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...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a tool for mitigating the effects of developmental projects on environment and promoting sustainable development. EIA an expensive, professionally engaged process that involves public. Many countries around world have long-standing laws in place connected to this topic, as well solid knowledge experience. One persistent argument against efficacy developi...

What role can public participation play in environmental management? Among major tools for environmental management, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been widely practised in many countries. Its effectiveness, however, varies depending on the extent to which transparency and public participation are incorporated in its process. In this article, we analyse the role of public participati...

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...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a key tool for both environmental and land management. It identifies potential adverse unintended consequences of the projects on use environment derives possible mitigation measures to address these impacts. Calculating volume severity impacts complex often relies selections simplifications. Moreover, calculating associated with nomadic-pastoral (dynami...

This paper categorizes and reviews different approaches to environmental impact assessment (EIA) system evaluation. It then describes the application of Wood’s (1995) ‘ideal’ EIA system evaluation criteria to the Republic of Maldives. Few of the criteria are actually met. Is the Maldivian EIA system therefore fundamentally flawed or deficient? Field observations suggest that this is not so and,...

Large-scale corporate projects, particularly those in extractive industries or hydropower development, have a history from early in the twentieth century of creating negative environmental, social, and health impacts on communities proximal to their operations. In many instances, especially for hydropower projects, the forced resettlement of entire communities was a feature in which local cultu...