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Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, a now-dissolved UK governmental agency in charge of environmental affairs, also provides with a checklist of matters that may be considered for inclusion in an EIA. This checklist is often used as a guidance to ensure that all the possible significant effects of the development are considered.<ref> DETR 2000. ''Environmental impact assessment: a guide to the procedures.'' Tonbridge, UK: Thomas Telford</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 13:50, 30 September 2022
Environmental impact assessment is a technique or a process by which information about the environmental effects of a project is collected, both by the developer and from other sources, and taken into account by the relevant decision making body before a decision is given on whether the development should go ahead.[1]
Procedures
John Glasson, Riki Therivel et. al. suggest the following procedures for the environmental impact assessment process, which is developed from their earlier book originally published in 1994. [2]
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, a now-dissolved UK governmental agency in charge of environmental affairs, also provides with a checklist of matters that may be considered for inclusion in an EIA. This checklist is often used as a guidance to ensure that all the possible significant effects of the development are considered.[3]
Methods
References
- ↑ Department of the Environment/Welsh Office 1989. Environmental assessment: a guide to the procedures. London: HMSO.
- ↑ Glasson, J., & Therivel, R. (2019). Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (5th ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470738
- ↑ DETR 2000. Environmental impact assessment: a guide to the procedures. Tonbridge, UK: Thomas Telford