What is the aim of environmental impact assessment?
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The aim of EIA can be divided into two categories. The immediate aim of EIA is to inform the process of decision making by identifying the potentially significant environmental effects and risks of development proposals. The long term aim of EIA is to promote sustainable development by ensuring that development proposals do not undermine critical resource and ecological functions or the well being, lifestyle and livelihood of the communities and peoples who depend on them.
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The objective of EIA is (i) to identify, predict and evaluate the economic, environmental and social impact of development activities (ii) to provide information on the environmental consequences for decision making and (iii) to promote environmentally sound and sustainable development through the identification of ...