Development of guidelines for improving the effectiveness of environmental assessment

A review of environmental statements in the British forest sector

“…Indeed, the results suggest that UK forest sector assessments were generally of an inferior quality to those of other sectors and countries (Dancey and Lee, 1993;McMahon, 1996;McGrath and Bond, 1997;Hickie and Wade, 1998;and Barker and Wood, 1999). At the project level, the factors that contributed to the overall poor quality of ESs centred around the lack of robust scoping and ES review by the Forestry Commission as the competent authority.…”

Evaluation of environmental impact assessment effectiveness in Slovakia

“…Some countries, such as Denmark, Great Britain, Australia, Finland, Lithuania, Netherlands, India, Estonia, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana and South Africa have carried out detailed studies on the effectiveness of EIA and named the problems to be solved (Simpson 2001;Ahammed & Nixon 2006;Christensen 2006;Pölönen 2006;Kruopienė et al 2008;Heinma & Põder 2010;Toro et al 2010;Pölönen et al 2011;Panigrahi & Amirapu 2012;Campion & Essel 2013;Runhaar et al 2013). Different authors relate EIA effectiveness either to the quality of EIA reports and EIA procedural implementation (Bailey 1997;Baker & Woods 1999;Harmer 2005;Pinho et al 2006), or to the role of EIA in development planning (Sadler 1996;Hickie & Wade 1998;Hacking & Guthrie 2008;Kolhoff et al 2013). Sadler (1996) identified four aspects of effectiveness: the quality of the reports, the effect on decisionmaking, the effectiveness of prediction and management of the impacts and monitoring and post-auditing.…”

O relatório ambiental preliminar como instrumento de avaliação da viabilidade ambiental de sistemas de distribuição de gás

“…Análise realizada de forma qualitativa e multidisciplinar, fundamentada essencialmente na experiência específica de Analistas Periciais e Assessores do Ministério Público Federal, sem o uso de dados estatísticos (Cureau et al, 2004 Sadler (1996), Hickie (1998), IAIA e IEA (1999), Lee (et al, 2003), Vanclay (2003aVanclay ( e 2003b, UNEP (2004), DEAT (2004), Glasson et al, 2005e Sánchez (2006.…”

“…Este relatório deve ser voltado para as informações necessárias a uma adequada tomada de decisão quanto à aprovação ou recusa do projeto em análise. Este documento deve servir ainda para informar o público afetado e interessado, quanto aos resultados obtidos durante o processo (Hickie, 1998).…”