Environmental Impact Assessment Analyzing Benefits and Actions Examrace

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Dr. Manishika Jain in this lecture explains the concept of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and difference between EIA and Strategic EIA. • Tool to identify environmental, social and economic impacts of a project prior to decision-making – UNEP • In India, Started in 1978-79 by river valley projects • EIA has now been made mandatory under the Environmental Protection Act, 1986 for 29 categories of developmental activities that involves investments of Rs. 50 crores more • Chapters: • 0:00 Introduction: Environmental Impact Assessment - Analysing Benefits and Actions • 0:07 EIA – Definition • 4:51 Stages Involved in EIA • 6:16 Which Projects fall under EIA? • 7:59 What to Address? • 9:19 Benefits of EIA • 10:12 Procedure • 11:56 Follow Up • 12:07 Polluter’s Pay Principle • 12:24 Precautionary Principle • 13:24 Strategic EIA • 14:09 Environment Impact Assessment • 14:19 Strategic Environment Assessment • #Implementation #Effluents #Concentration #Hazardous #Cumulatively #Screening #Compliance #Enforcement #Developmental #Investments #Manishika #Examrace • • Stages Involved in EIA • Screening • Scoping • Assessment Evaluation • Report EIA: Non-technical summary for the general audience • Review EIS • Decision Making: Whether to approve project or not • Monitoring, Compliance, Enforcement • Environmental Auditing • Which projects fall under EIA? • Which can significantly alter the landscape, land use pattern lead to concentration of working population • Which need upstream development activity like assured mineral and forest products supply • Which need downstream industrial process development • Those involving manufacture, handling and use of hazardous materials • Those sited near ecologically sensitive areas, urban centers, hill resorts, places of scientific and religious importance • Industrial Estates which could cumulatively cause significant environmental damage • What to Address? • Meteorology and air quality • Hydrology and water quality • Site and its surroundings • Occupational safety and health • Details of the treatment and disposal of effluents and the methods of alternative uses • Transportation of raw material and details of material handling • Control equipment and measures proposed to be adopted • Benefits of EIA • Environmental benefits • Economic benefits • Reduced cost and time of project implementation and design • Avoided treatment • Clean-up costs • Impacts of laws and regulations • Procedure • Follow Up • Precautionary Principle: If an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public, or environment, in the absence of scientific consensus, the burden of proof falls on those taking the action. Part of Rio Declaration Kyoto Protocol. • Polluter’s Pay Principle: To make the party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment. Support from OECD and European Community. • Strategic EIA • Formalized, systematic comprehensive process to identify evaluate environmental consequences of proposed policies, plans or programs • Ensure full inclusion • Address at earliest possible stage of decision-making on a par with economic social considerations • Can be applied to entire sector • For NET Paper 1 material refer - http://www.examrace.com/CBSE-UGC-NET/... • Examrace is number 1 education portal for competitive and scholastic exam like UPSC, NET, SSC, Bank PO, IBPS, NEET, AIIMS, JEE and more. We provide free study material, exam sample papers, information on deadlines, exam format etc. Our vision is to provide preparation resources to each and every student even in distant corders of the globe. • Dr. Manishika Jain served as visiting professor at Gujarat University. Earlier she was serving in the Planning Department, City of Hillsboro, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA with focus on application of GIS for Downtown Development and Renewal. She completed her fellowship in Community-focused Urban Development from Colorado State University, Colorado, USA. For more information - https://www.examrace.com/About-Examra... #examrace #upsc #ugcnet

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