scholarly journals Road environmental impact assessment in the conceptual design stage - example of the Kragujevac - Mrčajevci motorway

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Sanja Fric ◽  
Vladan Ilić ◽  
Miloš Lukić ◽  
Dejan Gavran ◽  
Filip Trpčevski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
The Road ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Impact Assessment Methodology ◽  
State Of The Environment

The construction of new motorway routes leaves lasting consequences on the nature and the living world along the corridor through which the adopted motorway alignment extends. Therefore, it is necessary that in the initial stage of the project (Conceptual design) the analysis of all potential impacts of the motorway on the environment be done very rigorously. The subject of this paper is the road environmental impact assessment methodology implemented in conceptual design of Kragujevac - Mrčajevci motorway. Within the motorway environmental assessment for different variants of motorway corridor, traffic noise, air pollution, rainwater and groundwater pollution, soil pollution, climate change, occupation of surfaces for expropriation and other relevant impacts were investigated. In the paper the methodology used to assess the initial ("zero") state of the environment in the studied area was briefly described. In addition, the methodology based on which the project alternatives were compared regarding environmental requirements was also presented, and finally, what was the conclusion of such a comparison.

scholarly journals An Environmental Impact Assessment of the underground operations at the designed Petrikov potash mine, Belarus

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Barbikov ◽  
Anatoly M. Grechko ◽  
Vladimir V. Savchenko ◽  
Anzhelika E. Zlebova ◽  
Dmitry M. Kurlovich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Underground Mining ◽  
Surface Subsidence ◽  
Groundwater Depth ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Potash Salt

AbstractThe Petrikov deposits of potash salt is situated in Gomel oblast of Belarus in the south-east of Pripyat Trough, and have Northern and Southern prospects. Underground mining of potash salt will start at the Northern prospect with an area of 166 km2. It is expected that mining will last for between 50-80 years. An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was carried out at the design stage of the Petrikov mining and processing plant. The standard EIA procedure included a set of investigations, including assessments of surface subsidence, changes in groundwater level, changes in productivity of forest phytocoenoses and crops, and assessment of groundwater pollution due to production of potash fertilizers. Maximum values of possible surface subsidence (up to 2.3 m) will occur within the area, where the surface will be affected by the mining of potash layers 1, 2, and 3 of the productive horizon IV-Π, using a long-pillar mining system. Surface subsidence will influence surface topography, surface and groundwater, landscape structure and land resources. The result of surface subsidence will lead to inundation and swamping of land, as well as to an increase in the areas affected by annual floods in the valleys of the Pripyat and Bobrik rivers. Surface subsidence will affect the whole area of the prospect within the limits of planned mining fields, except the areas above safety pillars. In the result of raised groundwater levels the area with groundwater depth of more than 2 m will decrease from 69.1% to 17.8%, and the areas with groundwater depth from 3 to 5 m will disappear. The area with a groundwater depth less than 1 m will increase from 0.1% to 34.0%. In 19.5% of the area the groundwater level will raise above the surface level (the area of inundation). Surface subsidence and change in groundwater level will cause certain decreases in yields of timber and crops, and 2564 ha of forest, 68 ha of arable land and 324 ha of meadows will be inundated. In order to prevent inundation within certain areas protective engineering facilities have been designed, and an arrangement of groundwater monitoring wells has been proposed.

scholarly journals Environmental Impact Assessment of Ala-River Akure, Ondo State Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-549
Author(s):  
Victor Ayodele Ijaware
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
The People ◽  
Assessment And Monitoring ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
The Impact

With an increase in urbanization, there is need for a constant assessment and monitoring of environmental features. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been used in this research was to assess the impacts of Ala River in Akure on the environment using Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques. The data collection involved the use of Questionnaires and the design were based on four criteria: socio-cultural, climatic, economic, Health and Safety Impact factors. Using ArcMap, Buffer Analysis was performed around the River to get those features most susceptible to the impact of Ala River and also to guide the expanse where opinion survey was carried out at different locations around the river. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to analyse the data acquired and the Hypothesis tested were used to generate outcome set for each of the criteria’s. From the results of the study, it was discovered that the River has impacts on the Social-Cultural state of the environments (P<0.05), Climate of the environment (P<0.05) and Health and Safety state of the environment including the people around it(P<0.05) but the River does not have major impacts on the Economic factors (P>0.05).The research recommends that additional effort need to be put in place on all fronts if the results acquired from environmental assessment is to be put to good use.

Application of GIS Technique in Environmental Impact Assessment

2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 831-835
Author(s):  
Xu Li ◽  
Zhi Zhen Xu ◽  
Yong Tao Qiu ◽  
Jin Yan Qi ◽  
Shi Chuan Tang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Attribute Data ◽  
Gis Technique ◽  
And Function ◽  
Information Database

The characteristics and function of geographic information system (GIS) technique were summarized and the advantages of GIS application in environmental impact assessment (EIA) were introduced. GIS can provide good function of information technology for EIA, based on its strong ability on processing spatial data and attribute data. The applications of GIS in establishing environmental information database, selecting sites for projects, making environmental thematic map and combining with environmental model to predict environmental impact were introduced. The traffic noise prediction of Beijing Xiwai Street west extension project in EIA report was taken as an example to introduce GIS application in urban road EIA.

Environmental Impact Assessment of Lighting Products

2011 ◽  
Vol 486 ◽  
pp. 171-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Casamayor ◽  
Dai Zhong Su
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Consumer Awareness ◽  
Total Impact

There is a growing demand for products with low environmental impact due to current and upcoming environmental regulations/policies and increased environmental consumer awareness. Thus, integration of tools, methods, techniques for sustainability into design processes is becoming essential to design greener products. This paper presents a novel environmental impact assessment of lighting products’ conducted at the design stage, with the support of Life Cycle Assessment methods and related tools including Software Simapro. Two lighting products are used in the assessment, the results showed that one of the lighting products had less (total) impact on the environment than the other one, the main difference of impact between both products was located at the manufacturing phase, and their transport and use phases have higher impact within the life-cycle of the products.

Mapping Relationships among Design Information for Green Feature

2013 ◽  
Vol 816-817 ◽  
pp. 1239-1242
Author(s):  
Qin Qin Ji ◽  
Fang Yi Li ◽  
Dao Yun Xi ◽  
Xiao Dong Yang ◽  
Qiang Meng
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Design Information ◽  
Standard Mapping ◽  
Mechanical Products

Mostly, mechanical products designers are lack of environment knowledge, and it is difficult to design environmentally friendly products rapidly. In this paper, a model of mapping relationships for green feature is established to extract the environmental impact factors, aiming at realizing green design. On the basis of the conceptual design of mechanical products, the mapping relationships between conventional and green design domains are found out to build the standard mapping relationships system of products. Then, for similar products, the green feature can be got by the system so as to do the environmental impact assessment.

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