Luis E Sanchez
Biographic Data
| ID | 414944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis E Sanchez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis E |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanchez |
| SIGNATURE | SANCHEZ L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6779-8481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Enhancing biodiversity monitoring in impact assessment follow-up through landscape metrics
Field-based monitoring may be insufficient to detect biodiversity trends across scales, especially in projects that have the potential to impact extensive areas. Despite its importance, landscape-scale data collection is rare in impact monitoring practice. In this research, we tested landscape metrics to evaluate their contribution to enhancing forest biodiversity monitoring in the EIA follow-up process, using a case study of a bauxite mine in th…
Environmental impact assessment follow-up in offshore wind energy development: Strengths and gaps from regulatory frameworks in the international context
Offshore wind energy (OWE) has gained international prominence as an alternative for the energy transition. Due to their potentially significant impacts, OWE projects are often subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Within the EIA process, follow-up is a crucial step in informing project’s management and enabling learning for future EIAs. Given that the regulatory framework is a core dimension of governance and foundational to effectiv…
Impacts of offshore wind farms: Significant for whom
Significance determination is one of the most complex and least understood elements of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). In offshore projects, especially in sensitive coastal zones, this task becomes even more critical. This study evaluates the quality of significance determinations in Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) for offshore wind projects. A purposive sample of 11 EISs from England, Scotland, the United States, and Brazil was ana…
Availability and accessibility of Environmental Impact Assessment documents of the offshore wind sector in public repositories
The offshore wind energy sector is rapidly expanding globally, with dozens of new projects being proposed. As a consequence, the volume of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) documents prepared and stored in public repositories is increasing. To ensure transparency and support meaningful stakeholder participation, these documents must be available and accessible. This paper analyzes the current state of the availability and accessibility of EIA…
A systematic literature review on transparency in the mining industry reveals many under-researched topics
We considered ‘transparency’ as access to information and public participation. • Literature about transparency in the mining sector was grouped into 6 clusters. • 8 under-studied topics where identified. • Disclosure and participation on tailings management is an understudied topic. • Under the lights of the findings, recommendations for future research are presented. Local communities, civil society organizations, and investors have been callin…
Energia “Limpa” sob Tensão: Eólica Offshore, Justiça Energética e Disputa de Poderes
A expansão dos parques eólicos offshore (PEO) no Brasil, divulgados como “energia limpa”, confronta comunidades tradicionais costeiras em razão do histórico problemático das eólicas onshore. Apesar da “limpeza” em termos de emissões, as populações locais lidam frequentemente com desigualdades: informação técnica inacessível, linguagem elitista, consultas meramente protocolares e incapacidade decisória na implementação de projetos de energia renov…
Developing strategic environmental assessment in contexts of non-systematic practice: Contributions for offshore energy transition
Energy transition initiatives are expanding the frontiers of offshore wind generation. Impact assessment instruments, such as strategic environmental assessment (SEA), should consider the consequences of these developments. By reviewing the literature on SEA and a case in Brazil, we draw lessons for harnessing potential SEA contributions to support offshore wind development in jurisdictions where its practice is non-systematic, i.e. conducted in …
Developing international guidance to make impact assessment follow-up happen – reflections on an interactive design process
To advance impact assessment (IA) practice worldwide the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) has long promoted and published a series of international best practice principles, including the recently revised best practice principles for IA follow-up. IA follow-up refers to any kind of undertaking that seeks to ‘understand the outcomes of projects or plans’ that have been subject to IA. To support the implementation of these pri…
Public databases of tailings storage facilities fall short of full risk disclosure
Enhancing ecological connectivity through biodiversity offsets to mitigate impacts on habitats of large mammals in tropical forest environments
Habitat loss and fragmentation are ecological impacts of development projects known to have severe effects on mammals' populations. Here, we study the role of connectivity assessment in Environmental Impact Assessment, focusing on its contribution to determining appropriate mitigation, in particular, biodiversity offsetting. For that purpose, we analysed the dispersal of large mammals in a region potentially influenced by a mine located in the At…
