Environmental Impact Assessment: Role in Attaining Biodiversity Net Gain

Environment Impact
Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
EIA stands for Environmental Impact Assessment which refers a process or procedure
through which an environmental influence of a proposed development is examined. While
undertaking EIA, the inter-related social, cultural, economic and human-health both positive and
negative influences are considered (Attallah and et.al., 2020). Also, this assessment is utilised to
predict the environmental influences of a project in the phase of pre-planning itself so that best
choices can be made to limit the adverse results. The key agenda of environmental impact
assessment is to maintain the environment and bring out the best accumulation of environmental
and economic welfare and costs. The following essay will be based upon the role of EIA in
attaining biodiversity net gain. It will also shed lights on EIT stages such as scoping, mitigation,
public participation and follow up.
MAIN BODY
Impact assessments are concerned with analysing the effects and outcomes of individual
projects such as environment impact assessment- or of programmes and policies such as strategic
environment assessment. Environmental impact assessment can be understood as a process of
integrative and systematic process for identifying the likely affects antecedent to a decision-
making on whether or not a offer should be provided support to continue. Strategic
environmental assessment defines an activity of antecedent assessment and categorization, plans,
programmes and policies or great level initiatives or pre-project steps. The main goal of EIA is to
not pressurise decision-makers to take the least surroundings negative solution, instead to state
the environmental influence of the improvement so that the concern for surroundings should be
involved in the decision-making. It is regarded as both art and science and reflected as a
technical aspect such as impact prediction, identification, examination, presentation and
management of information. It is important to look on the cause of environmental modification
that necessitates to be reasoned to give a context (Climent-Gil, Aledo and Vallejos-Romero,
2018). As the EIA is used a tool to support the authorities in order to make relevant choices or
decisions concerning the approval of project and which terms and conditions must be attained
and satisfied in the best possible manner. EIA helps identifying the environmental risks reduce
negative outcomes of environment, lessens conflict by promoting community participation,
informed decision-making and aid laying the base for environmental sound tasks and projects.