Environmental impact assessment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Strel'nikov ◽  
Natal'ya Chernysheva

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".

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Strel'nikov ◽  
Natal'ya Chernysheva

The proposed textbook deals with various aspects of the analysis, prediction and evaluation of various types of impacts on the environment. It is intended to provide future ecologists with an idea of the main types of habitats of living organisms, the main types of impacts on environmental components, methods of sampling in different environments, as well as their analysis. 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 some interest to specialists of related specialties.


2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 245-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS E. SÁNCHEZ

This paper documents the experience of teaching environmental impact assessment (EIA) to undergraduate students at Escola Politécnica, an engineering school in Brazil, where EIA was first introduced as a graduate course in 1990, evolving to be taught as an undergraduate course. Learning objectives, course contents and teaching approaches are described. The courses have always sought to prevent a "legal trap" in teaching EIA, i.e. shaping the contents and the approach upon the applicable legal requirements, as it is assumed that, ultimately, EIA is not practiced because of laws, but because society calls for environmentally and socially responsible decision-making. Given the limited literature on EIA education, the paper also hopes to stimulate further reflection and debate on the role of teaching in enhancing environmental assessment practice and in improving its effectiveness and disseminating best practices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-57
Author(s):  
Yun Ma

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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