Reforma do licenciamento ambiental no Brasil: Análise dos discursos no Conselho Nacional de Meio Ambiente
O Licenciamento Ambiental tem ocupado a agenda pública com debates acerca de uma ambicionada reforma legal que tramita no Congresso Nacional desde 2004. No Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente, dadas suas atribuições legais, discutem-se o regramento do Licenciamento Ambiental e possíveis alterações desde as primeiras reuniões. Por meio da análise de conteúdo de documentos de reuniões do Conselho, objetivou-se evidenciar tais discursos e os atores q…
Reforming environmental licensing in Brazil: Discourses analysis in the National Environment Council
Controversies about Environmental Licensing have been featured in the public agenda as the National Congress advances a policy reform being debated since 2004. In the National Council for the Environment, given its legal attributions, the Environmental Licensing rules and possible changes have been discussed since the first meetings. Through the analysis of Council meeting documents, the objective was to highlight such speeches and the players wh…
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Viewpoint: The far-reaching dangers of rolling back environmental licensing and impact assessment legislation in Brazil
Addressing ecosystem services from plan to project to further tiering in impact assessment: Lessons from highway planning in São Paulo, Brazil
Mitigating impacts on ecosystem services requires more than biodiversity offsets
Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for achieving the UN sustainable development goals
This article reflects on the potential for impact assessment (IA) to be a major vehicle for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While it is acknowledged that the SDGs are intended to deliver broader outcomes than IA currently does, we nevertheless argue there is significant convergence between IA and the SDGs, which we explore utilising the key dimensions of sustainability assessment: comprehensiveness, strategicness and int…
Proposed Legislation to Mine Brazil's Indigenous Lands Will Threaten Amazon Forests and Their Valuable Ecosystem Services
Keep the Amazon niobium in the ground
Addressing significant impacts coherently in environmental impact statements
To what extent can mine rehabilitation restore recreational use of forest land? Learning from 50 years of practice in southwest Australia
Identificação de serviços ecossistêmicos em áreas de floresta mediante sensoriamento remoto
O conceito de serviços ecossistêmicos tem ganhado espaço em processos de tomada de decisão e na gestão de projetos com potencial de causar significativa degradação ambiental, por explicitar a dependência que a sociedade tem dos benefícios ofertados pelos ecossistemas. Ao mesmo tempo, com o desenvolvimento de novos sensores e avanços tecnológicos, vem crescendo o uso de imagens de satélite como ferramenta do planejamento e gestão ambiental. O obje…
Mainstreaming environmental issues into housing plans: The approach of Strategic Environmental Assessment
Innovation in impact assessment theory and practice: How is it captured in the literature
Getting to ‘agreed’ post-mining land use – an ecosystem services approach
Mining companies are expected to ensure a positive legacy for communities and to engage them in defining post-mining land uses. This paper examined how an ecosystem service approach might be utilised to arrive at agreed post-mining land uses acceptable to communities and the mining company during mine closure planning. This was investigated in the context of a major bauxite mine in the Amazon region of Brazil. Data were gathered through document …
Tiering strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment in highway planning in São Paulo, Brazil
Conceptualizing impact assessment as a learning process
Environmental impact assessment, from Rio-92 to Rio+20 and beyond
The 1992 Rio Earth Summit was of paramount importance in the consolidation and international dissemination of environmental impact assessment, officially recognized as a tool for informed decision-making towards sustainable development (Principle 17, Rio Declaration) and for protection of biodiversity (Article 14, Convention on Biological Diversity). A significant development afterwards was the strengthening of strategic environmental assessment …
Analisando audiências públicas no licenciamento ambiental: Quem São E O Que Dizem Os Participantes Sobre Projetos De Usinas De Cana-De-Açúcar
Audiências públicas são o principal mecanismo para participação em processos de licenciamento ambiental no Brasil. Criadas para informar e ouvir o público, as audiências são criticadas por sua baixa capacidade de influenciar decisões, atribuída, entre outros fatores, à realização tardia no processo de licenciamento. Buscando explorar essa temática em um setor no qual a participação pública é pouco estudada, foi realizada análise documental de 25 …
Follow-up of a road building scheme in a fragile environment
Addressing ecosystem services from plan to project to further tiering in impact assessment: Lessons from highway planning in São Paulo, Brazil
Viewpoint: The far-reaching dangers of rolling back environmental licensing and impact assessment legislation in Brazil
