Environmental Impact Assessment: Myth or reality? Lessons from Spain

Pardo, Mercedes

doi:10.1016/s0195-9255(96)00080-7

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“…However cooperation could be at risk cause, even though coercion could avoid the trust dilemma, it is important to remember that a coercive force is useful as long as defectors are efficiently punished by the authority (Ostrom et al, 1999). Unfortunately there are many cases in which the institutional capacity to monitor the restrictions incorporated by the authority is not adequate, and leaves non-fulfillment of conditions without sanction (Pardo, 1997). On the other hand, sometimes (for example in public projects) government is perceived as the interested party on top of both, proponent and society, and not as the referee.…”

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The Advantages of Using a Computer-Based Integrated Assessment to Promote Cooperative Behavior in Groundwater Management

López-Corona¹,

Padilla²,

Pérez-Maqueo³

et al. 2012

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The ultimate goal of environmental impact assessment is to guarantee that benefits generated by a development project will not cause highly negative effects on the environment or public health. The fulfillment of this goal depends on the willingness of proponents and society to cooperate. The information management, its accessibility to community and the educational level of participants are of great relevancy too. Cooperation is not always attainable due to conflicts between individual and community interests. Conflict leads to a variety of cooperative and non-cooperative responses, depending on the information available to the actors. In order to capture the tendency in which a community perceives the proposals, we introduced an information index. We prove that computer models have a direct impact on this information index. This computer-based approach, leads the EIA to the paradigm of adaptive environmental assessment and management. To implement this, a system based on artificial intelligence and game theory was used to resolve a study case of conflict in groundwater management.

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The Advantages of Using a Computer-Based Integrated Assessment to Promote Cooperative Behavior in Groundwater Management

López-Corona¹,

Padilla²,

Pérez-Maqueo³

et al. 2012

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“…Apesar de toda a sua relevância, em uma pesquisa realizada para avaliar o estado da arte da AIA em vários países foram encontradas diversas limitações neste processo e dentre os problemas principais identificados estavam àqueles relacionados à participação (Morgan, 2012), seja por não ser efetiva e capaz de influenciar a tomada de decisão (Pardo;Furia e Wallace-Jones, 2000;Almer e Koontz, 2004;Soneryd, 2004;Nadeem e Hameed 2008;Panigrahi e Amirapu, 2012;Pope et al, 2013), por possuir apenas um papel meramente informativo ou consultivo (Cortner, 2000;Soneryd, 2004) ou por acontecer tardiamente no processo e prejudicar a formulação de alternativas locacionais e tecnológicas (Steinemann, 2001). Para Hartey e Wood (2005), estiveram entre as principais barreiras para uma participação efetiva o pobre fornecimento de informações, a fraca influência na tomada de decisão e a deficiência na execução de metodologias participativas.…”

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Participação Pública nos Processos de Licenciamento Ambiental no Triângulo Mineiro (Public participation in licensing processes in Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil)

Almeida

Gonçalves

Farias

2018

Rev. Bras. Geog. Fis.

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A participação pública no Licenciamento Ambiental (LA) apoiado em Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental é de extrema importância, tendo a função de envolver a comunidade nas tomadas de decisão, pois ela é afetada pelos impactos de um empreendimento. Assim, este estudo objetivou avaliar a participação nos processos de LA tramitados na Superintendência Regional de Regularização Ambiental do Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba. Para isto, foi realizado um levantamento da realização da audiência pública nos processos entre 2009-2015 e a discussão de um estudo de caso, o processo de licenciamento da Vale Fertilizantes em Patrocínio/MG. Dos 79 processos de licenciamento que abriram edital para solicitação da audiência, apenas 18% tiveram a convocação da mesma. No caso analisado, percebeu-se uma intensa participação popular, mas que não resultou em nenhuma contribuição para o processo decisório. Assim, concluiu-se que a participação dentro do LA no Triângulo Mineiro ainda é frágil, necessitando de aperfeiçoamentos. Palavras-chave: Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental, participação, audiência pública. Public participation in licensing processes in Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil A B S T R A C T Public participation in Environmental Licensing (EL) with Environmental Impact Assessment is extremely important, having the function of involving communities in decision making, as it is affected by impacts of a development. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the participation in the EL processes processed in the Superintendência Regional de Regularização Ambiental do Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba. For this, a survey of the public hearing was conducted in the cases between 2009-2015 and the discussion of a case study, Vale Fertilizantes' corrective licensing process in Patrocínio/MG. Of the 79 licensing processes that opened the notice to request the public hearing, only 18% had this event. In the case study analyzed, there was an intense population participation, but it did not result in any contribution to the decision-making process. Thus, it can be concluded that the participation within the EL is still fragile, in need of improvement.

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“…Extensive research has been conducted in both developed and developing countries to evaluate the quality of EIRs (Pardo, 1997;Androulidakis and Karakassis, 2005;Pinho et al, 2007;Zeremariam and Quinn 2007;Jalava et al, 2010). The weaknesses typically encountered include those relating to capacity of authorities involved, public participation, description of the methods used, impact prediction, EIA follow-up monitoring, and consideration of alternatives and cumulative impacts (Barker and Wood, 1999;Gray and Edwards-Jones, 1999;Canelas et al, 2005;Tzoumis, 2007;Kruopienė et al, 2009;Peterson, 2010).…”

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Does enhanced regulation improve EIA report quality? Lessons from South Africa

Sandham

Heerden

Jones

et al. 2013

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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Recently, various EIA systems have been subjected to system review processes with a view to improve performance. Many of these reviews resulted in some form of legislative reform. The South African Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations were modified in 2006 with the express intent to improve EIA effectiveness. In order to evaluate to what extent the desired outcome was achieved, the quality of EIA reports produced under the 2006 regulations was investigated for comparative analysis with the preceding regime. A sample of EIA reports from the two legislative regimes was reviewed using an adapted version of a well established method known colloquially as the "Lee and Colley" review package. Despite some improvements in certain aspects, overall report quality has decreased slightly from the 1997 EIA regime. It therefore appears that the modifications to the regulations, often heralded as the solution to improvements in performance have not resulted in improved quality of EIA reports.

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Environmental Impact Assessment: Myth or reality? Lessons from Spain

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

The Advantages of Using a Computer-Based Integrated Assessment to Promote Cooperative Behavior in Groundwater Management

The Advantages of Using a Computer-Based Integrated Assessment to Promote Cooperative Behavior in Groundwater Management

Participação Pública nos Processos de Licenciamento Ambiental no Triângulo Mineiro (Public participation in licensing processes in Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil)

Does enhanced regulation improve EIA report quality? Lessons from South Africa

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