Integration of EIA and EMS in Project Development

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INTEGRATION OF EIA AND EMS IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
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Executive Summary
The necessity to theassess the impact of any anthropological activity on the environment is of
absolute importance. The assessment of the impact helps to analyse the consequences of any
human activity and allow an assessor to understand the requirements of the safety measures
that would reduce or eliminate the risk or hazard that could be brought about by any industrial,
commercial or residential activity. The assessment allows one to manage the risk and potential
threats that can create vulnerabilities for the humans and the environment. The need for
Environmental Management system or EMS comes to play with the EIA or the Environmental
Impact Assessment. The proper management of the environment in accordance with the project
develops sustainability and providing growth beneficial to the environment and to the animal life
on the planet. The report will analyse the integration of the EIA and the EMS for the
development of a project and would portray a scenario of implementation of EIA in accordance
with the EMS. The efficiency of EMS and EIA will be studied and evaluated based on their
effectiveness. The credibility of EMS and EIA will both be judged over each other and the cost
effectiveness and their competence will analysed. The report will also evaluate the standard
stated by ISO: 14000, which deals with environmental systems and tools to manage
environmental responsibilities. The report will finally conclude with the assessment of the tools
and their implementation with respect to anthropogenic activity. The necessity and urge to apply
these infrastructures in sustainable growth will be evaluated and understood.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................3
A. Integration of EIA and EMS....................................................................................................3
A.1 Comparison of EIA and EMS...............................................................................................3
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)...............................................................................3
Environmental Management System (EMS)..........................................................................4
Strengths and weakness of EIA and EMS.............................................................................5
A.2 Implementation of Integrated EIA and EMS........................................................................6
A.3 Driving Factors for implementation of the Integrated Model................................................7
B. Integrated EIA-EMS for an Infrastructure Project...................................................................8
Screening: Environmental policy...............................................................................................8
Scoping: Planning.....................................................................................................................9
Implementation and Operation.................................................................................................10
Checking and corrective action:...............................................................................................10
Management review: mitigation...............................................................................................10
Activity impact model...............................................................................................................11
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................12
References..................................................................................................................................13

3INTEGRATION OF EIA AND EMS IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
The various tools that manage the environmental aspects of any project or human activity is
basically done with the help of environmental tools as Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA
and Environmental Management System or EMS. The implementation of these tools ensures
the effective management of the environment when major projects are being constructed. It has
been observed that these frameworks of environmental management have been implemented
over the years by various organisations and industries individually in a manner that was not
coincided together. However, there have been instances of partial integration of both the EIA
and the EMS. The further researches on EIA and its processes have seen developments to
make it more approachable and to build integration with EMS. The necessary alteration of both
the frameworks needs to be revised to create a more integrated framework of the same. While
there have been several implications of these frameworks, it has been observed that companies
do not actively implement these tasks in sync, owing to their minute differences. The EIA
involves processes as monitoring, auditing, evaluation and post evaluation; on the other hand
EMS is actually an adoption of strategies over a given a time frame to achieve the desired
outcome. The environmental impact assessment analyses the probable impacts that can occur
due to the construction and operational functioning of a project. Generally, an EIA is attempted
prior to the commencement of the task whereas EMSs are generally put to effect once the
project has been completed and started functioning.The report will be divided into two parts
which will subsequently look into the comparisons between EIA and EMS. The second part or
part B will implement the integrated model of EIA and EMS into a project and evaluate the
success of the dual frame work in accordance with the project.
A. Integration of EIA and EMS
A.1 Comparison of EIA and EMS
To understand the integration of EIA and EMS it is necessary to have clarity about the concepts
of Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Management system individually.The
comparison, between the EIA EMS will be done after evaluating the concepts individually [1].
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
The concept of environmental impact assessment revolves around four stages of evaluation and
implementation mentioned as planning and design, construction, operation and