Environmental impact assessment in France
Innovation in impact assessment theory and practice: How is it captured in the literature
Por que não avança a avaliação ambiental estratégica no Brasil
Embora discutida em certos círculos acadêmicos e governamentais há mais de vinte anos, a Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica (AAE) pouco avança no país. São conhecidos cerca de 40 AAE, mas seus resultados são pífios, se considerada sua influência sobre processos decisórios. A AAE não deveria estar limitada a planos, programas ou políticas de setores cujos principais projetos já são objeto de licenciamento ambiental, mas voltada primordialmente para p…
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon
To what extent can mine rehabilitation restore recreational use of forest land? Learning from 50 years of practice in southwest Australia
Mainstreaming environmental issues into housing plans: The approach of Strategic Environmental Assessment
What Does the Academic Research Say About Impact Assessment and Environmental Licensing in Brazil
Scholarly papers on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Brazil were reviewed aiming at surveying the state of research in this field. Searches in three databases identified 131 papers published between 1985 and 2015. They were classified under: case analysis (45%); analysis of the EIA system (32%), discussion about methods (15%) and evaluation of quality of EIA documents (8%). It was found that those papers: (i) deal with highly complex case…
Reforming environmental licensing in Brazil: Discourses analysis in the National Environment Council
Controversies about Environmental Licensing have been featured in the public agenda as the National Congress advances a policy reform being debated since 2004. In the National Council for the Environment, given its legal attributions, the Environmental Licensing rules and possible changes have been discussed since the first meetings. Through the analysis of Council meeting documents, the objective was to highlight such speeches and the players wh…
Mitigating impacts on ecosystem services requires more than biodiversity offsets
Keep the Amazon niobium in the ground
Addressing significant impacts coherently in environmental impact statements
Environmental impact assessment in France
Books
An approach to linking environmental impact assessment and environmental management systems
The failure adequately to implement mitigation measures or monitor environmental impacts following the approval of projects, is often cited as a major shortcoming of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process. The contents and recommendations of environmental impact statements (EISs) are often disregarded when environmental management systems (EMSs) are implemented. This paper focuses on a possible means of linking the EIA process to EMS i…
Follow-up of a road building scheme in a fragile environment
On the successful implementation of mitigation measures
The effectiveness of environmental impact assessment depends largely on fully implementing cost-effective mitigation and other management measures to prevent significant environmental degradation. Follow-up, management systems and monitoring are tools to achieve this. Their role is discussed in relation to a highway in São Paulo State, Brazil. A robust follow-up scheme was the main driver for the successful implementation of mitigation measures. …
Improving quality
Reviews of environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice, particularly by industrial proponents, have highlighted common shortfalls. EIA would benefit from more ‘common sense’, which is not very common. For example, issue scoping usually includes too many inconsequential factors, and issues not directly affecting project decisions. Consideration of significance is often vague, misleading or inconsistent. Quality of environmental impact statement…
Tiering strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment in highway planning in São Paulo, Brazil
Teaching impact assessment: Results of an international survey
University teachers of impact assessment (IA) at both undergraduate and graduate levels were surveyed during IAIA conferences in 2008 and 2009. A total of 32 questionnaires were returned, with respondents teaching in 18 countries. IA teaching encompasses both theory and practice. It is supported by textbooks — a sign the IA is a consolidated field — but also by case studies, government or legal guidance and guest lectures. A vast majority of lect…
Restoring Justice in Colombia: Conciliation in Equity
Examining the 'Conciliation in Equity' program in Colombia, this book provides a dramatic, cross-cultural example of community justice and a model for developing alternative methods of resolving crime
The contents and scope of environmental impact statements: How do they evolve over time
It can be expected that, over a long time span, both the contents and the scope of environmental impact statements (EISs) will evolve to incorporate new issues and new analytical approaches. A diachronic review was conducted of a sample of EISs produced by one consultancy in Brazil, specializing in mining and quarrying. Nine EISs prepared in the period 1987–2010 were selected, covering different minerals and locations. Content analysis showed tha…
Environmental impact assessment, from Rio-92 to Rio+20 and beyond
