Environmental impact assessment
The state of the art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21153751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Morgan (0000-0001-7934-4911, University of Otago, corresponding author), Richard K Morgan |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-14 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-5517 • E-ISSN: 1471-5465 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14615517.2012.661557 |
| OpenAlex | W2069467462 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 311 |
| References cited | 47 |
This paper reviews progress in environmental impact assessment (EIA) over the last 40 years, with particular emphasis on the last 15–20 years, and poses the question: is EIA ready to meet future challenges? The first part of the paper briefly examines the spread of EIA around the world, recent trends in the uptake of EIA, and the continuing emergence of variants of impact assessment. The second part of the paper concentrates on current issues in EIA, under three broad headings: theory and EIA, practice issues and EIA effectiveness. An important thread running through the second part of the paper is how discussions about EIA theory, a feature of the last 15 years, are affecting the different areas of EIA practice and evaluation
Environmental impact assessment · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Impact assessment · Political science · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments · Environmental Science · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Public Administration
A avaliação ambiental estratégica e o planejamento dos recursos hídricos
Efetividade de projetos de desenvolvimento local na perspectiva da avaliação de impacto social
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 and Associated Policy
Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex social-ecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems
It Is Like We Are Living in a Different World”
Current Global Health Impact Assessment Practice
A defasagem de conhecimento na prática na Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental em projetos de energia eólica
Modificações do licenciamento ambiental em Minas Gerais
Protected Areas approach in the Brazilian EIA system
Participação pública no processo de avaliação de impacto ambiental no estado do Espírito Santo
Licenciamento ambiental simplificado na região sudeste Brasileira
Alternativas locacionais em Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental de rodovias mineiras
Análise da qualidade dos estudos de impacto ambiental no estado do Espírito Santo (2007-2013)
Instituições para regulação ambiental
A avaliação de impactos cumulativos no planejamento ambiental de hidrelétricas na bacia do rio Teles Pires (região amazônica)
A game theory perspective on environmental assessment
Cumulative effects in strategic environmental assessment
Performance of EIA authority and effectiveness of EIA system in Pakistan
Environmental Impact Assessment in the marine environment
EIA practice in India and its evaluation using SWOT analysis
Retracted
Unraveling Environmental Impact Assessment Practitioners in Brazil
Desvendando os Praticantes da Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental no Brasil
Environment and Consultation in the Brazilian Democratic Developmental State
Analysis of Impact Assessment Practice and Mitigation for Shipping Activity in the Eastern Canadian Arctic
Environmental Assessment in the Arctic
The Future of Hydrocarbon Development in Greenland
Environmental Management
Environmental Impact Assessment
Explaining the political nature of environmental impact assessment (EIA)
Quantifying the substantive influence of public comment on United States federal environmental decisions under Nepa
Environmental impact assessments as a mechanism of regulatory intermediation
The effectiveness of health impact assessment in influencing decision-making in Australia and New Zealand 2005–2009
Net Gain
Assessing Health Impacts within Environmental Impact Assessments
HIA and EIA Are Different, but Maybe Not in the Way We Thought They Were
A framework for assessing the social impact of design
A global comparative analysis of environmental impact assessment (EIA) frameworks for marine megafauna
A ausência de análise de impactos cumulativos no licenciamento ambiental do Complexo Industrial Portuário, Pontal do Paraná, litoral sul do Brasil
A Extração Do Ouro Por Parte Das Empresas Transnacionais Em Face Do Direito Ambiental Constitucional Brasileiro
Increased dengue transmission following highway paving in the Peruvian Amazon
Unveiling social vulnerability to natural hazards in the EEA and UK
Integrating low-carbon development issues into strategic environmental assessment
Land Use Planning for Land Degradation Neutrality
Tanzanian Environmental Impact Assessment Laws and Practice for Projects in World Heritage Sites
Megaprojects Observed
The politics of conservation
EIA decision-making and administrative justice
International progress in cumulative effects assessment
Environmental Impact Assessments for deep-sea mining
Rights of Nature
A crack in the Swedish welfare façade? A review of assessing social impacts in transport infrastructure planning
Bridging the gaps in sustainability assessment
Forum
Bridging corporate social responsibility and social impact assessment
