EIAN and Soft Tools for Sustainable Systems - Desklib

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ASSIGNMENT 1. EIAN AND SOFT TOOLS
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Q1. ANSWER
The most prompt of these issues seems, by all accounts, to be a decrease in oil supplies,
a wonder ordinarily alluded to as "top oil" on the grounds that worldwide generation seems to
have achieved a greatest and is currently declining. Notwithstanding, an arrangement of related
asset and financial issues are proceeding to cause residual issues in ever more prominent
numbers and effects—to such an extent that writer Richard Heinberg discusses "top everything."
We trust that these issues were set out well and fundamentally precisely by a progression of
researchers amidst the most recent century and that occasions are showing that their unique
thoughts were for the most part stable many of these thoughts were illuminated expressly in a
historic point book called The Limits to Growth, distributed in 1972.
a typical recognition, even among learned ecological researchers, that the cutoff points
to-development display was a titanic disappointment, since clearly its expectations of outrageous
contamination and populace decrease have not materialized. In any case, what isn't outstanding is
that the first yield, in light of the PC innovation of the time, had an extremely deceptive element:
There were no dates on the chart between the years 1900 and 2100. Together oil and petroleum
gas supply about 66% of the vitality utilized on the planet, and coal another 20 percent.
Q2.ANSWER
To obtain approval of a project that requires EIA in NSW, the following steps are
considered:-

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Step 1. Understanding of the proposed activities. This entails getting acquitted with the
justification of the proposed activity and getting details in regard to what is being proposed.
Understand what is being proposed and the reasons to its proposal are therefore key to be well
understood at the commencement of an Environmental Impact Assessment study. To understand
the aim to be achieved through the development, it is imperative to have in-depth understanding
of the proposed activity by getting to know main the main activity as well as the associated
actions. This entails knowing the proposed development activity and justification of its
implementations. This helps to identify and come up with environmentally sound alternatives.
Step 2. Screening of activity. This entails interrogating very basic set of questions
regarding the nature of the activity. This questions, however, do not need to be analysed or
availability of detailed knowledge on the techniques, methods and the proposed sites. Screening
process is guided by the level of environmental review indicated which is dependent on the
nature of the activity. The nature of the activity can either be determined as low risk, moderate
risk, or high risk. Low risk activity refers to such activity which based on its nature, the
probability of its occurrence would not result in adverse significant effects on the environment
and upon its determination, and Environmental Impact Assessment is stopped. High risk activity
on the other hand is identified as that activity which on its occurrence is very likely to result in
adverse environmental effects. At times, the activity may neither be of low risk or high risk
hence defined as moderate or unknown risk. Moderate risk activity results in medium
environmental impacts on its occurrence. It is well founded that when an activity is found to be
of high risk, full Environmental Impact Assessment is commenced.
Step3. If need me, preliminary assessment is conducted. For medium and low risk
activity, a preliminary assessment is to be conducted. A rapid simplified EIA study is conducted