Re-thinking the fundamentals of EIA through the identification of key assumptions for evaluation

Alberts, Reece; Retief, FP; Roos, Claudine; Cilliers, Dirk; Arakele, M

doi:10.1080/14615517.2019.1676069

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“…Because the EIA report provides the basis for decisionmaking, the quality of the content of the EIA report is critical if good authorisation decisions are to be made. The underlying assumption is that good quality EIA reports enhance the likelihood of achieving good decisions (Alberts et al 2020;Bond et al 2016). For this reason, the quality of EIA reports has been a particular focus of international and South African EIA research (Barker & Jones 2013;Bond et al 2018;Jalava et al 2010;Sandham et al 2008a).…”

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Evaluating Environmental Impact Assessment report quality in South African national parks

Sandham

Huysamen

Retief

et al. 2020

KOEDOE - African Protected Area Conservation and Science

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Conservation implications:The results show that EIA reports for developments in South African national parks are generally of sufficient quality for decision-making that benefits conservation. However, weaker performance regarding waste, significance determination, water-related impacts and a lack of consideration of strategic context requires a conservation-specific EIA report quality review package to improve report quality in the areas of weakness and thereby increase the value of EIA as an instrument for environmental governance and sustainable development in conservation areas.

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Evaluating Environmental Impact Assessment report quality in South African national parks

Sandham

Huysamen

Retief

et al. 2020

KOEDOE - African Protected Area Conservation and Science

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“…In order to determine the extent to which EIA complies with the principles of administrative justice, 42 EIA cases were reviewed against specially developed KPIs relating to lawfulness, procedural fairness and reasonableness (Table 1). The empirical data used formed part of a larger South African EIA system review, which relied on the Theory of Change approach to identify key performance areas (KPAs) and KPIs (Alberts 2020 andAlberts et al 2020).…”

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EIA decision-making and administrative justice: an empirical analysis

Alberts

Retief

Roos

et al. 2021

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is implemented in most countries as an administrative procedure. In this context, it is subject to the principles of administrative justice. However, to date, no empirical research has been conducted to determine the extent to which EIA decisions comply with the principles of administrative justice. In this paper, empirical data from 42 EIA cases in South Africa are used to establish EIA compliance with the administrative justice principles of lawfulness, procedural fairness and reasonableness. This is achieved by measuring EIA decisions against specially developed key performance indicators (KPIs). Overall, decisions were found to mostly comply with the principles of administrative justice. However, questions arise with regards to the quality and substance of the information feeding into the decision-making process and on which decisions are ultimately based.

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“…The protection of species through CaC has obvious relevance to the wealth of biodiversity in the PRF, highlighted in previous sections. While the CaC arrangements are considered critical for any conservation regime, failures of CaC instruments are well documented in the literature [118,119]. The strengths of CaC are that it provides a high level of certainty by defining for example boundaries of PAs and prescribing behaviour in relation to listed species and ecosystems.…”

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Conserving Freshwater Biodiversity in an African Subtropical Wetland: South Africa’s Lower Phongolo River and Floodplain

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Netherlands²,

Retief³

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Freshwater biodiversity is under constant threat from a range of anthropogenic stressors. Using South Africa's Phongolo River and floodplain (PRF) as a study case, the aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the conservation and management of freshwater biodiversity in a highly diverse subtropical ecosystem. The PRF is the largest floodplain system in South Africa which is severely threatened by irregularly controlled flood releases from a large upstream dam, prolonged drought, deteriorating water quality, organic pollutants and the increasing dependence of the local communities. Based on a decade of survey of the PRF conducted from 2010 to 2020, this chapter highlights the current diversity of aquatic organisms (invertebrates, fishes, frogs and their parasitic fauna), followed by an overview of their biological and physical stressors. The current challenges in the management of the aquatic biodiversity of this region and a way forward to conservation strategies are also addressed in this chapter.

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Re-thinking the fundamentals of EIA through the identification of key assumptions for evaluation

Cited by 23 publications

References 35 publications

Evaluating Environmental Impact Assessment report quality in South African national parks

Evaluating Environmental Impact Assessment report quality in South African national parks

EIA decision-making and administrative justice: an empirical analysis

Conserving Freshwater Biodiversity in an African Subtropical Wetland: South Africa’s Lower Phongolo River and Floodplain

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