Reviewing design stage of environmental impact assessment follow-up: looking at the open cast coal mines in India

Jha-Thakur, Urmila; Fischer, Thomas B.; Rajvanshi, Asha

doi:10.3152/146155109x413064

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“…It is widely recognized that adequate institutional arrangements, good quality EISs and adequate implementation of mitigation measures are core areas of an effective EIA system (Abaza et al, 2004;Cashmore et al, 2004;Fuller, 1999;Jha-Thakur et al, 2009;Jha-Thakur, 2011;Lohani et al, 1997;Lee et al, 1999;Lee, 2000;Marshal, 2001;Noble and Storey, 2005;Paliwal and Srivastava, 2012;Sadler, 1996;Wilson, 1998;Wende, 2002;Wood, 1995).…”

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“…The findings indicate that the practice of EIA in Bangladesh is still largely preoccupied with the preparation of EIA reports despite the fact that the ultimate effectiveness of an EIA system depends on the effective implementation of mitigation measures or broadly follow-up of EIA (Gachechiladze-Bozhesku and Fischer, 2012;Cashmore et al, 2004;Jha-Thakur et al, 2009;Jha-Thakur, 2011;MorrisonSaunders and Bailey, 1999;Noble and Storey, 2005;Sadler, 1996;Sanchez and Gallardo, 2005;Shepherd, 1998;Wood, 1999). However, the inadequate implementation of mitigation measures is not unique to Bangladesh.…”

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Fifteen Years of Environmental Impact Assessment System in Bangladesh: Current Practice, Challenges and Future Directions

Kabir

Momtaz

2013

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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The aim of this article is to review the current practice of EIA system in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, EIA has been practiced for more than fifteen years. However, there is a lack of scientific information about the current practice of EIA in Bangladesh. This article focused and reviewed three key areas of EIA system in Bangladesh: institutional arrangement, quality of EISs and implementation of mitigation measures. By using a set of good practice criteria, this article finds that still there are shortcomings in current EIA practice despite that fact that EIA practice in Bangladesh has been improving over the last fifteen years. This means Bangladesh could not harness the full benefit of EIA yet. This article suggest that in order to harness the full benefits of EIA, adequate implementation of mitigation measures is imperative while improving the capacity of proponents, regulatory agency and the quality of EIS.

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Fifteen Years of Environmental Impact Assessment System in Bangladesh: Current Practice, Challenges and Future Directions

Kabir

Momtaz

2013

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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“…Shakil and Ananya (2015), for example, examined the entire EIA system in Bangladesh by evaluating all processes of EIA including follow-up. Due to a relatively limited scope of research, analysis of EMP implementation has been confined to the application of methods used in EIA Macharia, 2005;Jha-Thakur et al, 2009;Bennett et al, 2016;Khosravi, Jha-Thakur and Fischer, 2018). However, researchers like have continued to emphasize the significance of follow-up (EMP) to the achievement of the goals of EIA.…”

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Implementation of EMP in EIA Follow-Up of Oil and Gas Projects in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: A Case of Bayelsa and Rivers States

Hemba

Phil-Eze

2021

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The Environmental Management Plan (EMP) is an off-shoot of environmental impact assessment (EIA) and is used during the implementation of a project to manage physical, socio-economic and health concerns identified during the assessment. Oil and gas production activities in Nigeria take place in a very delicate ecological region of the Niger Delta. Since the introduction of EMPs for projects in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, the extent of their implementation according to best practices is still poorly understood. The apparent limited knowledge on the implementation of EMPs puts environmental sustainability at great risk. This study evaluated the implementation of the Environment Management Plan of oil and gas production projects in the Bayelsa and Rivers States in the Central Niger Delta sub-region. Twelve case studies were selected from the region using a multi-level selection method which involved both random and purposive sampling techniques. The two states were purposively selected since they have the highest number of EMPs and the oldest history of oil production in Nigeria. The implementation of the EMPs within cases was scored using a check list which included 18 indicators developed based on the best practice principles of EIA follow-up. Findings show that the implementation of the EMPs is inadequate with an average score of 46.3%. The study concludes that the implementation of EMP is poorly handled and does not adequately address the approval conditions. The study recommends that more analysis and similar studies should be undertaken in other sectors and jurisdictions in order to better understand the implementation of EMP.

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“…This conceptualisation of EIA follow-up has subsequently been adopted in numerous research publications (e.g. Jha-Thakur et al, 2009;Nadeem and Hameed, 2010;Wessels, 2013;Jalava et al, 2015) and we are not aware of any alternative definition in common use. As is explained later, our criteria for EIA follow-up best practice are structured around these four dimensions of this definition, although for the purposes of deriving evaluation criteria that could investigate practice, we found it beneficial to divide the management dimension into: arrangements for managing the follow-up process (governance); and arrangements for managing the impacts themselves (management).…”

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Distilling and Applying Criteria for Best Practice EIA Follow-Up

Pinto

Morrison‐Saunders

Bond

et al. 2019

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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Follow-up is an essential component of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) if the success of EIA in improving the sustainability of a project once implemented is to be determined. This paper aims to establish universally-applicable criteria for EIA follow-up to evaluate project performance once assessed and underway. A suite of 24 criteria is derived from EIA follow-up best practice principles published by the International Association for Impact Assessment. The criteria are categorized according to the five dimensions of EIA follow-up: monitoring, evaluation, management, communication and governance. Posed as questions, the criteria support qualitative assessments of EIA follow-up performance for a project. Through application of the criteria to a case study currently under construction (the Shell Cove Marina project in eastern Australia), we found they provided an effective basis for a document review process delivering a short but informative account of the follow-up performance of the case study. The more robust evaluation of some of the criteria, particularly in the governance category, would require supplementary techniques such as interviews.

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Reviewing design stage of environmental impact assessment follow-up: looking at the open cast coal mines in India

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Fifteen Years of Environmental Impact Assessment System in Bangladesh: Current Practice, Challenges and Future Directions

Fifteen Years of Environmental Impact Assessment System in Bangladesh: Current Practice, Challenges and Future Directions

Implementation of EMP in EIA Follow-Up of Oil and Gas Projects in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: A Case of Bayelsa and Rivers States

Distilling and Applying Criteria for Best Practice EIA Follow-Up

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