Practitioners’ perceptions of the Brazilian environmental impact assessment system: results from a survey
| Autor: | Luis Enrique Sánchez, Ana Paula Alves Dibo, Juliana Siqueira-Gay, Carla Grigoletto Duarte |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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business.industry
Impact assessment media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development POLÍTICA AMBIENTAL 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Legislation 02 engineering and technology Positive perception 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public relations 01 natural sciences Current practice Perception Environmental impact assessment Quality (business) Environmental policy business Psychology Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| ISSN: | 1471-5465 1461-5517 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14615517.2017.1322813 |
| Popis: | Practitioners play a key role in implementing environmental impact assessment (EIA) policies. Gauging their perception can help in designing legislation or regulation reforms and signals what needs more attention in research. The Brazilian EIA system is under review by lawmakers, but there is scant information about the views of professionals. A survey was conducted to inquiry on practitioners’ perception of the Brazilian EIA system regarding: (1) quality of the process, (2) quality of the environmental impact studies (EIS), and (3) proposals to change the system. Four hundred and fourteen professionals participated in an online survey responding to 44 questions. Results show positive perceptions about some aspects of current practice, but there is a clear predominance of negative appraisal both about the quality of the process and the quality of EIS. The poorest practices are the consideration of cumulative impacts and determination of impact significance. As for proposals to change the system, r... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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