Enhancing public acceptance towards waste-to-energy incineration projects
Public participation in impact assessment
Selection of valued ecosystem components in cumulative effects assessment
Consideration and influence of climate change in environmental assessment
The environmental impact assessment midlife crisis
Treatment of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment
Environmental assessments in the Internet age
Project splitting in environmental impact assessment
Integrating heritage impact assessment into environmental impact assessment procedures
Demonstrating the benefits of impact assessment for proponents
The role of environmental assessment (EA) in Iranian water management
Sustainability assessment
Improving cumulative effects assessment
The perceived benefits of EIA for government
Does impact assessment meet stakeholder expectation
Social and human rights impact assessments
A complex network approach to environmental impact assessment
The state of the art of impact assessment in 2012
Determining what is important for sustainability
Environmental impact assessment follow-up in offshore wind energy development
Environmental impact assessment guidelines for offshore petroleum exploration seismic surveys
Quality of environmental impact assessment systems and economic growth in countries participating in the belt and road initiatives
Multi-project environmental impact assessment
Assessing habitat connectivity in environmental impact assessment
The future of impact assessment
What would environmental impact assessment look like if we started from scratch today? Designing better EIA for developed neoliberal nations
Towards an attitude-inclusive understanding of environmental assessment competence in higher education
Meta-analysis of EIA public hearings in the state of Gujarat, India
Impacts of the delay in construction of a large scale hydropower project on potential displacees
Evaluating the quality of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports (Eiars) for tourism developments in protected areas
Advancing scoping practice in environmental impact assessment
Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for achieving the UN sustainable development goals
Re-thinking the fundamentals of EIA through the identification of key assumptions for evaluation
Including health in environmental impact assessments
Teaching impact assessment
Beyond compliance
Redefining the impact assessment of buildings
Good governance quality in Namibia’s environmental impact assessment process
Using an Artificial intelligence chatbot to critically review the scientific literature on the use of Artificial intelligence in Environmental Impact Assessment
A qualitative content analysis of environmental impact assessment in Indonesia
Developing indicators for environmental licensing the case of the Brazilian offshore oil and gas sector
Evaluating the effectiveness of a national environmental and social impact assessment system
Evolution or revolution
We are all experts! Does stakeholder engagement in health impact scoping lead to consensus? A Dutch case study
The Impotence of Cumulative Effects Assessment in Canada
Muting the Voice of the Local in the Age of the Global
Rationality and effectiveness
The interminable issue of effectiveness
Issues and dilemmas in ecological scoping
International principles for best practice EIA follow-up
Achieving meaningful public participation in the environmental assessment of hydro development
A quick scan for infrastructure planning
A critical appraisal of EIA screening practice in EU Member States
Screening for environmental impact assessment projects in England
Going through the motions
The effectiveness of public participation in the environmental impact assessment process – a case study of the projected Sierilä hydropower station at Oikarainen, northern Finland
The Paradox of the Rational Comprehensive Model of Planning
Public participation in EIA of nuclear power plant decommissioning projects
Scenario analysis in environmental impact assessment
Systematic comparative and sensitivity analyses of additive and outranking techniques for supporting impact significance assessments
Public participation in environmental impact assessment—implementing the Aarhus Convention
Conceptualising sustainability assessment
Evaluating the effectiveness of impact assessment instruments
Impact significance determination—Designing an approach
Re-evaluating Sustainability Assessment
The need for subjectivity in EIA
Planning theories and environmental impact assessment
The roles of EIA in the decision-making process
Environmental assessment and planning theory
Public participation and environmental impact assessment
Conceptual and methodological challenges to integrating SEA and cumulative effects assessment
The need for EIA theory-building
Current practice and shortcomings of EIA in Lithuania
The importance of context in delivering effective EIA
Impact significance determination—Pushing the boundaries
Developing the Riam method (rapid impact assessment matrix) in the context of impact significance assessment
Scoping in environmental impact assessment
The Theory of Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA)
| Unique citing works | 311 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,55 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 283 |