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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) involves several key steps. Throughout an EIA process, developers should do their best to provide opportunities for participation by all groups likely to be affected by a proposed project. For all steps, stakeholders need a chance to respond to the suggested options before a final decision is made.
During the scoping phase, the time frame and geographic boundaries for an EIA must be set. The developer should work with stakeholders to ensure that the EIA is scoped in a way that addresses their most important concerns.
Next, options for the developer’s primary proposal, including a no-build option, should be spelled out. These are likely to vary in terms of exact location, size, design, and technology.
When selecting dimensions of impact, such as forecasted effects on air and water quality, technical experts need to take account of data availability and modeling costs. Then, indicators of impact need to be scaled and weighted while confidence levels are set given varies degrees of uncertainty. There are many possible modeling and forecasting methods that can be used.
The results of an EIA should be used to decide how impacts can be mitigated, not merely to justify what a developer has previously decided. Stakeholders need a chance to hear how and why particular options are deemed acceptable and unacceptable given the range of impacts they are likely to have. In addition, developers should explain how they have decided to mitigate the costs and enhance the benefits of the project they are going to build.
EIAs are an important component of socially-responsible development. They provide the information needed to ensure meaningful public engagement.
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--Introduction to Social Impact Assessment
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