Scoping in Environmental Impact Assessment

This presentation discusses the concept of scoping in environmental impact assessment (EIA). It explains how scoping helps identify key issues based on legislative requirements, international requirements, and public involvement. The presentation also highlights the benefits of scoping, such as informing the public, considering stakeholders' values and concerns, and setting requirements for data collection and baseline study. Additionally, it mentions the potential negatives of scoping, such as the project becoming public knowledge and time constraints for business planning.

SCOPING IN
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SCOPING
 Scoping: scoping is a process in which key issues are identified this
issues are based on legislative requirements, international
requirements and public involvement (Mustow 2018). This
requirement are likely to be important during the EIA. Scoping also
mitigates and eliminates those requirements that are insignificant
or of little concern .Time and money is not wasted. scoping
determines issues to be addressed

EIA Scoping –
 scoping is very critical element in EIA in every project there are
various players who are very vital and through scoping they are
affected individually in the following ways :
 Through robust and focused scoping in environmental impact
Assessment or in any project before its undertaking scoping is one
critical step that the project manager should undertake to ensure that
the project is fit for inteded purpose.

EIA Scoping –
 The first stage in addressing each and every concern of all the
stakeholders involved in the project is to scope the EIA.
 A good EIA document should be able to address the needs to all
the stakeholders involved in running the project.
 Affected parties – mostly the local community are able to
understand how a proposed project will affect their day today lives.

EIA Scoping –
scoping helps the regulators who needs to assess the
legality and impacts of protected entities and population.
Decision makers through EIA documents are able to
determine whether a project can proceed or not and any
changes needed.

BENEFITS OF SCOPING
Scoping is very vital in EIA ands its benefits outweighs any
negative effects that it may have. Through Scoping :
The public will be informed through the planning process about a
public proposal that is in progress.
Through scoping key stakeholders are identified, their values and
concern are taken into consideration.

Why scoping is the best practice.
 Scoping provides information that is necessary during decision making .
 It identifies some of the important issues to be considered in
environmental impact assessment.
 scoping set the requirements for data collection and baseline study
(Slootweg, Roel, and Arend 2013).

Benefits of scoping
 Disagreement between, key planners, regulators and stakeholders over
what should be studied, and what should be done at what length is
greatly minimized.
 Scoping sets the appropriate subject matter( El Gohary 2016). and sets
space boundaries on what to be studied in EIA.
 Define the significant effects and the factors to be considered and
studied in details.

Negatives of scoping
 When scoping is initiated in a project, the project becomes a public
knowledge (Hansen, and Wood 2016). The developer is required to
maintain a competitive advantage in the market for any project
thus they choose not to go through the scoping process as this
could inform their competitors about their intentions and crucial
information on the project may be used to their disadvantage.

Negatives of scoping
 Business plan targets: time for going through scoping may lack especially
when obtaining funding streams for a project, the value of a business is
mainly based on portfolio evaluation-may preclude the time necessary to go
through scoping and a lot of recourses may be needed for scoping procedure
to be done which may be limited for a particular project, but it’s a very rare
occurrence (Hansen and Wood 2016).

Bibliography
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and scoping of extraterrestrial exploration and development
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478.
 Hansen, Eva, and Graham Wood. "Understanding EIA scoping in practice:
A pragmatist interpretation of effectiveness." Environmental impact
assessment review 58 (2016): 1-11.
 El Gohary, Rasha. "International EIA Guidelines and the Nile Basin
Countries EIA Experience." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 17
(2016): 482.
 Slootweg, Roel, and Arend Kolhoff. "A generic approach to integrate
biodiversity considerations in screening and scoping for
EIA." Environmental impact assessment review 23, no. 6 (2013): 657-681.