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Behovsbedömning av detaljplaner i Östergötlands kommuner.Jahic, Alma January 2010 (has links)
In Sweden, detailed development plans (DDPs) go through a screening process to decide whether their implementation could cause significant environmental impact or not. The criteria in the legislation were studied to see if an environmental impact assessment was needed. This study also investigated 26 DDPs from 12 out of 13 of the municipalities in Östergötland and how they meet up to the demands in relevant legislation, for example the rules for Environmental Impact Assessments. Plans that concerned suburban communities and new housing were selected. The environmental issues highlighted in the plan documents were compared to selected topics from the GIS data base 'Östgötakartan' to see if the assessments made by the municipalities were reasonable judged. The results showed that in 54% of the municipalities, the screening processes corresponded with the Environmental Impact Assessment criteria. The most common flaws were that neither the national environmental goals nor the motivation of the decision was given any significant attention. The results of the questions that were sent to the municipalities showed that the working procedures vary among the municipalities. 73% of the municipalities used checklists as a basis for their assessments, whereas the rest worked in workgroups. Further the results indicated that there was a correlation between screening processes which had large flaws, according to the legislation criteria, and the lack of a county ecologist. In Sweden there is no real monitoring of how the legislation is implanted in the screening processes in different municipalities, which means that the processes can have flaws.
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Motorsport and Sustainability : Case Study of MXStar Team’s Environmental Impact OptimizationKravchenko, Maria, Nosov, Igor January 2011 (has links)
Given paper discusses motocross as a part of motorsport from the viewpoint of sustainabilityand considers continuously growing impact of human activity on the environment.The theoretical framework of this paper is based on the concepts which position motorsport ina context of sustainability at both global and team levels within the borders of systems theory.Training and racing activities of the MXStar team based in Uppsala (Sweden) are described inthe paper from the environmental perspective. Changing of the team’s technical performanceas well as their behavioural models has certain driving and restraining forces that are analyzedin particular in the discussion part of the paper. Recommendations for the MXStar team havebeen developed in accordance with the results of detailed analysis of the team’senvironmental impact.The authors concluded that environmental performance of motocross racing composes fromtechnical and behavioural inputs of each participating team. In order to optimize theenvironmental impact of the motocross each team member has to be innovative in bothperspectives.
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Application of structural equation modeling in analyzing the ecological changes in coastal watersChou, Wei-rung 02 January 2012 (has links)
In order to understand the relative impact from natural and anthropogenic sources, Principal Component Analysis - Structural Equation Modeling (PCA-SEM) was used to analyze the phytoplankton dynamics in coastal waters of Taiwan. PCA was used to analyze the changes of the water quality, followed by constructing of conceptual model which incorporated with biological data, and finally verified by SEM. Three study sites were selected: Chang Hua coastal waters, Kaohsiung mud dumping waters and the adjacent waters of Kaohsiung Nansing project. These sites represent the ordinary coastal water ecosystem of western Taiwan, off-shore ocean with one defined pollution sources, and anthropogenic impacted water area, respectively. The results showed that in Chang Hua coastal waters, river input and seasonal change were the primary factors effecting phytoplankton change. Water temperature was the main reason of phytoplankton changes, followed by the influence of dissolved organic matter in Kaohsiung mud dumping site. Whereas waters near Kaohsiung Nansing project, cooling water from Daling power plant coupled with the change of nutrients and heavy metal concentrations, as well as oil pollution, were the major causes of phytoplankton variation. The goodness-of-fits were good for the three models in this study, revealing that PCA- SEM is suitable to analyze the environmental changes of the costal waters of Taiwan. Logistic methods used in this study are also good for the study of benthic or fish community, and are suitable to apply on environmental impact assessments.
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Public participation and environmental impact assessment in Romania : the case of Roșia Montana : a call for the institutionalisation of public participationEsko, Susan Anne January 2011 (has links)
In this thesis I develop a critical theory of public participation and deliberation in post-communist Romania. Primarily, this theory is developed from a critical assessment of two intermediate-level Romanian institutions: the deliberative system that has formed to debate the authorisation of a proposed gold mining project in Roșia Montana, Romania and the legitimacy claims of the series of hybrid forums that were convened as part of that project's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The hybrid forum legitimacy claims were assessed based on a standard of hybrid forum legitimacy developed in this thesis from deliberative democracy theory and practice. Grounded in new institutionalism theory, this thesis describes the historical and contemporary socio-economic conditions that have shaped Romanian public participation and deliberation.
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Environmental Assessment for Proposed On-Airport Access Road: Double Eagle II AirportEvans, Michael J., Stoffle, Richard W. 06 1900 (has links)
This environmental assessment document has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of
Section 102 (2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (PL 91 -190, 42
USC 4321 et. seq.), Tide V of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 (PL 97 -248,
as amended by the Airport Safety and Capacity Act of 1987), and other laws as applicable.
The format and subject matter included in this report conform to the requirements and
standards set forth by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as contained principally in
Order 5050.4A, Airport Environmental Handbook, but also addresses appropriate items in FAA
Order 1050.1 D, Policies and Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts.
