In India Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been formally introduced in 1994. It relied on the institutional framework that has a strong supporting legislative, administrative and procedural set-up. Both central and state authorities together are sharing the responsibility of its development and management. A Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analysis taken up in this art...

Abstract Every project development that could possibly have negative environmental impacts must undergo a technical-administrative procedure called impact assessment (EIA), which ensures all implications are properly considered before making decision and minimized. Therefore, in many universities, technology-oriented master’s degree programs include EIA teaching courses. At the University of Fi...

Follow-up is a vital component of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), being essential for understanding assessment outcomes. Long-standing international best practice principles EIA follow-up are reviewed, and revisions proposed, based on workshops with academics practitioners, literature review self-reflection. The proposed revision will feature an introduction simple definition explanation...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the possible impact that a proposed plan or project may have on the environment, together consisting of the natural, social and economic aspects. The aim of this paper is to propose an environmental impact assessment methodology based on an integrated fuzzy AHP–ELECTRE approach in the context of urban industrial planning. In the propose...

A comprehensive assessment of drought environmental and socio-economic impacts provides critical information to rational decisions supporting drought mitigation policies and programs. The objectives of this study were to survey environmental and socio-economic impacts of drought in Guilan Province, and prioritize them from the viewpoint of paddy farmers. This study was a descriptive-correlation...

Purpose Environmental impact assessment (EIA) for transport infrastructure should consider geological constraints, legislative regulations, public policy and other strategic considerations. These considerations constraints that are often seen as the most challenging issues facing transportation planners critically reviewed. Subsequently, this study aims to evaluate enviromnetal impacts of civil...

The article explores on the basis of several definitions of environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment and sustainability impact assessment the needs to develop a new sustainability impact assessment of policies as a framework to focus on the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability. By using the example of rural development, indicator lists are d...

Both environmental impact assessment (EIA) and risk (RA) instituted some 50 years ago are interdisciplinary decision-support tools have analogies in their procedural steps. Environmental could be employed as such or complementary to EIA for management. This study aims examine how RA is dealt with the reports of greenfield projects. The investigation reveals that treated a standalone exercise to...