Environmental researchers in Iran have encountered serious and new challenges about the methods that can adequately respond to research demands posed by the country’s recent rapid economic and social development. On one side, traditional methods of environmental impact assessment (EIA) have been criticized 1 severely by specialists and on the other, theoretical bases and practical conditions fo...

The significance and role of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) toward environmental planning and management of the potential impacts made to the environment, necessitates a comparison of the EIA procedure in Iran with that in other countries around the world. To this end, 10 countries and regions comprising developed countries (Canada, Finland, New Zealand and Belgium), developing countries...

Transparency in decision-making, involving the establishment of explicit goals and objectives combined with open, facilitative procedures, has recently been advocated as an important principle for effective environmental impact assessment (EIA). This paper examines recent changes to EIA practice in Western Australia that emphasise clear procedures for decision-making. Current practices focus on...

OBJECTIVES The National Environmental Policy Act and related state laws require many public agencies to analyze and disclose potentially significant environmental effects of agency actions, including effects on human health. In this paper we review the purpose and procedures of environmental impact assessment (EIA), existing regulatory requirements for health effects analysis, and potential bar...

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The environmental impact assessment process (EIA) for projects, programs, concepts and the financial assistance was approved officially for the first time in 1969 by the law on national environmental policy accepted in the USA. The mentioned process was developed through the legal directive of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in 1985, by which the minimum requirements to the EIA were es...

In this paper an expert system for environmental impact assessment, known as the EIAsystem, is presented. This system provides advice for hydropower development and river regulation projects. It is based on a method used for assessing the impact that hydropower development and river regulation will have on the environment, called the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Method (Strömquist & Ta...

management of the forest resources and related activities has significant effects on the environment. applying the environmental impact assessment (eia) provides a basis for improving forest management plans. however, in the developing countries such as iran, there have been so far no serious endeavors and research to undertake the eia of the various practices affecting the forest resources, de...

composting as one of the municipal solid waste management strategies aims to reduce size and weight of excreted substances, to abate odor and leachate, increase resource recovery and reduce the cost of disposal. environmental impact assessment (eia) of compost plants is required for compliance with laws and regulations. eia is one of the effective methods to protect environment. the aim of this...