Ana Villarroya

TL;DR: This review of major environmental licensing policy frameworks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela shows that while advancing quite detailed offset policies, most countries do not seem to have strong requirements regarding impact avoidance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role that compensation is given at present in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) practice in Spain, and for some of its conceptual and regulatory roots, and concluded that the practice of ecological compensation in EIA in Spain is much lower than it could be expected in a theoretical sustainability context committed to avoid net losses in the environment resource base, mainly due to an EIA practice focused on onsite mitigation that allows these net losses.

TL;DR: Compared and evaluated information available on threatened and non-threatened vertebrate species records from three different sources – the corresponding Biosphere Reserves management plans, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility index (GBIF), and scientific literature, to find potential knowledge gaps.

TL;DR: In this paper, the particular role that ecological compensation has had in recent road and railway EIA procedures in Spain, as seen through the review of a set of recent EIA Records of Decision (RODs) that confirms precedent findings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe current environmental-compensation practices in Swedish road and railway projects and discuss issues of vital importance to the development of compensation policy, such as what to compensate for, how much, and how.