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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Environmental impact assessment"”.
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Environmental impact assessment in Taiwan
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Flexible Food Packaging
“The impacts of environmental pollution are potentially irreversible and have become a major concern for society. Faced with this reality, the purpose of this research is to identify which type of flexible packaging material used in the food industry creates less pollution. The Leopold Matrix was …
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Integrating environmental impact assessment into product design
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Environmental impact assessment in Ethiopia: laws and practices
… means that decision-makers use to consider the impact of their actions on the environment. As a tool for decision-making, EIA emerged in 1969 in the US and it has now obtained a wide acceptance around the world. Accordingly, most countries have provided for some form of EIA to ensure …
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Environmental impact assessment under NEPA: a redundant mechanism?
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) declared the Federal government's commitment to comprehensive environmental protection. The cutting-edge of NEPA is its requirement for including an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for all major Federal actions significantly affecting the …
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Environmental impact assessment and the quality of local design.
Thesis. 1978. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Public participation in environmental impact assessment in Puerto Rico
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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An Environmental Impact Assessment of 3D Printed Medical Devices
… To that end, this thesis assesses the environmental impact of additive technologies at one of Stryker’s manufacturing facilities in the form of a numerical metric to give leadership a new way to incorporate environmental consequences into their decision-making. By mapping out the …
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The status of ecology in the British environmental impact assessment process
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a process by which the potential environmental impacts of a proposed development are assessed. An assessment of the ecological impacts of a development on ecosystems, habitats and species is required under the 1985 European Directive 85/337/EEC, which is …
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An environmental impact assessment of urbanisation in the Erongo Region, Namibia
The assessment conducted in this dissertation was shaped by the intended formulation of an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan (ICZMP), as proposed by the Danish Co-operation for Environment and Development. An ICZMP provides an integrated and holistic approach to planning, in which the various …
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Environmental impact assessment of commercial aircraft operations in the United States
The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the environmental trade-offs inherent in multi-criteria objectives of an integrated environmental policy. A probabilistic multi-attribute impact pathway analysis (MAIPA) was formulated to assess the environmental damages of US commercial aircraft …
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Methodological Guide for Cumulative Impacts Management Through Environmental Impact Assessment in Peru
The Environmental Impact Assessment has been a great tool to prevent environmental damage, however the individual scope of this tool limits the analysis of the interaction of the impacts with the impacts of neighboring projects, to generate cumulative impacts. The objective of this research is to …
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Evaluation of the performance, quality, and effectiveness of environmental impact assessment in Namibia
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has become an important environmental management tool used in planning and decision-making since the 1970s. However, its effectiveness has come under scrutiny in developing countries, where systems are often copied from developed countries with minimal …
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A Review of Environmental Impact Assessment and the Influence upon the Minerals Industry
Over the years Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has evolved to meet an increasing need for a comprehensive system of environmental protection whereby development in general and minerals extraction in particular, must be balanced with environmental considerations.<br/><br/>The history of …
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Environmental impact assessment in South Africa - what difference can a sustainability assessment make?
… equity aspect of sustainability. The assessment of the ecological aspect of sustainability is a snap-shot image based on the situation prevailing when the assessment is undertaken whilst having to take the dynamic nature of sustainability into account. Assessing the sustainability of a …
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Sustainability Discourses on Controversial Infrastructure Development: Investigating their Mobilization in Environmental Impact Assessment
… the mobilization of sustainability discourses in environmental impact assessment (EIA) by looking at two cases, in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands. EIA is a procedure used for predicting the sustainability impacts associated with project development. It is reasoned that, where adverse …
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and South African courts' interpretation of the legislative framework
The debate on the issue of the submission of environmental impact assessments (EIAs) goes back to the 1970s. The value of EIAs was first recognised by the South African government in 1976 with a report by the-then South African Council for the Environment entitled Identification and Evaluation of …
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Environmental planning in Indonesia : the linkage between spatial plan and environmental impact assessment
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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The Efficacy and Challenges of Environmental Impact Assessment in Tanzania. The Law and Practice.
… focuses on the efficacy and challenges of environmental impact assessment (EIA). The scope of this dissertation covers Tanzania whereby Environmental Management Act, 2004 and Environmental Impact Assessment and Audit Regulation, 2005 is applied. The dissertation critically analyse the …
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