ESCI 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Global Environment Facility, Environmental Impact Statement, Ozone Depletion
14 Jun 2018
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Lecture 17: Environmental Impact Assessment
EIA Methodologies
MDC and LDC perspectives on industrialization: MDCS have a history of it so they know
it has a big impact on the environment. LDCS don’t have a history
“Environmental Ethics”, Sustainable Development, planning hierarchy (national
economic plan, sector, project), poverty alleviation is at the bottom of it all: an ultimate
objective
1960s origin of EIA
Scope (project impacts, baseline, and alternatives)
Analytic Functions, identification (checklists, questionnaires, matrices, overlays)
Prediction (modelling), evaluation (tradeoffs, CBA)
Severance: degree of separation
Assessment Steps: Scooping, Problem Identification, Formulation of alternatives,
profiling, projection, analysis of alternatives, evaluation, mitigation –plan for fixing bad
sides, monitoring, management)
Environmental Impact Statement should have:
• Probable effects of human use of land
• Environmental impact statement (purpose and need for project, comparison of
alternatives, description of environment of area, discussion of environmental
consequences).
• Direct and indirect effects
• Energy requirements and conservation potential
• Depletion of resources
• Impacts on urban quality and cultural or historical resources
• Possible conflicts with other land use plans, policies, controls and mitigation
measures
Economic Issues
Donors, mitigation actions, debt retirement funds.
Global Environmental Facility (GEF) funding. GEF Mandate: reducing GG, protecting
biodiversity, protecting international waters, reduction of ozone layer depletion.
Capacity building: institutional development, provision of computers and softwares to
enable an institution to utilize GIS. Human resource development.
Enabling Environment: adjacent areas close to a project area taking inspiration from
their success
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Document Summary
Mdc and ldc perspectives on industrialization: mdcs have a history of it so they know it has a big impact on the environment. Environmental ethics , sustainable development, planning hierarchy (national economic plan, sector, project), poverty alleviation is at the bottom of it all: an ultimate objective. Assessment steps: scooping, problem identification, formulation of alternatives, profiling, projection, analysis of alternatives, evaluation, mitigation plan for fixing bad sides, monitoring, management) Impacts on urban quality and cultural or historical resources measures. Gef mandate: reducing gg, protecting biodiversity, protecting international waters, reduction of ozone layer depletion. Capacity building: institutional development, provision of computers and softwares to enable an institution to utilize gis. Enabling environment: adjacent areas close to a project area taking inspiration from their success. Risk transition: stage of development vs. level of risk on a graph. Traditional issues are less of a risk the more developed you are.
