United States: District Court for the District of Columbia Decision in Sierra Club et al v. Coleman and Tiemann (National Environmental Policy Act; Environmental Impact Assessment of Darien Gap Highway through Panama and Colombia)

1975 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1425-1434
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
District Court ◽  
Sierra Club ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
National Environmental

A SNAPSHOT OF GERMANY'S EIA APPROACH IN LIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES ARCHETYPE

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250022 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHANN KÖPPEL ◽  
GESA GEIßLER ◽  
JENNIFER HELFRICH ◽  
JESSICA REISERT
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
National Environmental

November 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive and the 20th anniversary of its implementation in Germany via the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (EIAA) in 1990. Reflecting back to the original role model for these pieces of legisiation, the 1969 US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) can bring some interesting differences to light. Four decades of experience from the more mature US EIA system may hold some important lessons for Germany's younger EIAA. While an outright comparison is impossible at this present time, this article aims to contribute a comparative perspective to show the current status of the original US model, NEPA, and the differences in development and practice to Germany's younger EIAA.

scholarly journals Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Analysis of the Federal Response in Canada and the United States

1969 ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
Sandra K. McCallum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Federal Response ◽  
Legislative Measures

This article examines the planning tool known as environmental impact assess ment. This tool is decision-making model which attempts to integrate en vironmental considerations into each stage of the planning process together with the traditional concerns of economics and technology in order to identify secon dary and cumulative impacts and to weigh environmental effects. The success of an assessment process depends on the capability of the chosen institutional arrangements to achieve the desired goal. The proposed federal procedure is ex amined and several weaknesses identified. One is the absence of legislative measures to support the process. The United States National Environmental Policy Act provides model. This statute is discussed with view to ascertaining whether like legislation in Canada would produce like result. The conclusion reached is that differences between Parliamentary and Congressional systems suggest that in Canada more appropriate course would be to adopt legislative measures which strengthen and improve the existing functions of government. Such course would better serve the goal of environmental impact assessment than attempts to transplant concepts which are ill fitted and insensitive to the parliamentary system.

scholarly journals International EIA Guidelines and the Nile Basin Countries EIA Experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasha El Gohary
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Nile Basin ◽  
Major Development ◽  
Capacity Data ◽  
Engineering Projects ◽  
National Environmental

The environmental impact assessment (EIA) was first required by the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act, which require environmental impact assessment of all major development projects to determine their potential for adverse effects on the environment. The environmental outlook for the Nile basin remains quite hazy. In the future there will be new environmental challenge stemming from population growth, increasing demands on agriculture, and climate change. This will put a huge burden on the environment. This research initiated to compare the international EIA guidelines in order to enhance the Nile Basin Countries experience to improve its practice in managing the environmental resources. This is due to the fact that Nile Basin Countries experiences face many challenges such as lack of capacity, data, proper guidelines, enforcement, and most importantly awareness of the environment protection sector or its effectiveness. Moreover; it requires reviewing and tools improvements to produce effective environmental management of development and engineering projects. Therefore, provision of detailed guidelines for EIA can help to improve the practice in the management of environmental resources. This paper reviews the EIA legislation in the Nile Basin Countries in comparison with international legislation and guidelines with emphasis on the EIA practice. The paper also intends to present selected international EIA guidelines in a comparative form and this is expected to raise awareness, professional experience of EIA issues, enhance EIA carrying capacity, and lead, ultimately, to improvements in available EIA legislations and guidelines and increase compatibility among them.

Administering Public Participation

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Eckerd ◽  
Roy L. Heidelberg
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Environmental Impact Analysis ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
National Environmental

Participation and administration have long had an uneasy coexistence. On one hand, public participation in decisions that affect citizens is consistent with citizenship and democracy; on the other hand, much of what government does is complex and requires some level of technical understanding to make decisions. In this article, we report on public administrators’ perceptions of public participation and the ways that they understand the participation process. We find that public participation is managed by public administrators; they determine the extent of participation, shape the ways that the participation takes place, and decide whether or not participation is valuable for their work. In some cases, the process is rather democratic, whereas in others, it is not. We find that it is up to administrators to shape the spaces for participation and select the participants in a manner consistent with their understanding of the task to be accomplished. We explore this process in the context of Environmental Impact Analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act.

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