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Environmental Impact Assessment

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Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA)
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Environmental Impact Assessment
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process of evaluating the likely
environmental impacts of a proposed project or development, taking into account
inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts, both beneficial
and adverse.
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Origin of EIA
• Before the First World War, rapid industrialization and urbanization in western
countries was causing rapid loss of natural resources.
• This continued to the period after the Second World War giving rise to concerns for
pollution, quality of life and environmental stress.
• In early 60s, investors and people realized that the projects they were under taking
were affecting the environment, resources, raw materials and people.
• As a result of this, pressure groups formed with the aim of getting a tool that can
be used to safeguard the environment in any development.
• The USA decided to respond to these issues and established a National
Environmental Policy Act in 1970 to consider its goal in terms of environmental
protection.
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Origin of EIA (Cont......)
• The USA became the first country to enact legislation on EIA.
• This was the first time that EIA became the official tool to be used to protect the
environment.
• The United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and
subsequent conventions formalized EIA.
• At present, all developed countries have environmental laws whereas most of the
developing countries are still adopting it (Lee, 1995).
• Multilateral and bilateral lenders included EIA requirements in their project
eligibility criteria (OECD, 1996).
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Importance of EIA
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a policy and management tool for both
planning and decision-making.
• It is a systematic process that assists to identify, predict and evaluate the
foreseeable environmental consequences of proposed development projects, plans
and policies.
• The process is applied prior to major decisions and commitments being done.
• The outcome of an EIA study assists the decision maker and the general public to
determine whether a project should be implemented and in what form.
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Importance of EIA (Cont.....)
• EIA involves description and quantification of impacts of given policy options.
• However, it does not require full information about costs and benefits; impacts are
not expressed in monetary terms.
• EIA is a very important aid to CBA.
• EIA is not restricted to or biased to the examination and mitigation of negative
impacts alone.
• EIA can also look into the possible positive issues due to the developmental
projects and explore or suggest ways of enhancing them further by carrying out
modifications in the project.
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