A proposal to improve ecological compensation practice in road and railway projects in Spain

Villarroya, Ana; Puig, Jordi

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2012.11.002

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“…To offset impacts measures are taken to compensate for any residual adverse impacts that cannot be avoided, minimized, and/or restored. Offsets can take the form of positive management interventions such as restoration of degraded habitat, arrested degradation or averted risk, or protecting areas where there is imminent or projected loss of biodiversity [7] , [8] . Attempts to meet biodiversity goals through application of the mitigation hierarchy have gained wide traction globally with increased development of public policy, lending standards, and corporate policy.…”

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Policy Development for Environmental Licensing and Biodiversity Offsets in Latin America

Villarroya

Barros²,

Kiesecker

2014

PLoS ONE

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Attempts to meet biodiversity goals through application of the mitigation hierarchy have gained wide traction globally with increased development of public policy, lending standards, and corporate practices. With interest in biodiversity offsets increasing in Latin America, we seek to strengthen the basis for policy development through a review of major environmental licensing policy frameworks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Here we focused our review on an examination of national level policies to evaluate to which degree current provisions promote positive environmental outcomes. All the surveyed countries have national-level Environmental Impact Assessment laws or regulations that cover the habitats present in their territories. Although most countries enable the use of offsets only Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru explicitly require their implementation. Our review has shown that while advancing quite detailed offset policies, most countries do not seem to have strong requirements regarding impact avoidance. Despite this deficiency most countries have a strong foundation from which to develop policy for biodiversity offsets, but several issues require further guidance, including how best to: (1) ensure conformance with the mitigation hierarchy; (2) identify the most environmentally preferable offsets within a landscape context; (3) determine appropriate mitigation replacement ratios; and (4) ensure appropriate time and effort is given to monitor offset performance.

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Policy Development for Environmental Licensing and Biodiversity Offsets in Latin America

Villarroya

Barros²,

Kiesecker

2014

PLoS ONE

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“…In the case of WWTPs, the average length is 2.84 years (34.1 months), much longer than the period initially proposed by the current regulations [13] and projects such as SWDPs with 1.78 years (21.4 months) [18]. There are still some projects with longer processing time such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plants with a total of 3.78 years (45.4 months) [17] and major dams with 5.3 years (63.6 months) [16].…”

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“…This research is based on the analysis of RODs for WWTPs issued by the Central Government since 2000 to 2016 and published in the official Spanish gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado). This methodology has been frequently used in Spain in research about EIA, e.g., consideration of ecological compensation [15], dams [16], LNG regasification plants [17], seawater desalination plants (SWDPs) [18], and climate change [19]. A ROD is the available public document where the approving agency presents the main factors that were contemplated to reach the final decision on every project, including the practical means to avoid or minimize environmental harm.…”

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Review of the environmental impact assessment process of wastewater treatment plants in Spain

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2018

Environ. Protect. Eng.

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The environmental impact over natural water systems, both marine and land, of the sewage is minimized with the treatment at Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs), but these facilities also generate environmental impacts during the construction period and during the operation period. A review of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process of WWTPs in Spain through the analysis of records of decision (RODs) between 2000 and 2016 has been performed in this work. The major environmental impacts during the construction period are noise, land use and disturbance of the air and water's quality. During the operation period, the major environmental impacts are noise, odors from the depuration process and the visual impact of the facilities. About the EIA process, results show the processing time is too long, scoping phase has a success rate about 57.2% and regional public administrations are the most participative, both at scoping phase and at public participation phase. In general, public participation during period of exhibition is very low, in twelve of the RODs nobody submitted any report. The role of environmental project manager and the work environmental journal must be strengthened.

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“…Cuperus et al (1996Cuperus et al ( , 1999Cuperus et al ( , 2001, and 2002) carried out a series of studies on the ecological compensation involved in the improvement of the Dutch highway network, including the guidelines for the ecological compensation and the specific ecological compensation measures in the planning phase, as well as the preparation and implementation of the ecological compensation measures. Seen through a review of the environmental impact assessment records for this decision, Villarroya and Puig (2013) explored the particular role that ecological compensation has had in road and railway environmental impact assessment procedures in Spain.…”

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Social responsibility in infrastructure mega-projects: A case study of ecological compensation for Sousa chinensis during the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

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Sheng³

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Social responsibility in infrastructure mega-projects: A case study of ecological compensation for Sousa chinensis during the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Abstract Ecological compensation plays an important role in implementing the social responsibility of infrastructure mega-projects. Based on the results of a field study, an in-depth interview, and archive data, this paper introduces the ecological compensation for Sousa chinensis (the Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin) during the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. It studies the concrete measures, decision-making processes, and organizational collaboration of the ecological compensation, using the method of a case study. The present study not only enriches our understanding of the ecological compensation practice during the construction of infrastructure mega-projects, but also extends the literature on the social responsibility of infrastructure mega-projects. This sheds light on the protection of the environment as well as biodiversity in the construction of future infrastructure mega-projects.

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A proposal to improve ecological compensation practice in road and railway projects in Spain

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References 37 publications

Policy Development for Environmental Licensing and Biodiversity Offsets in Latin America

Policy Development for Environmental Licensing and Biodiversity Offsets in Latin America

Review of the environmental impact assessment process of wastewater treatment plants in Spain

Social responsibility in infrastructure mega-projects: A case study of ecological compensation for Sousa chinensis during the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

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