Journal of Natural Environment

Evaluation of environmental impact assessment statement of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 1MSc Gradute, Department of Environment

2 Associate Professor, Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran

Abstract

Development impact assessments before decision making and projects implementing and development plan, leads to identification, prediction, reduction or offset the negative effects of the projects. Quality of impact assessment reports can assist to make a better decision about environmental issues and impact assessment effectiveness. For review of the reports on European countries is used the "Lee N & Colley" method .This method has four level or general sections which each of the sections is divided to some categories and subcategories. In this article "Lee N & Colley" method has been used for reports assessment. In Iran, to evaluation the quality of impact assessment reports has been considered six sections. In this research, 50 reports from different provinces and various projects including linear and polygonal were evaluated by experts. The results showed that quality of 76% from assessments reports was favorable and satisfactory (very good, good, and fair). Description of Project had the highest percentage of satisfaction about 84 %. Monitoring of the environment and management had the lowest quality and satisfaction. Therefore with assessment of different parts of impact assessments reports, you can recognize their strengths and weaknesses and in the future In the future, impact assessments carried out more carefully and effectively.

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Journal of Natural Environment
Volume 70, Issue 2
June 2017
Pages 337-349