2. Table of Contents
โข Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
โข Initial Environmental Examination (IEE)
โข Objectives of EIA
โข Why EIA ?
โข History of EIA
โข Global Challenges
3. Environmental Impact Assessment
Systematic, documented, objective evaluation that
gives an insight in the social, economical and
environmental impacts of proposed project. Its
possible preventive and remedial measures as well
as alternatives.
4. Initial Environmental Examination
It is a preliminary environmental review of reasonably
foreseeable impacts of proposed activity to determine the
adverse impacts whether an EIA is required or not
5. Difference in IEE and EIA
IEE
โข Preliminary Environmental
Review
โข For Small Scale Project
โข Low Cost Projects
โข Project with no Significant
adverse Impacts
EIA
โข Full Environmental
Assessment
โข For Large Scale Projects
โข High Cost Projects
โข Projects with Significant
Adverse Impacts
6.
7. Why EIA ?
โข Global Commitment
โข For Project Approval
โข Mandatory for All Donors
โข Reduces Environmental Damage
โข Lower Project Cost in Long term
โข Ensures that Development is according to
๏ผ National Quality Standards
๏ผ Governmental Polices
๏ผ International Obligations
8. History of EIA
Pre 1960s
๏ No Environmental Awareness
๏ Abundance Paradigm
๏ No Depletion of Natural Resources
๏ Economic Growth is more Important
๏ No regulatory Control
9. History of EIA
Post 1960s
๏ Environmental Awareness
๏ Environmental Protection Paradigm
๏ Natural Resources are Limited
๏ Focus was on Environment
๏ Approval of Environmental Regulations
10. Global Challenges
โข Increasing Population
โข Industrialization and Urbanization
โข Intensive Agriculture
โข Declining Resources
โข Altered Biogeochemical Cycle
โข Social Disintegration