Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is an integral component of sound decision-making. helps to prevent or reduce environmental harms by informing the decision-makers likely impacts intended project, its alternatives and/or mitigation measures before implementation starts. This study examines effectiveness Tanzania EIA laws and related practice on protection Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) ...

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...

human activities often adversely affect natural landscapes and ecosystems. natural landscapes consist of habitats, and habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity. environmental impact assessment (eia)as a systematic and well documented procedure to identify, describe and assess the direct and indirect effects of a developmental project in different environments does not co...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) followup refers to the activities undertaken during the post-decision stages of the process to monitor, evaluate, manage and communicate the environmental outcomes that occur in order to provide for some follow-up to the environmental impact statement. This article presents the key findings of a workshop on EIA follow-up conducted at IAIA’00 Back to the Fut...

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...

Construction industry is considered as one of the main contributor of natural resources depletion, responsible for high level pollution and it is one of the attributes that pose climate changes and other environmental threats. A lot of efforts had and have been done to reduce and control these impacts. Project Environmental Management (PEM) includes the processes required to ensure that the imp...

The experiences of practitioners at recent International Association for Impact Assessment workshops on environmental impact assessment (EIA) follow-up are summarised to distil the ingredients required for success. These are presented in relation to the contextual factors that influence EIA follow-up practice: regulations and institutional arrangements; approaches to, and techniques for, follow...

eia is one of the acceptable ways for achieving sustainable development goals and as programming tools, it can define potential environmental impact that appears due to executing development projects, and select logical alternatives for solving them. the objective of this study is environmental impact assessment of ghameshloo highway on ghameshloo wildlife refugee condition that is located in i...

Environmental impact assessment is an important tool in assuring that development projects will go according to environmental limits. The need for a systematic method of evaluating the environmental effects of a project or a plan has been recognized for several decades. In this study application of improved mathematical matrices for environmental impact assessment was suggested. For this, quali...

We consider the adequacy of legislative and administrative provisions for environmental social impact assessment (ESIA) in Uganda. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) legislation was enacted Uganda 1995. Although it intended that impacts would also be considered, nomenclature, organizational culture practice EIA has given an over-emphasis to biophysical issues, with issues being under conside...