Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is broadly defined as a systematic process that proactively examines the potential consequences of development actions. As a planning process, the longer-term objective of EIA is to contribute to sustainable development of the environment. EIA cannot meet its sustainability objective without a systematic follow-up program. Notwithstanding the benefits of a follow-up program, there is little guidance for best practices. The problem is that follow-up programs are not widely implemented in EIA and the lessons learned from experience have not been documented. This research explores the principles and characteristics of best-practice follow-up in an attempt to identify the lessons learned and issues raised from experiences in Canadas mining resource sector. A normative framework for doing follow-up is developed from the literature using these principles. Based on document analysis and semi-structured interviews, a case study of the Ekati Diamond Mine, Canadas first diamond mine, is evaluated based on the best practice principles, which advocate actions for success. The Ekati mine is meeting requirements in the best practice principles, as established in the best practice framework, which is outlined in part, in licenses obtained by Ekati. This is exemplified in BHPBs, use of hypothesis in impact prediction. However, there are normative principles and elements that are left out in Broken Hill Proprietary Billiton Ekatis follow-up programs. For example, there is some concern about the level to which local knowledge has been incorporated and the level to which monitoring of socio-economic elements is being carried out. Based on Ekatis experience, a number of new lessons emerge to inform the framework on best practice follow-up namely, that there is need for mandatory, non-ephemeral legislation on follow-up, that baseline data needs to be repeatedly collected after projects have started operations and that there is a need for firmer requirements if proponents are to exercise serious commitment to public involvement.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is broadly defined as a systematic process that proactively examines the potential consequences of development actions. As a planning process, the longer-term objective of EIA is to contribute to sustainable development of the environment. EIA cannot meet its sustainability objective without a systematic follow-up program. Notwithstanding the benefits of a follow-up program, there is little guidance for best practices. The problem is that follow-up programs are not widely implemented in EIA and the lessons learned from experience have not been documented. This research explores the principles and characteristics of best-practice follow-up in an attempt to identify the lessons learned and issues raised from experiences in Canadas mining resource sector. A normative framework for doing follow-up is developed from the literature using these principles. Based on document analysis and semi-structured interviews, a case study of the Ekati Diamond Mine, Canadas first diamond mine, is evaluated based on the best practice principles, which advocate actions for success. The Ekati mine is meeting requirements in the best practice principles, as established in the best practice framework, which is outlined in part, in licenses obtained by Ekati. This is exemplified in BHPBs, use of hypothesis in impact prediction. However, there are normative principles and elements that are left out in Broken Hill Proprietary Billiton Ekatis follow-up programs. For example, there is some concern about the level to which local knowledge has been incorporated and the level to which monitoring of socio-economic elements is being carried out. Based on Ekatis experience, a number of new lessons emerge to inform the framework on best practice follow-up namely, that there is need for mandatory, non-ephemeral legislation on follow-up, that baseline data needs to be repeatedly collected after projects have started operations and that there is a need for firmer requirements if proponents are to exercise serious commitment to public involvement.

Orientador: Egle Novaes Teixeira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T12:16:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Barbosa_GeorgeLeandroMonte_M.pdf: 1812688 bytes, checksum: acc5549dd8817e0291e706503aaf1129 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O meio rural não é mais um espaço onde são desenvolvidas atividades exclusivamente agrícolas, já que, tem passado por intensas mudanças, que induzem a pluriatividade, fazendo com que o espaço seja tido como um continuum da zona urbana. Estas mudanças que assemelham o rural ao urbano trazem, a reboque desta reestruturação, mazelas há muito discutidas e pouco solucionadas, das" cidades", como uso e ocupação do solo de maneira desregrada, ausência de saneamento básico, entre outras. A respeito do saneamento, o Gerenciamento Integrado de Resíduo Sólido ainda é uma realidade bem distante, para as comunidades rurais, mesmo para aquelas juntas às zonas urbanas. Desta forma, o objetivo deste trabalho é a elaboração de um Plano de Gerenciamento de Resíduo Sólido para o Assentamento Sumaré II, localizado no município de Sumaré, no Estado de São Paulo, através do diagnóstico da situação do resíduo no local, caracterizando-o, bem como avaliando o programa de coleta de resíduo desenvolvido na comunidade. Para tanto, foi feita uma análise do espaço e dos indivíduos, por meio de dados bibliográficos e questionários de campo, bem como a caracterização do resíduo, para determinar a composição gravimétrica e a taxa de resíduo gerada na comunidade. O trato com o resíduo da comunidade, por parte da prefeitura, é incipiente e inconsistente. Há uma grande distinção de hábitos dos assentados, identificada pelo material que constitui o resíduo de cada família, bem como o modo de descarte do mesmo. De maneira geral, as taxas de resíduo não são geradas com a mesma magnitude, não havendo período do ano com uma produção diferenciada de resíduo. A partir das análises do resíduo é possível afirmar que existe uma "urbanização dos hábitos" dos assentados, realçando a idéia de que esta zona torna-se um continuum das urbanidades / Abstract: The agricultural area is not more a space where exclusively agricultural activities are developed since it has being passed for intense changes that induce the pluriactivities, making that the space is had as a continuum of the urban zone. These changes create, when comparing the agricultural and the urban area, problems that are very argued and little solved about the "cities", such as use and occupation of the ground in disordered way, absence of basic sanitation, among others. Regarding the sanitation, the Integrated Management of Solid Waste still is a very distant reality, for the agricultural communities, even for those near to the urban zones. The objective of this work is to elaborate a Solid Waste Management Plan for the li Assentamento Sumaré II", located in Sumaré city, in São Paulo State, through making a situation inventory of the waste in the place, characterizing it, as well as evaluating the existing program of waste collection developed in the community. In order to get it, analysis of the space and the individuals were made, by bibliographical data and field questionnaires, as well as the characterization of the waste to determine the gravimetrical composition and the taxes of waste generated in the community. The community waste management made by the city hall was incipient and inconsistent. It has a great distinction of habits of these rural people, identified by the waste content of each family, as well as the way of discarding it. In general way, the waste taxes are not generated with the same magnitude, not having a differentiated production of waste by period of the year. From the waste analysis it is possible to affirm that a "urbanization of the customs" of the rural people exists, corroborating with the idea that this zone becomes one continuum of the urbanities / Mestrado / Saneamento e Ambiente / Mestre em Engenharia Civil