environmental assessment Articles
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Environmental Assessment: A Business Perspective
Environmental assessments can assist companies in their quest for continuous improvements by identifying ways of maximizing profits through reducing waste and liabilities, raising productivity and demonstrating a company's sense of duty towards its customers and neighbors. ...
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The logistics of public participation in environmental assessment
This paper starts by investigating the rationales for public participation in environmental assessment. It is contended that access to participation may refer both to means as well as ends; thus, some advocates of citizen participation favour involvement for social and or political reasons (i.e. the participation is the end in itself). However, the value of that participation may also, as we ...
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The Environmental Assessment Process
The Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook is intended to be used principally as input to the World Bank Group’s Environmental Assessment (EA) processes. This note outlines the key features of the EA procedure for World Bank projects. The IFC and MIGA follow the same overall policies but have somewhat different environmental analyses and review procedures (for details contact IFC’s or MIGA’s ...
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Participation and environmental assessment in Northern and Southern cities, with examples from Stockholm and Jakarta
Increasing public participation in environmental assessment is a common goal, North and South. Despite a relative lack of formal education and institutionalised democracy, participatory appraisal has become far more popular in low-income areas in the South, where many advocates claim that it is possible to give local residents a large measure of control over both the research process and its ...
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Scenarios as Tools for International Environmental Assessments
Scenarios can be useful tools in international environmental assessments for evaluating future environmental problems, and this report is intended to contribute to improving scenario-building and analysis for decision-makers. It proposes a step-wise approach to scenario development and draws on some relevant scenario-building exercises, including recent activities of the Intergovernmental Panel ...
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Book Review: Environmental Assessment. The Regulation of Decision Making
Environmental Assessment. The Regulation of Decision Making, by Jane Holder. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004. 371pp. ISBN 0-19-826772-XKeywords: book ...
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Strategic environmental assessment: one concept, multiple definitions
The literature indicates that there are numerous definitions of strategic environmental assessment (SEA), but none of which has achieved full recognition on the part of researchers and practitioners. This study aims to compile a set of definitions that represents the amplitude of the subject matter to, on this basis, assess the conceptual evolution of SEA and to characterise the vision of the ...
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Environmental Assessment Brownfield Study
In late 2011, Global was contracted by the Genesee County Land Bank and City of Flint to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) in accordance with guidelines set for by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 24 CFR Part 58 for the Smith Village Project. Global utilized the HUD recommended format during the preparation of the EA including completion of the Statutory Checklist ...
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Catalogue of scenario studies - knowledge base for forward-looking information and services
The report brings together a review of available scenarios studies relevant to environmental assessment and decision-making at the European (or sub-European) scale (263 studies), and facts sheets of selected 44 studies using common description categories, which enables the user to review existing scenario studies that may be of relevance to their particular interest and benefit from them. It is ...
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OECD workshop on the environmental assessment of metals
I recently contributed to a workshop organised by the OECD which was aimed at raising awareness of the various approaches that have been developed (mostly in Europe and North America) for performing hazard assessments for metals. The workshop covered a broad variety of issues such as how to deal with the very large datasets that are available for some metals, ensuring that data are both reliable ...
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Towards integrated environmental assessment support for the European Community's environmental action programme process
This paper firstly discusses the strategy for integrated environmental assessment (IEA) at the European Environment Agency (EEA), addressing the principles, definition and scope, and summarising the state of the art. The IEA process is described within the framework of the DPSIR concept a chain of causal links going from Driving Forces, Pressures, States to Impacts, which finally leads to ...
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Book Review: Analysing Strategic Environmental Assessment: Towards Better Decision-Making
Analysing Strategic Environmental Assessment: Towards Better Decision-Making, by Pietro Caratti, Holger Dalkmann and Rodrigo Jiloberto. Marston Book Services, 2004. 198pp. ISBN 0-84376-448-2Keywords: book ...
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Development and practices of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in China
The paper introduces the research and practices of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in China, including the definition of plan environmental impact assessment (PEIA), its political and legal basis, mode for combining SEA into integration of environment and development in decision-making (IEDD). Then, an operational procedure and methods used for SEA in China, and particularly the ...
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Towards a harmonised approach for environmental assessment of human activities in the marine environment
With a foreseen increase in maritime activities, and driven by new policies and conventions aiming at sustainable management of the marine ecosystem, spatial management at sea is of growing importance. Spatial management should ensure that the collective pressures caused by anthropogenic activities on the marine ecosystem are kept within acceptable levels. A multitude of approaches to ...
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Developing principles of good practice in integrated environmental assessment
In integrated environmental assessment, unlike many other fields of quantitative social and environmental science, there is a keen awareness of the need for quality and assurance, and principles of good practice. This paper explores what is involved in developing and maintaining good practice. The problems of quality assurance in such a field, apparently scientific but in practice something else, ...
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Rural development programmes and strategic environmental assessment: towards a sustainable rural territory
The rural landscape and the areas of the agricultural production represent, for Italy in particular, one of the main cultural and ecological richnesses of its territory. It is, however, a complex reality in continuous growth, contaminated by a growing urban sprawl, more and more dissimilar from its bucolic idealisations and less and less coherent with the rhetoric of the environmental protection ...
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The Environmental Impact Assessment EIA
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the set of studies carried out by a multidisciplinary team, with detailed technical data, which evaluates the consequences of a given project for the environment. In the EIA, the impacts that a given project can cause in the environment, as well as the presentation of mitigating measures, are identified and evaluated technically and impartially. In ...
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The contribution of hierarchy theory to environmental assessment: application to water resource management
Environmental assessment methods are generally based on mono-disciplinary approaches drawn from biophysical or social sciences. This paper discusses the use of hierarchy theory to represent ecological systems when building a cross-disciplinary environmental assessment methodology in which a variety of legitimate views are formally taken into account. A hierarchical approach is applied to the ...
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