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An environmental impact assessment describes a process which produces a written statement to be used to guide decision-making, with several related functions. First, it should provide decision makers with information on the environmental consequences of proposed activities and, in some cases, programmes and policies, and their alternatives. Secondly, it requires decisions to be influenced by that information. And, thirdly, it provides a mechanism for ensuring the participation of potentially affected persons in the decision making process.
Since environmental impact assessments were first established in the domestic law of the United States under the 1972 National Environmental Protection Act, they have been progressively adopted in a very large number of national legal systems. Internationally, environmental impact assessments are required under numerous international conventions and in EC law, in the requirements in various non multilateral development banks, and in various non -binding instruments adopted at the regional and global level. Principle 17 of the Rio Declaration states that environmental impact assessment. as a national instrument, shall be undertaken for proposed activities that are likely to have a significant adverse impact on the environment and are subject to a decision of a competent national authority.
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Environmental Information
Liability for Environmental Damage
International Trade and Competition
Financial Resources, Technology and Intellectual Property
Foreign Investment
ISBN - 9788178847573
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Pages : 280
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