Environmental Evaluation of Development Proposals Case Study: the Adani Project ~ A Need for Review?
3. Environmental Impact Statements & Scientific Uncertainty: A Decision-Making Aid or the Decision End Point?
1. Any
review and reform of the environmental evaluation and approval process of major
development projects, like the
Adani project, needs to be directed
at a primary source of the problems created by scientific uncertainty in the
EIS.
2. Problems that not only caused conflict, litigation and inordinate delays for environmental evaluation and approval – but also confounded the integrity of the decision-making process.
3. It would be prudent for Government to be aware of the US experience: That “no other strategy offers a more telling acknowledgement of the legitimacy of local concerns” than where those who have to live with a decision that has potential adverse environmental impacts, know they can trust the monitoring and management plans.
2. Problems that not only caused conflict, litigation and inordinate delays for environmental evaluation and approval – but also confounded the integrity of the decision-making process.
3. It would be prudent for Government to be aware of the US experience: That “no other strategy offers a more telling acknowledgement of the legitimacy of local concerns” than where those who have to live with a decision that has potential adverse environmental impacts, know they can trust the monitoring and management plans.
Chapter 6 (Environmental Impact Assessment) of the author’s book Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts: Power and Negotiation a comparative review of the legal and scientific approaches to EIA in Australia, the UK and the USA; and links this knowledge to achieving outcomes based on conflict resolution principles.
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