept, and intentionally unfamiliar terminology, of ‘contagious lawmaking’ creates a space for both fleshing out, and problematizing, the phenomenon of the dynamic and multi-directional transfer of environmental law ideas. This article sets the stage for further study of the global diffusion of environmental law. It does so by identifying the phenomenon of contagious lawmaking and by making explicit some of the terminological and methodological challenges implicated in its study. The article draws on narratives of the ‘global’ diffusion of environmental impact assessment, cited as ‘the most widely adopted environmental management tool in the world’.

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