Fuzzy clustering analysis in environmental impact assessment ? A complement tool to environmental quality index

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiang-Te Kung ◽  
Long Gen Ying ◽  
You-Ci Liu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Fuzzy Clustering ◽  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Fuzzy Clustering Analysis

Environmental impact assessment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Strel'nikov ◽  
Natal'ya Chernysheva
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Training Manual ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Basic Concepts

The training manual covers various aspects of environmental impact assessment. It is intended to formulate students studying in the field of "Ecology and Nature Management", an idea of the main types of impact on the components of the environment, the standards of environmental quality and criteria for assessing the state of its components. The basic concepts of environmental impact assessment on environmental components, environmental forecasting and modeling are analyzed. For undergraduate students of higher educational institutions in the field of "Ecology and nature Management". It may be of particular interest to managers and employees of organizations whose activities are related to the focus "Ecology and nature management".

Dynamics in Central–Local Division of the Authority of EIA Approval in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-57
Author(s):  
Yun Ma
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Regulatory Impact Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Impact ◽  
Local Levels

Abstract In comparison with the dominant ‘consideration model’, the veto arrangement of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in China is a substantive regulatory feature that empowers environmental authorities to impinge on development activities. However, the anticipated efficacies thereof are compromised by the central–local division of EIA approval. The mismatch between high enforcement rates and prevalent non-compliance shows that EIA approval can be easily circumvented, especially at local levels. Recent mass, blanket devolution in a hasty manner, coupled with enthusiastic local responses in watering down EIA approval, raises serious concerns about its appropriateness and effectiveness. The tendency to deregulate by loosening environmental scrutiny and the reinvention of EIA procedures in light of project licensing processes impairs the veto effects of EIA approval. Without formal legislative empowerment in the central–local framework and individualised regulatory impact analysis, the current devolution approach is bound to endanger environmental quality and undermine the legitimacy of the veto arrangement.

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