Showing papers in "Environmental Impact Assessment Review in 1994"

TL;DR: Mechanisms underlying the disruption of the development of vital systems, such as the endocrine, reproductive, and immune systems, are discussed with reference to wildlife, laboratory animals, and humans.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest criteria to evaluate the formal legal procedures, the arrangements for their application, and practice in their implementation in any EIA system and uses these to determine whether Western Australia's second-generation environmental impact assessment (EIA) system is worthy of emulation.

TL;DR: Some common misconceptions about the health data that go into a human health impact assessment are discussed; some involve large overarching issues, whereas others are quite specific misunderstandings of special topics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the development and implementation of the EIA process in Thailand and its effectiveness in the context of its performance as an environmental management tool, and presented some suggestions for improving the content and procedures for the eia system in Thailand.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the effectiveness of the EIS system in the Philippines and identified progress made in its effective implementation since 1986, and made suggestions for improvement based on the principle that it is essential to establish a credible process seen to work effectively by the public.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that environmental liability for past contamination creates uncertainty in privatization and leads to information asymmetry between governments and investors, and that audits and indemnification are proper instruments to correct these inefficiencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on monitoring aspects and cover pre-project analysis, study of the observed environmental consequences of ongoing projects, and the evaluation of completed projects, which is a common currency among those working in the field.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the individual steps in a risk assessment, with an emphasis on the use of probabilistic methods, is presented, and a brief discussion of computer desktop/video presentation tools is provided.

TL;DR: The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 was the “basic national charter for protection of the environment;” environmental protection rather than human health protection was its primary focus, although there has been considerable ambiguity in its implementation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the impacts of an ongoing massive river project in India on the health and welfare of affected indigenous populations and discuss the impact of industrial and economic growth in most lesser or newly industrialized countries.

TL;DR: The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Act in the Czech Republic was enacted in April 1992 as discussed by the authors, which has not as yet assumed an appropriate position within the national environmental legislation, one of the main problems is that environmental impact statement (EIS) findings are viewed as recommendations rather than as requirements within the building permit-issuing process.

TL;DR: In addition to economic and structural uncertainties, small communities in Canada's hinterland have traditionally relied on environmental resources to assure their economic and social viability as mentioned in this paper, and these pressures have further narrowed the range of economic alternatives in Hinterland regions.

TL;DR: In the Czech Republic, the EIA law recognizes a certified person who is the only subject to take part in the assessment process either as an author of an EIA report or as a reviewer of it as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify Poland's environmental problems and discuss how they have been addressed by the post-communist governments in 1989-1992, with particular emphasis on financial mechanisms applied.

TL;DR: The authors describes the extensive environmental deterioration in the former territory of Czechoslovakia (Federation of Czech Republic and Slovak Republic since 1968), the participation of environmentalists in the “Velvet Revolution” of November 1989, the new system of environmental management that has evolved as a part of emerging democracy since the beginning of 1990, and offers perspectives on environmental protection and sustainable living strategies in both succession states.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a brief outline of the land use planning system and illustrate the relationship of EIA requirements to this system, and expalins the legal framework of public participation in development control.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight some of the relationships between the health of individuals and the social environments in which they exist and suggest that in many instances, it may be desirable to change the public health paradigm from the bio-individual to the social level.

TL;DR: The fields of occupational and environmental medicine increasingly contain sufficient examples to suggest that a serious public health problem is emerging, and evidence for significant and increasing chemical sensitivity is provided by recent dramatic increases in synthetic organic chemical production and pesticide use.

TL;DR: This special issue lies in a conversation among the editors that was acknowledged that those engaged in environmental risk assessment were in general unfamiliar with the fields of public health epidemiology and medicine, and that those in these two latter fields rarely attended to the work underway in the field that gives rise to this journal.

TL;DR: The Montreal Protocol as discussed by the authors was widely praised for its reflection of unprecedented foresight in mandating preventive action on a global scale, but such praise may have been premature in light of more recent revelations that: (1) the rates of ozone depletion appear to be accelerating; and (2) the depletion seems to be spreading into the summer months over the north temperate zone of latitudes.

TL;DR: In this article, the assessment of impacts to hardwood grassland habitats by counties in California is reviewed and the authors recommend legislative changes that would require the local general plant to be strengthened by adding a habitat inventory and a set of protection priorities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the opportunities for managing the ecological interdependence of European countries through the process of regional integration and the conditions for developing and implementing a pan-European environmental policy are examined in the light of conflicts that are likely to emerge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the stepmatrix-reverse network method was used to identify needs and benefits, systematically consider all possible cause-effect interactions and pathways from the facility operation to impacts in a series of matrices combined to a step-matrix, and summarize in a reverse network diagram potentially significance pathways and impacts to identify possible mitigation measures and options.