EIA And Soft Tools In Use To Control Pollution In Australia

EIA And Soft Tools In Use To Control Pollution In Australia
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Table of Contents
Q1. Using the article “Revisiting the Limits to Growth after Peak Oil” provided in the class
summarise key learnings in terms of limit to growth. What are the means by which your country
is now tackling these issues?...........................................................................................................2
Q2. Compare the steps one needs to follow to obtain approval for a project that requires EIA in
two of your chosen state. Please choose the state as per the guide below. Specify the
commonalities or differences?.........................................................................................................4
Q3. Depending on the last digit of your ID answer the following questions..................................6
0-4. Pitfalls and overcoming them in South Australia and Victoria................................................6
6-9. Public Participation in EIA.......................................................................................................6
Q4. Consider a development activity (other than that is considered in the workshop) in a square
kilometre area (pick up any site using Google map, except the one used in the workshop) within
Australia and conduct environmental impact assessment...............................................................7
Q5. Reduction of carbon emission in the environment through motor vehicles- use of soft tools in
changing public behaviour.............................................................................................................10
Another tool designed by the WHO can be used to raise public awareness in stopping carbon
emissions from the vehicles. The tool is named as Integrated Transport and Health Impact
Modelling Tool (ITHIM). The tool tried and tested and developed by the University of
Cambridge, does a national level assessment on health impacts of transport emissions and the
related health hazards. It also provides with solutions like physical activities, changes in road
traffic, road traffic injury risks in order to change the public’s behaviour. Such tools have been
used in UK widely and also in the other European states. References:.........................................11
References:....................................................................................................................................12
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Q1. Using the article “Revisiting the Limits to Growth after Peak Oil” provided in the class
summarise key learnings in terms of limit to growth. What are the means by which your
country is now tackling these issues?
The environmental impact of overpopulation is a constant shadow of the times modern, no
matter whether we choose to acknowledge it or not. Billions of people simply living out their
lives consume energy and natural resources directly or indirectly. The newest addition to the
problem is waste management. The environmentalists of the ’60s and the ’70s predicted these
population related standard problems but it was impossible for them to predict everything
accurately (Gharehbaghi, Macmanus and Robson,2019).
‘Peak Oil’ as we know is the peaking of fossil fuel production and consumption for all purposes,
be it food production, energy production, Industrial and economic growth or Medical
discoveries. Admittedly this is the peak of human civilisation as far as science and technology
go, but the population growing exponentially is presenting us with unforeseen environmental
problems. Our consumption of resources to stay alive was sustainable initially, but now we have
lifestyle choices as a consumer (which keeps the economy on track and stable) we need energy
for Air-Conditioning, we need energy for computers, phone, Central Heating, GPS, Car
Navigation and so on and so forth. It is great for the economy, but this energy consumption
comes with its own set of after effects...negative mostly. That after effect is carbon, left after
burning of fuel in, in CO2 or CO form, both as automobile exhaust or industrial by-products.
Thus, as of today, we are well aware that the problem is directly related to population
overgrowth, depletion of finite natural resources including fossil fuel and other consumables and
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