The Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment Systems in São Paulo and Minas Gerais States

Almeida, Maria Rita Raimundo e; Montaño, Marcelo

doi:10.1590/1809-4422asoc235r2v2022017

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“…The most common weaknesses, identified in the literature were also identified in the present system. Such weaknesses are associated with public participation in the process [42,58,102,103], considering alternatives [42,104], and cumulative impact assessment [101,103], as well as monitoring [35,104]. According to Elvan [103], EIA studies in Turkey revealed that public participation in environmental decision making are not binding while decisions should include members from nongovernmental organizations.…”

Section: Ahp Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the effectiveness and performance of environmental impact assessment studies in Greece

Papamichael¹,

Tsiolaki²,

Stylianou³

et al. 2023

Comptes Rendus. Chimie

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As environmental management is becoming increasingly complex, adequate assessment techniques must be utilized to forecast environmental impact trends. The current study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the evaluation system in Greece regarding environmental impact assessment (EIA) concerning projects. Data were extracted from literature and a questionnaire, which was distributed electronically on a Pan-Hellenic scale. Results indicated that the EIA system in Greece has solid foundations with a weak point regarding implementation. Strengths, weaknesses, and threats of EIA institution were analyzed through SWOT-AHP (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and Analytical Hierarchy Process) analysis. A dominant criterion in the analysis due to the dynamic of the deep economic recession was found to be the economic crisis.

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Section: Ahp Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the effectiveness and performance of environmental impact assessment studies in Greece

Papamichael¹,

Tsiolaki²,

Stylianou³

et al. 2023

Comptes Rendus. Chimie

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“…Given the multidimensionality of effectiveness in EIA, there has been a growing tendency towards simultaneous evaluation to better understand the dimensions interactions as well as associated tradeoffs (Almeida & Montaño, 2017;Chanchitpricha & Bond, 2013). While procedural effectiveness is the most studied in the literature (Loomis & Dziedzic, 2018), authors often nd it insu cient for effective EIAs, since EIA is envisioned to in uence decision-making to incorporate sustainable considerations into project design (Glasson & Therivel, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Analyzing the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment in Paraná, Brazil and California, United States with fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and the analytical hierarchy process

Loomis,

Dziedzic

2024

Environmental Management

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Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has become one of the most widespread environmental management instruments. Despite this, EIA is routinely criticized for being ineffective at impacting decision-making. This study compared the EIA systems of Paraná, Brazil and California, United States using the effectiveness dimensions from the EIA literature. This study formats the cases into contextual conditions using the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to identify the necessary and su cient conditions that cause effective outcomes. These effectiveness outcomes are then ranked by EIA stakeholders via the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to identify stakeholder priorities and to improve stakeholder management. The results show that in Paraná stakeholders identi ed normative effectiveness as the most important dimension, while stakeholders in California identi ed this dimension as the secondmost important following substantive effectiveness. Public participation was found to be a necessary condition for both substantive and normative effectiveness to occur. Early project de nition was found to be su cient for substantive effectiveness and necessary for normative effectiveness, for which stakeholder coordination was a su cient condition. This suggests that in order for EIA to in uence decision-making and foster sustainable development, greater care needs to be taken to actively engage stakeholders in public participation, with clear roles and project design communicated early on, and a clear role for regulatory authority to promote stakeholder coordination for acceptable outcomes. These ndings suggest that some effectiveness dimensions are caused by similar conditions, which could help focus stakeholder management efforts and point to new avenues for future EIA effectiveness research.

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“…What constitutes EIA effectiveness however, is much debated. There is ongoing interest in the performance of EIA and sustained speculation about its environmental and socio-economic benefits ( Almeida and Montaño, 2017 ). The last 50 years of EIA practice has failed to achieve its desired outcomes, and there are serious criticisms about its effectiveness ( Almeida and Montaño, 2017 ; Morgan, 2012 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

EIA effectiveness in Vietnam: key stakeholder perceptions

Clarke

2021

Heliyon

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In line with its rapidly transforming economy, thousands of development proposals undergo Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Vietnam each year. Since its inception in 1993, Vietnam's EIA system has undergone numerous amendments via a suite of legislative reforms to the Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) and its associated Circulars and Decrees, a testament to the Government's will to improve environmental performance. Here we evaluate the effectiveness of Vietnam's EIA system through a unique empirical study focusing on those engaged in the EIA system undertaken in Hanoi in 2016 comprising 20 semi-structured interviews with respondents from government, NGOs, academia, and industry. By evaluating the effectiveness of the EIA system in Vietnam from the stakeholder perspective, this paper aims to identify where, how, and why the EIA system is effective or otherwise. Stakeholders vary in their perceptions of the system. Those external to it identified several inhibiting characteristics. Results suggest that like other developing countries and jurisdictions, Vietnam's EIA procedural performance falls short of EIA goals. Criticisms of discordant dual planning law and environmental management laws, fragmented decision making, conflicts of interest in appraisal committee appointments, and information deprivation that impedes public participation suggest that like other developing countries and jurisdictions, Vietnam's EIA performance, in practice, faces several challenges that potentially undermine its role in environmental protection.

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The Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment Systems in São Paulo and Minas Gerais States

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Evaluation of the effectiveness and performance of environmental impact assessment studies in Greece

Evaluation of the effectiveness and performance of environmental impact assessment studies in Greece

Analyzing the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment in Paraná, Brazil and California, United States with fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and the analytical hierarchy process

EIA effectiveness in Vietnam: key stakeholder perceptions

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