In recent years, social and environmental conflicts concerning the aquaculture sector have increased. These arise from different perception that individuals, collectives, private companies State about potential impacts of on environment quality life. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) projects in Chile is main administrative tool for decision-making, allowing identify, predict, propose p...

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process by which the benefits of development are weighed against its environmental costs. Since indigenous communities are the principal environmental stewards of their land, it is imperative that they are consulted and play an active part in the EIA process. Their input can help to correct a scientific analysis that “misrepresents the local context...

Abstract The software market for computerization of modelling and design processes mining enterprises is represented by American, Australian Russian solutions, which increases the dependence Kazakhstani on third-party developers. cloud service, scalable according to selected allows not only reduce exported but also better adapt solutions regulatory legislative documents. At same time, promotion...

A large body of literature addresses the role of science in environmental impact assessment (EIA) but less attention has been given to the views of practitioners themselves. In this research a survey of 31 EIA practitioners in Western Australia was undertaken to determine their perceptions of the quality and importance of science in EIA. The survey results are compared with previous theoretical...

An environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a decision-making process that evaluates the possible significant effects that a proposed project may exert on the environment. The EIA scoping and reviewing stages often involve public participation. Although its importance has long been recognized, public participation in the EIA process is often regarded as ineffective, due to time, budget, resourc...

This paper is the result of a master's research was to assess the potential and major restrictions on the use of geographic data available in a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) as a facilitator in the development of spatial representations in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and its Environmental Impact Report (EIR), to promote compliance with the studies, communication with society and t...

A complicated decision-making problem such as environmental impact assessment usually requires both quantitative and qualitative decision support tools to collaborate for reaping their benefits concurrently. Although the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been widely used in EIA, it is hardly to address the dependence issue among environmental factors and reflect the subjectivity between scie...

The concept of natural justice comprises certain legal principles that, taken together, constitute procedural fairness in administrative decision-making. It is closely aligned to the notion of public participation, a key element of most environmental impact assessment (EIA) throughout the world. But is natural justice the same as public participation, and if not, what are the differences betwee...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the principal indicators for human health evaluation as well as for further issues in occupational medicine, public health and planning. Certain difficulties to evaluate EIA appear due to, on the one hand, the nature of contaminants and health characteristics, and, on the other, the difficulties found in data processing, such as heterogeneity of t...

in recent years, the debate over the environmental sustainability of agricultural productions is widely increased. in this context, environmental impacts of potato production by semi-mechanized method were studied in markazi province of iran. in this research, life cycle assessment approach was used to identify and reduce environmental impacts. the environmental impacts of potato production in ...