Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management
Publisher
World Scientific
School
School of Science
RAS ID
29650
Abstract
Follow-up is an essential component of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) if the success of EIA in improving the sustainability of a project once implemented is to be determined. This paper aims to establish universally-applicable criteria for EIA follow-up to evaluate project performance once assessed and underway. A suite of 24 criteria is derived from EIA follow-up best practice principles published by the International Association for Impact Assessment. The criteria are categorized according to the five dimensions of EIA follow-up: monitoring, evaluation, management, communication and governance. Posed as questions, the criteria support qualitative assessments of EIA follow-up performance for a project. Through application of the criteria to a case study currently under construction (the Shell Cove Marina project in eastern Australia), we found they provided an effective basis for a document review process delivering a short but informative account of the follow-up performance of the case study. The more robust evaluation of some of the criteria, particularly in the governance category, would require supplementary techniques such as interviews.
DOI
10.1142/S146433321950008X
Comments
Electronic version of an article published as Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2019. 10.1142/S146433321950008X © Copyright World Scientific Publishing Company https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jeapm
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Pinto, E., Morrison-Saunders, A., Bond, A., Pope, J., & Retief, F. (2019). Distilling and applying criteria for best practice EIA follow-up. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 21(2).
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