Environmental Impact Assessment Handbook

Carroll, B A; Turpin, Trevor; Boyden, Adam; Carroll, Alison; Thomas, Ruth Lloyd

doi:10.1680/eiah3e.61415

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“…It provides information on the current biological, physical and socio-economic conditions of the areas within the sphere of influence of the proposed project, and provides that basis for impact identification and prediction. Several prominent researchers and EIA proponents have argued that baseline may be regarded as that main support for the EIA process [17,56,[60][61][62][63], and more specifically, the environmental management plan (EMP) [64].…”

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A Critical Review of the Guyana EIA Process for the Emerging Oil and Gas Sector

Bynoe¹

2021

Adv Environ Stud

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capital in the form of highly skilled manpower; for example, Kemal [4] contends that rents from oil and gas can contribute as much as 70% of a country's GDP. Additionally, the oil and gas sector creates livelihood opportunities from economic activities such as banking, hotel and restaurant services, road construction, telecommunication and health care services, among others, for both men and women [5], especially when one considers the backward linkages with the rest of the Research/Review Article

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A Critical Review of the Guyana EIA Process for the Emerging Oil and Gas Sector

Bynoe¹

2021

Adv Environ Stud

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“…While the EIA encompasses the overall environmental necessities and application requirements, the EAP, on the other hand, will include the improvement obligations together with the concluding examination and determination. The successful integration of EIA and EAP involves the careful determination of the relevant sustainability factors JEDT 22,1 (Carroll and Turpin, 2009). Indeed, this effective integration of EIA and EAP was the last environmental springboard for the Sydney Metro mega transport project.…”

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Verifying the sustainability factors of mega transportation infrastructure: Sydney Metro’s commissioning through the “significance matrix” methodology

Gharehbaghi

McManus

Georgy

et al. 2021

JEDT

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Purpose Through the significance matrix, this paper aims to investigate and explore the main sustainability factors of mega transportation infrastructure projects. Sydney’s Metro mega transportation infrastructure is used as a case study. Sydney’s Metro was selected because of its sustainability challenges faced because of the areas’ diverse ecological zones. Sydney’s Metro is thus examined as the basis of best practice for the determination of the sustainability factors of transportation infrastructures. Design/methodology/approach Using the significance matrix as a methodology, this research evaluates the environmental impact assessment and environmental assessment processes, to alleviate the problems of the mega transportation infrastructure. Findings This research found that a more comprehensive determination is needed to further analyse the sustainability factors of mega transportation infrastructures, use of a significance matrix would further assess the environmental complexities of mega transportation infrastructures and the sustainability factors of mega transportation infrastructures should include a nonlinear and asymmetrical scheme highlighting its components and carefully outlining its integration and consolidation. Originality/value Although there is concurrent research into sustainability factors of mega transportation, this paper undertakes a new methodology for such infrastructure. While the significance matrix is not a new concept, it has never been used specifically for mega transportation infrastructure. Subsequently, using the significance matrix as a methodology, this research undertakes such environmental analysis and assessment and thus produces a qualitative risk analysis matrix. The findings from this research will ultimately assist the key stakeholders of mega transportation infrastructures to better plan, monitor and support similar projects.

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“…Conventionally, the environmental considerations are fundamental concerns of STI (Gharehbaghi and Sagoo, 2016; Carroll and Turpin, 2009). As a result, a detailed assessment needs to be carefully undertaken to ensure the ecosystem is vigilantly protected.…”

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Complexities in mega rail transportation projects

Gharehbaghi

McManus

Hurst

et al. 2019

JEDT

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to initially evaluate the most current and important complications of sustainable mega rail transportation projects. This purpose is assisted by thoroughly reviewing the foremost uncertainties and challenging issues of STI. Once these factors are established, they will be the base of STI indicators. Finally, to consolidate such alignment, the Sydney Metro and Melbourne Metro are then compared and analyzed. The analysis would then create a platform to measure sustainability and relevant complexities in mega rail transportation projects. Design/methodology/approach To further consolidate such hypothesis, this research investigated two mega rail transportation projects in Australia. Both Sydney Metro and Melbourne Metro Rail were selected as the basis of case study, as both possess similar sustainability aspects. Findings As an outcome this research found that, complexities in both of these projects were based on future challenges and opportunities including imperfect equalization or not balancing all the four sustainability indicators; and where and how to emphasize the overlapping of these four indicators. In summary, these findings can assist the relevant planners, to better prepare and manage mega railway infrastructure and their operations. Originality/value While the sustainability for transportation infrastructure has been covered extensively by other authors, this paper strengthens the four specific and separate STI indicators – especially for mega rail infrastructure. Although, there are some crossover areas within these indicators, however, this research separately validates each as an independent entity. Commonly, there are three dimensions within the sustainability domain – environmental, economical and social. Nevertheless, for this research, a fourth dimension engineering which includes all the technical focus, has been separately developed. This is particularly important to effectively deal with all the complexities, particularly for mega projects, such as rail transportation infrastructure. Accordingly, separating the engineering dimension would thus reshape the triple bottom line factors to include a separate technical focus. To further evaluate this separation of the four specific areas, two mega Australian rail transportation projects are then reviewed as experiments.

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Environmental Impact Assessment Handbook

Cited by 6 publications

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A Critical Review of the Guyana EIA Process for the Emerging Oil and Gas Sector

A Critical Review of the Guyana EIA Process for the Emerging Oil and Gas Sector

Verifying the sustainability factors of mega transportation infrastructure: Sydney Metro’s commissioning through the “significance matrix” methodology

Complexities in mega rail transportation projects

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