Showing papers in "Environmental Impact Assessment Review in 2005"

TL;DR: The Basel Ban, an amendment to the Basel Convention that has not yet come into force, would go one step further by prohibiting the export of e-waste from developed to industrializing countries as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the current status of WEEE recycling and disposal in China, and its impacts on the environment, human health, and the economy are discussed, as well as the legislative and market responses to the WEEE issue, and how these will be affected by Chinese attitudes and practices towards recycling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the two Swiss take-back and recycling systems of SWICO (for computers, consumer electronics and telecommunication equipment) and S.EN (household appliances) and found that the main impact occurs during the treatment applied further downstream to turn the waste into secondary raw materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an insight into the disposal of end-of-life appliances in both countries, including appliance collection and the financing of recycling systems as well as the social and environmental aspects of the current practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the current communicative turn in EA, echoing a similar shift in planning thought in the 1990s, has failed to benefit from this earlier experience, and examine EA from a perspective which is more closely aligned with some of the critics of the communicative approach.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the nature of public participation in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process in the context of the potential integration of the Aarhus Convention principles into the UK EIA system.

TL;DR: The study revealed that the life span of a personal computer has considerable influence upon the system, most notably in the following two aspects: (i) a prolonged life span creates value by means of refurbishing and upgrading activities, and (ii) it slows down the flow rate of the whole system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors advocate the adoption of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as a means to achieve sustainable development in developing countries, which can create a roadmap for sustainable development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to constructing sustainability solution spaces for decision-making (SSP), which fulfils the systemic, normative, and procedural requirements of an appropriate sustainability assessment as elaborated in the technical literature.

TL;DR: In the same year, an estimated 100 million obsolete personal computers (PCs) entered waste streams and were either recycled for the recovery of materials or finally disposed of in many parts of the world, both formal and informal recycling industries that deal with the rapidly growing streams of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), or ewaste for short, have emerged as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that good SEA must take into account the distributional consequences of policies, plans, or programmes, with decisions driven by the recognition that certain groups tend to systematically lose out in the distribution of environmental goods and bads.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on opportunities for using citizen-based approaches to broad and continuing regional monitoring as a foundation for the project-centred work that is the usual concern of environmental assessment follow-up.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the situation in four medium-sized Chinese cities with regard to urban sustainability and explored the relations between different aspects of urban sustainability, and indicated how urban managers can improve with sustainability indices as tools currently ineffective urban management practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) initiative, which aims to deal with a range of barriers that now prevent the widespread use of spatial data in support of good governance that contributes to sustainable development.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study on a policy proposal for waste-to-energy taxation in Sweden, it studies changes in the energy system as a result of implementing the suggested tax by testing three analytical pathways: an LCA pathway, a site-dependent pathway, and a qualitative pathway.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-cutting analysis of the objectives, the employed project designs and moderation schemes and the observed learning processes in participatory processes with model use shows that models play a mixed role in informing participants and stimulating discussions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the requirements for follow-up under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act adopt a negative perspective towards project effects by focusing on the mitigation of adverse effects and discourage the followup of important social or economic effects which are independent of project-related changes to the biophysical environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a life cycle assessment was carried out based on a detailed life cycle inventory for a typical GSM 900 mobile phone network and related end-life (EOL) treatment infrastructure.

TL;DR: In this article, the overall quality of 46 recently elaborated EIS from Portugal and Spain (1998-2003) was analyzed using the guidance on EIA-EIS Review 2001 report, produced with the support of the European Commission.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and examine the institutional, organizational, and socio-political conditions that have encouraged more collaborative forms of environmental assessment practice in the Northwest Territories and highlight the development of decentralized regulatory organizations more responsive to changing circumstances.

TL;DR: In this article, the implications of the disposal and recycling of packaging materials containing so-called smart labels and discuss the results from the perspective of the Precautionary Principle are analyzed. But they do not consider the potential environmental impacts of smart labels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework for evaluating participatory approaches used in environmental management and decision-making, adapted to SEA and used to assess the approaches selected, concluding that participatory approach within the SEA implementation process need to be chosen more systematically and put forward their framework as a way of doing so.

TL;DR: There is a need for a more systemic approach to HIA and its incorporation within ‘Equator Principles’, which would include clarification of corporate social responsibility beyond the project fence line in the mitigation of health problems at regional levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach for the analysis of closed-loop economic systems in which material backflows occur, and demonstrate how this approach can be employed in the field of e-waste management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how various public involvement methods have been applied in a development project involving the most heavily regulated lake in Finland, and discuss their experiences and the feedback from the public.

TL;DR: Health Impact Assessment has made impressive progress over the past 10 years achieving greater clarity over the nature of HIA, understanding that different methods were appropriate for different contexts and accepting that a variety of types of evidence were needed.

TL;DR: In this article, a Delphi-matrix approach is proposed to improve the performance of Taiwan's strategic environmental assessment (SEA), which is based on the impact matrix combination with indicators of sustainability, and then the Delphi method is employed to collect experts' opinions.

TL;DR: The strategic framework shows promise in providing a systematic process for identifying potential differential health impacts and assessing the extent to which these are avoidable and unfair.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the definitions and perceptions of biodiversity, and the associated management implications, held by those involved in preparing and assessing EIA documents in Western Australia and found that the most sophisticated practitioners placed biodiversity in its spatial and temporal context as well as being cognizant of community aspirations and the principle of net conservation benefit.

TL;DR: A model for procedural and methodological integration of EIA and RA based on reported best practice approaches is proposed and forms the basis for the proposed Evaluation Package which can be used as a benchmarking tool for evaluating the effectiveness of integration of RA within particular EIAs.