Prioritising the Environment in Sustainable Development: Lessons from Australian Environmental Impact Assessment

Riley, Sophie

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26021-1_14

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“…However, in practice, strong interests in economic growth potentially impair the protection of environmental resources. If environmental, social, and developmental issues are difficult to combine in an acceptable way for all stakeholders, integration of different aspects of sustainable development remains challenging, and more guidance might be required on how to achieve sustainable development through prioritizing adequately (Riley 2016). Seeking a good balance between the three aspects of sustainability and avoiding a simplistic trade-off of one of the aspects requires continuing attention.…”

Section: Impact Assessment As a Concept To Support Sustainable Develomentioning

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Impact Assessment

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2020

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management

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Section: Impact Assessment As a Concept To Support Sustainable Develomentioning

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Impact Assessment

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2020

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management

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“…Even though "mining companies are not subjects of international and human rights treaties, the numerous voluntary or quasi-voluntary initiatives undertaken by the private sector, alone or together with states and non-governmental agencies at the global level assume a degree of importance in the global push to promote sustainable mining activities" (Dashwood, 2012). Notwithstanding, the economic benefits that comes with mining, environment protection should be prioritised, and as such planning becomes imperative (Riley, 2016). According to Lein(2008) "environmental planning is uniquely concerned with understanding the connection between human landscape and the ecological and physical processes that directly and indirectly sustain our existence."…”

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Effective implementation of Environmental Management Plan for sustainable mining

Odeku

2017

Environmental Economics

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This article examines the need of the environment protection in the process of mining operations. It highlights the importance of sustainable mining in order to ensure that mining is conducted sensibly and responsibly. It rigorously examines the utilization of a comprehensive and holistic Environmental Management Plan (EMP) which is one of the environmental tools that has the potential to produce environmental sustainability in mining areas and communities. It accentuates that the EMP should contain detailed activities that will be carried out throughout the mining and post mining operations. It also discusses how the interest of the people and the environment can be protected and preserved. It enlightens on the importance of compliance and implementation of the EMP for sustainable mining. It proves that non-compliance will marginalise the poor vulnerable communities and degrade the environment within the area where mines are based. It details the regulatory interventions that have been put in place to support the EMP and accentuates the need for accountability and sanctions for non-compliance with the environmental legislation. It submits that mining companies must be compelled to comply and implement the EMP as part of precautionary measures to avoid environmental and land degradation. The EMP is a tool that should be used to promote environmental sustainability in mining operations.

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“…The effectiveness of impact assessment is a burgeoning field of study (see Sadler 1996;Baker and McLelland 2003;Chanchitpricha and Bond 2013;Gronow et al 2015;Pope et al 2018;Loomis and Dziedzic 2018), with particular concerns expressed about substantive effectiveness -does IA do what it is supposed to do? A substantial volume of literature has been produced over the years that describe the shortcomings of IA practices in a multitude of jurisdictions (see Lawrence 1997;Environment and Natural Resources Committee 2011;Arts et al 2012;Morrison-Saunders et al 2014;Riley 2016; Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment 2017), and we explore this body of work in more detail in Section 3. Given the apparent level of dissatisfaction in IA expressed by practitioners and in the literature, it seems that few would argue that there is no scope for further improvement of IA.…”

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Evolution or revolution: where next for impact assessment?

Banhalmi-Zakar

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Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Impact assessment (IA) has become one of the most prevalent environmental policy instruments today. Its introduction under the National Environmental Policy Act (US) in 1969 was revolutionary. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that such a widely used tool has received its share of criticism, including that it fails to meet some of its fundamental goals. Over the last fifty years, IA has broadened in scope and application and embraced new techniques. It has followed evolved, but has not changed fundamentally.We believe that IA must continue to change to meet the societal and environmental challenges of the 21 st century. But will it be enough for IA to progress through incremental change (evolution), or is a complete overhaul of impact assessment (revolution) needed? We provide some ideas as to what 'evolution' and 'revolution' may look like, but rather then offering a definitive way forward now, we invite stakeholders to present their thoughts and suggestions at the IAIA19 Annual Conference in Brisbane, which carries the same theme as the title of this article.

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Prioritising the Environment in Sustainable Development: Lessons from Australian Environmental Impact Assessment

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

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Evolution or revolution: where next for impact assessment?

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