Environmental Impact Assessment: Mith or Reality?. Lessons from Spain

Pardo Buendía, Mercedes

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Environmental Impact Assessment: Mith or Reality?. Lessons from Spain

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Análisis Social	es
dc.affiliation.grupoinv	UC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Sociología del Cambio Climático y Desarrollo Sostenible	es
dc.contributor.author	Pardo Buendía, Mercedes
dc.date.accessioned	2010-04-29T08:04:02Z
dc.date.available	2010-04-29T08:04:02Z
dc.date.issued	1997
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyzes the situation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Spain since its inception in 1988. The analysis covers the general framework (the national and the autonomous communities' laws, the official guidebooks, the agencies' procedure), the Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) issued by the environmental national agency, and a sample of Environmental Impact Studies of different type of projects. The results of this research show that (1) EIAs have been very general in their content, lacking a concrete analysis and without providing substantial solutions to the problems; (2) the socioeconomic analyses are frequently reduced to emphasizing the project's economic benefits while overlooking their potential harm; (3) especially serious is the acceptance of irregular EIA procedure by environmental agencies; and (4) public participation consists mainly in a bureaucratic process exhibiting the document for 30 days at the city hall. This paper concludes with a set of recommendations.	en
dc.description.status	Publicado	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 1997, vol. 17, nº 2, p.123-142.	en
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0195-9255(96)00080-7
dc.identifier.issn	0195-9255
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/7918
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000030310
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Sociología	es
dc.subject.eciencia	Recursos Naturales	es
dc.title	Environmental Impact Assessment: Mith or Reality?. Lessons from Spain	en
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dc.type.review	PeerReviewed
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