Lec1 Basic guiding principle for EIA good practice

Question 1

Purpose

Answer 1

EIA /meet / aims /informing decision making / ensuring an appropriate level of environmental
protection and human health.

Question 2

Focused

Answer 2

EIA should concentrate on significant environmental effects, taking into account the issues that matter

Question 3

adaptive

Answer 3

EIA should be adjusted to the realities, issues and circumstances of the proposals under review.

Question 4

Participative

Answer 4

EIA should inform and involve the interested and affected publics, and
their inputs and concerns should be addressed explicitly.

Question 5

Transparent

Answer 5

clear, easily understood and open process, with early notification procedure, access to
documentation, and a public record of decisions taken and reasons for them

Question 6

Rigorous

Answer 6

EIA should apply the ‘best practicable’ methodologies to address the impacts and issues being
investigated.

Question 7

Practical

Answer 7

EIA should identify measures for impact mitigation that work and can be implemented.

Question 8

Credible

Answer 8

EIA should be carried out with professionalism, rigor, fairness, objectivity, impartiality and balance.

Question 9

Efficient

Answer 9

EIA should impose the minimum cost burden on proponents consistent with meeting process requirements
and objectives