This paper unpacks the environmental justice concerns of rural migrants in relation to land tenure and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes. We explore “geography recognition”, whereby sense community, identity place interact produce unequal experiences recognitional EIA process. develop our argument by using qualitative research a village case study East Kalimantan, Indonesia, invol...

Mining engineers and environmental experts around the world still identify evaluate risks associated with mining activities using field-based, basic qualitative methods The main objective is to introduce an innovative AI-based approach for construction of impact assessment (EIA) indexes that statistically reflects takes into account relationships between different factors, finding relevant patt...

More than 1.5 million people live in the Kathmandu valley. The valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. At the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. To address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of Nepal has proposed a project of inter-basin transfer of water from Melamchi River located 40 km north-east of the Kathmandu valley. The project will cover two district...

Environmental destruction caused by development activities has become a major concern among the global community. To overcome problem, environmental impact assessment (EIA) been introduced as tool that can help manage environment in activities. EIA implemented more than 100 countries around world including Islamic countries. However, implementation of not comprehensively understood. The objecti...

The present study was aimed at measuring citizens’ behavior intention (BI) regarding mandatory and voluntary pro-environmental programs. Two pro-environmental activities, which consist of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) as a mandatory program and ecolabel products as a voluntary program, were predicted by a pro-environmental planned behavior (PEPB) model. A total of 240 questionnaire d...

The World Bank Group is an intergovernmental organization of more than 180 member countries that provides financial assistance to borrower governments in accordance with its goal of fighting poverty. It has embraced the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and has developed a strategy for achieving them, based on two main pillars: building the climate for investment, jobs and sustainable...

This project evaluates an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Kannakuruchi Town Panchayat, Salem by using Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix (RIAM) tool. EIA analysis has four sequential phases such as identification, analysing, prediction and policy making. Identification involves characterizing the existing physical, social, economic, and ecological environment due to rapid urbanization and...

Social Impact Assessment (SIA) has been incorporated into part of EIA legislative structures in most nations following the adoption National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) USA. The assessment acts as a policy instrument for evaluating project’s socio-cultural consequences and advising socio-political stakeholders on its social viability. also provides operational advice tackling any negative e...

this study aims at evaluating the completeness of the content of the ecological part in environmental impact assessments (eias) and environmental impact statements (eiss) on content review basis. the requirements of the ecological content as stated in the of five sets of thai’s eia guidelines, namely the specific guidelines for power plants, industrial projects, dams and harbors and the gene...