环境工程英语 Part 6 Environmental Impact Assessment 教学教材.pptVIP

Part 6 Environmental Impact Assessment After this part: the students should be able to understand; -background to EIA -goal and objetcives EIA; -key elements of the EIA process; -role of public participation; -stages that follow EIA; -the strengths and limitations of EIA -one case study of EIA for air quality I background information: 1.1 Definition: Environment Impact Assessment or EIA can be defined as the study to predict the effect of a proposed activity/project on the environment. A decision making tool, EIA compares various alternatives for a project and seeks to identify the one which represents the best combination of economic and environmental costs and benefits.  1.2 Goal and Objective of EIA:The goal is to prevent environmental damage or degradation caused by human activities The objective is to determine the potential environmental, social and health effects of a proposed development projects 1.3 History of EIA -1950s , growing environmental awareness-public demanding for environmental factors in the decision-making process -Technical Feasibility Studies and Cost Benefits Analysis(CBA) developed based on monetary terms related to resources costs, up to 1960s, CBA for London airport and Aswan dam -In 1960s -growing frequency of environmental nuisance since -growing pressure from environmental movements Water pollution 1.4 a listing of impact indicators as well as the methods used to determine their scales of magnitude and relative weights 1.5 a predication of the magnitudes of the impact indicators and of the total impacts , for the impacts and alternatives 1.6 recommendations for accpetance, remidial action, acceptance of one or more of the alternatives, or rejection 1.7 reommendations for inspection procedures III stages of EIA(see the following figure) 4 IV Public participation V case study of EIA VI Please indicate the following statement is true or false 1 San Men Gorges is the failure example for dam engineering 2 Development proj