Going beyond environmental impact assessment: Environmental input to planning and design
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been, and remains for the time being, a very important tool of environmental management -- though not always for the reasons one would expect. Major achievements of EIA have been through indirect benefits that have had little recognition to date, particularly the achievements of its stimulative and educative roles. However, EIA is evolving as a planning tool and will continue to do so, and the authors argue that, in time, one will be able to go beyond EIA as a separate stand alone process. They indicate the requirements for its eventual absorption into project planning and design, and the concomitant need to fully incorporate environmental issues in land use planning to address those matters that cannot be addressed on a project-by-project basis.
- OSTI ID:
- 182911
- Journal Information:
- Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 15, Issue 6; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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