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Solar PEIS Native American Ethnographic Study Photographic CollectionStoffle, Richard W., Van Vlack, Kathleen A., Dukes, Phillip, De Sola, Stephanie, Johnson, Hannah 05 September 2013 (has links)
These photographs offer illustrations of the people, places and resources in the 9 proposed solar energy zones (SEZs) visited during the Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.
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Ethnography in Bits and Pieces in Social Assessments.Stoffle, Richard W., Van Vlack, Kathleen A., Johnspn, Hannah, Simmons, Kristen 03 1900 (has links)
These four presentations were prepared for the Society for Applied Anthropology's annual meeting in 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. These presentations present findings from the Solar PEIS Native American ethnographic study. / The Ethnographic Research team at BARA in the School of Anthropology, UofA has shifted to what we are calling “ethnography in bits and pieces” for situating American Indian cultural concerns. We wanted to provide essays that would more directly target the resources, places, and landscapes actually identified by tribal representatives during field work. We chose to negotiate the essays with the tribal representatives. We chose to have the essays follow the discussion of tribal cultural concerns and thus be directly responsive to those concerns. This session provides cases from three studies and assessment of this new methodology.
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Piapaxa 'Uipi (Big River Canyon)Stoffle, Richard W., Halmo, David B., Evans, Michael J., Austin, Diane E. 06 1900 (has links)
The traditional lands of the Southern Paiute people are bounded by more than 600 miles of Piapaxa (Colorado River) from the Kaiparowits Plateau in the north to Blythe, California in the south. According to traditional beliefs, Southern Paiute people were created in this traditional land and, through this creation, the Creator gave Paiute people a special supernatural responsibility to protect and manage this land including its water and natural resources. Puaxantu Tuvip (sacred land) is the term that refers to traditional ethnic territory. Within these lands no place was more special than Piapaxa 'uipi (Big River Canyon) where the Colorado River cuts through the Grand Canyon.
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Social impact assessment : the status of practice in the North West Province of South Africa / J.A. du PisaniDu Pisani, J A January 2005 (has links)
There is no doubt that the assessment of social impacts is as important, in some cases
even more important, than the assessment of biophysical and economic impacts of
development projects. Nonetheless, social impact assessment (SIA) has remained an
"orphan" in the broader environmental impact assessment (EIA) context, both
internationally and in South Africa, and is often neglected or treated as a less important
aspect of an EIA.
It was the aim of this study to measure perceptions of relative neglect of SIA in South
Africa against the theory and practice of SIA as reflected in the literature. The basic
hypothesis was that, whereas the theory and practice of SIA has reached a
sophisticated level in the developed world, the practice of SIA in South Africa is not yet
on a sound footing and that it does not receive the professional attention it deserves in a
country beset by enormous social challenges. Thus the research problem was whether
SIA is practiced at a satisfactory level of proficiency in South Africa. Social aspects of
impact assessment in the North West Province of South Africa were investigated, with
the aim to identify shortcomings and their possible causes and to make
recommendations for improvement.
The article format was used, and the main section of the study comprises two articles.
The first article, a theoretical perspective based on a literature study, is a critical
evaluation of SIA as part of the EIA process in South Africa against the background of
international guidelines and best practices. The article includes sections on the historical
background of the development of SIA in South Africa, the legal status and requirements
of SIA in the country, and a critical evaluation of SIA regulation in South Africa. It was
found that the persistent problems of SIA practice, experienced in other parts of the
world, are also evident in South Africa. Apart from institutional, financial and
professional constraints, there are also serious problems associated with approach and
methods.
The second article is an evaluation of and recommendations for the improvement of the
practice of SIA in the North West Province. An empirical study of 26 EIAs, performed in
the province between 1999 and 2002, was done. It was established that in terms of
social baseline data, the identification of significant social impacts, specialist studies,
public participation, recommended mitigation measures, and the attention paid to social
impacts in records of decision (RODS) SIA practice in the North West Province is far
from satisfactory. Apathy towards social impacts is associated with a general lack of SIA
expertise.
The following recommendations are made in the study to improve the level of SIA
practice: a system of mandatory registration of SIA practitioners should be introduced;
specialized SIA training programmes for SIA practitioners and officials should be
developed and accredited; SIA specialists should be used to assess significant social
impacts identified in EIAs; a policy framework and code of ethics for SIA practice should
be developed; methodological guidelines for SIA should be supplied in or as a
supplement to the new EIA guidelines; and the public participation process should be
redesigned. / Thesis (M. Environmental Science)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Political Opportunity and Public Participation: EIA in Northern Canada and South AfricaBoyco, Morgan Walter 24 January 2011 (has links)
This research critically examines the process of public participation in the politically contested arena of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in two case studies: the Ekati diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories and the Richards Bay Minerals project in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Each case offers the chance to examine and compare the potentialities of expanded public participation in EIA and the promise of deliberative environmental decision-making. The concept of deliberative public participation has become the new normative standard for citizen engagement in numerous planning and policy-making processes, including EIA. It calls for increased participation by previously disadvantaged communities in the decisions that affect them through multi-stakeholder dialogue. Addressing the need for a realistic assessment of deliberative democratic practice, this study explores the limits of deliberative process by looking at specific examples of EIA, bringing into focus political processes, power relations and the structural conditions affecting citizen engagement.
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