The 1992 Rio Earth Summit was of paramount importance in the consolidation and international dissemination of environmental impact assessment, officially recognized as a tool for informed decision-making towards sustainable development (Principle 17, Rio Declaration) and for protection of biodiversity (Article 14, Convention on Biological Diversity). A significant development afterwards was the strengthening of strategic environmental assessment …
From neighbors to future generations: We are all together! On integration in impact assessment practice
Impact assessment (IA) practice unfolded into several branches. Concerns that the proliferation of assessment types may impair effectiveness and nurture arguments detracting its qualities are voiced and result in calls for integration. This paper responds to the argument that integration could be achieved through better scoping. Additional evidence of specialization is provided while the Environmental and Social Performance Standards adopted by t…
The environmental impact statement after two generations: Managing environmental power
The impact of the Iirsa Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia
Strategic environmental assessment of a large infrastructure programmeThe Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) was launched in September 2000 by the go
Mountain movers: Mining, sustainability and the agents of change, by Daniel M. Franks
Cumulative effects assessment and management: Principles, processes and practices
Professor Larry Canter is a well-known and highly cited author on environmental impact assessment. For many years, he has been researching, consulting, teaching, and training on several aspects of
Analisando audiências públicas no licenciamento ambiental: Quem São E O Que Dizem Os Participantes Sobre Projetos De Usinas De Cana-De-Açúcar
Audiências públicas são o principal mecanismo para participação em processos de licenciamento ambiental no Brasil. Criadas para informar e ouvir o público, as audiências são criticadas por sua baixa capacidade de influenciar decisões, atribuída, entre outros fatores, à realização tardia no processo de licenciamento. Buscando explorar essa temática em um setor no qual a participação pública é pouco estudada, foi realizada análise documental de 25 …
Advancing scoping practice in environmental impact assessment: An examination of the Brazilian federal system
Despite availability of guidance on scoping in environmental impact assessment (EIA) in several jurisdictions, there is limited documented evidence about how scoping is actually conducted in practice. We benchmark internationally recommended good practices and develop a conceptual framework to evaluate scoping practice, applying it to the Brazilian federal EIA process. Practices are organized in four categories: provision of initial information, …
Practitioners’ perceptions of the Brazilian environmental impact assessment system: Results from a survey
Practitioners play a key role in implementing environmental impact assessment (EIA) policies. Gauging their perception can help in designing legislation or regulation reforms and signals what needs more attention in research. The Brazilian EIA system is under review by lawmakers, but there is scant information about the views of professionals. A survey was conducted to inquiry on practitioners' perception of the Brazilian EIA system regarding: (1…
Reforming EIA systems: A critical review of proposals in Brazil
Conceptualizing impact assessment as a learning process
What Does the Academic Research Say About Impact Assessment and Environmental Licensing in Brazil
Scholarly papers on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Brazil were reviewed aiming at surveying the state of research in this field. Searches in three databases identified 131 papers published between 1985 and 2015. They were classified under: case analysis (45%); analysis of the EIA system (32%), discussion about methods (15%) and evaluation of quality of EIA documents (8%). It was found that those papers: (i) deal with highly complex case…
Por que não avança a avaliação ambiental estratégica no Brasil
Embora discutida em certos círculos acadêmicos e governamentais há mais de vinte anos, a Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica (AAE) pouco avança no país. São conhecidos cerca de 40 AAE, mas seus resultados são pífios, se considerada sua influência sobre processos decisórios. A AAE não deveria estar limitada a planos, programas ou políticas de setores cujos principais projetos já são objeto de licenciamento ambiental, mas voltada primordialmente para p…
Getting to ‘agreed’ post-mining land use – an ecosystem services approach
Mining companies are expected to ensure a positive legacy for communities and to engage them in defining post-mining land uses. This paper examined how an ecosystem service approach might be utilised to arrive at agreed post-mining land uses acceptable to communities and the mining company during mine closure planning. This was investigated in the context of a major bauxite mine in the Amazon region of Brazil. Data were gathered through document …
Never again. Reflections on environmental responsibility after Roe 8
A long and fierce battle opposing suburban communities in Perth, Western Australia, to government planners, and the role of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the subject of this multi-author
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