Showing papers in "Environmental Impact Assessment Review in 2004"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the recent developments on measures to address the validity and reliability issues arising out of different kinds of biases/errors and other related empirical and methodological issues concerning the contingent valuation method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an alternative notion of sustainability assessment, with the more ambitious aim of seeking to determine whether or not an initiative is actually sustainable, and compare TBL approaches and principles-based approaches to developing such sustainability criteria, concluding that the latter are more appropriate, since they avoid many of the inherent limitations of the triple-bottom-line as a conception of sustainability.

TL;DR: The authors examines some of the background and assumptions that underlie society's relationship with chemical pollutants in water, particularly with respect to the need for a more holistic understanding of exposure and risk.

TL;DR: A broad model is proposed for the advancement of theory regarding the role of science in EIA which emphasises conceptual consideration and empirical investigation of the purposes, and hence outcomes, of EIA and the causal processes utilised to achieve these purposes.

TL;DR: A precautionary approach to port-related air pollution would encourage local production of goods in order to reduce marine traffic, greener design for new terminals, and state-of-the-art approaches to emissions control that have been successfully demonstrated at ports throughout the world as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a data envelopment analysis (DEA)-based model for analysis of regional vulnerability to natural disasters to improve upon the traditional method, which is sensitive to the weights selected for sub-indices when multi-indexes are added up to get an index of total vulnerability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment in transport planning in the light of different views of planning: synoptic optimising planning, communicative planning and planning as a social struggle.

TL;DR: In this article, the status of EIA systems in countries of the Middle East and North Africa region through a comparative assessment of existing and planned legislation and procedures is revealed. But, the assessment is limited to countries of North Africa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a detailed review of the public participation experiences associated with this activity in three European Union countries (Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) to try to identify elements of good practice which could be carried forward to future decommissioning projects.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of addressing cumulative environmental impacts in Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) of large development projects is increasingly underlined, however, cumulative impacts are gen...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the research achievements and practice of SEA in China, discuss the relationship of SEA and integration of environment and development in decision-making, and relevant political and legal basis of SEA.

TL;DR: In this article, the ANSEA approach provides a framework for analysing and assessing the decision-making processes of policies, plans and programmes (PPP) to enhance environmental integration into the decision making process, decision windows can be identified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and implemented such a cumulative measure of negative environmental impacts in Massachusetts and found that low-income communities and communities of color bear significantly greater ecological burdens than predominantly White and more affluent communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a cooperative approach to select an appropriate DSM for urban water management, which by means of an axiomatic evaluation helps to select the appropriate DSM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the rationale for a focus on alternatives assessment in implementing the precautionary principle, as well as opportunities for the principle's integration in environmental policy, and conclude that we will only reach the goal of sustainable production if we change our environmental protection focus from figuring out how bad the situation will be to seeking alternatives to problematic activities and designing the conditions for a more sustainable future.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline a number of principles concerning the use of assessment panels in SEA decision-making, and attempt to provide some guidance for SEA practitioners in this regard.

TL;DR: The most common official forum for citizen participation in EIAs is the public hearing, which can provide important benefits as discussed by the authors, however, public hearings have been criticized as exhibiting several problems that preclude meaningful citizen input.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the EIA system in Mauritius and identify its weaknesses and strengths, besides the lack of EIA audits, is the absence of environmental follow-up monitoring, which is necessary to distinguish between monitoring done for regulatory purposes (compliance monitoring) and environmental monitoring related to EIA.

TL;DR: There may be a large gap between professional rhetoric and the reality of community participation in HIA and it is essential to acknowledge the existence of this rhetoric-reality gap and to address the training and resource needs of both professionals and community members.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight recent developments in community participation and environmental decision-making in the Niger Delta region, using the EIA Decree of 1992 as a reference point.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors traced the evolution of Nigeria's EIA systems and appraised current practice and shortcomings, and recommended that Nigeria can make substantial progress along the evolutionary path through a correction of observed system shortcomings and a merger of the three systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the progress and characteristics of SEA in Taiwan were analyzed through limited case studies, revealing the positive and apparent influence of SEA on policy making and identifying the barriers hindering SEA's advancement and concluding with recommendations on strategies to overcome these obstacles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a health impact assessment of housing options in a former mining village in South Wales in order to illustrate the contributions that local people can make to both evidence and decision making.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the questions: "How do policy decisions come about?" and "How does this affect HIA?" They identify three ways for decision-making: rational, incremental and mixed model.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of human exposure as a way to understand and reduce effects of pollutants on human health is examined, and recommendations include the development and use of safer alternatives to common products, public education on ways to reduce exposure, systematic monitoring of human exposures to pollutants, and a precautionary approach in decision-making.

TL;DR: In this article, the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) concept and the principles of HIA are explored and a theoretical study explores the links between the TBL concept and HIA and considers the potential role of the HIA to provide a mechanism for integrating health concerns within a broader agenda of government and business.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the emergence of social impact assessment (SIA) in Bangladesh environmental management and its institutionalization and revealed that although SIA does not have a statutory status like EIA, social dimensions are firmly established in donor funded poverty alleviation projects.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that there exists considerable variability in the provisions for and practice of PPP assessment amongst Canadian provinces, with only Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec identifying recent practice experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the legal "duty to warn" doctrine is used to reduce the potential for both good and harm associated with risk assessments, and the authors suggest concepts that could be incorporated into warnings accompanying every formal risk assessment as routine "boiler plate" addenda.