Tag: EIA mechanism
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Draft Environmental Impact Assessment, 2020: Should environmental disaster be the cost of development?
As the name suggests, EIA is supposed to assess the environmental impact of development projects, to minimize the adverse effects of development on the environment. As per the International Association for Impact Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is “the process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development…
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Assessing India’s ‘Environmental Impact Assessment’ Procedure
By Riya Mathur, SRCC, Delhi. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) refers to the formal process undertaken to understand the environmental consequences of any development project or business plan upon its implementation. It is thus an efficient tool to identify projects which can be executed with the best possible combination of economic and environmental considerations.…