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Environmental impact assessment: Myth or reality? Lessons from Spain

Autor
Pardo M.
Título de serie
Environmental Impact Assessment Review | Vol. 17(2); 123 - 142; 20 p.
Fecha
1997
Fuente
IUCN (ID: ANA-060812)
Editor | Lugar de publicación
Elsevier Science Inc. | New York, NY, USA
Idioma
Inglés
País/Territorio
España
Materia
Medio ambiente gen.
Palabra clave
EIA
Resumen

This paper analyses the situation of 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 EIA studies of different type of projects. The results of this research show that (1) EIAs have been very general in their comtent, 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 concludess with a set of recommendations.