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The Department of Environmental Affairs as well as Provincial Environmental departments are responsible for EIA processes and ensuring the timely and accurate execution of EIAs. Environmental Impact Assessments have been compulsory in South Africa since 1997. On 03 July 2006, the new EIA regulations, in terms of NEMA came into effect.
This course focuses on understanding environmental impact assessment (EIA), the relevant South African legal framework, as well as the various application processes for environmental authorisations
In South Africa the environmental laws are very strict to protect the environment of the country that we live in. EIAs are performed on the sites where new developments are scheduled to be undertaken or where there is a planned extension of previously developed projects, to assess the impact that the developments will have on the environment.
I. Home, A South African Developers Guide to Environmental Impact Assessment ( Environmental Impact Management Services (EIMS), Johannesburg, 2000) . Google Scholar, Power, Policy and Sustainability: The Role of Impact Assessment, Proceedings of the 26th annual international IAIA conference ( 2006) . Google Scholar
GRANITE MINING. A legacy of years of plunder, under the condoning eye of the Department of Minerals and Energy. By Andrie Loubser. In response to environmentally damaging granite mining, the Brits Bankenveld Bewarings Forum was launched as a NGO group of concerned residents of the Madibeng (Brits) district in North West Province.
Note that in South Africa there are two main EIA processes that are followed, namely, the Basic Assessment and Scoping and Environmental Impact Reporting processes . Scoping is included in both of these EIA processes, but it is undertaken as the first part of an integrated scoping and assessment procedure during the Basic Assessment process,
SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR THE KEBRAFIELD ROODEPOORT COLLIERY NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT APPLICATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORISATION REF:17/2/3N289 amp; INTEGRATED WATER USE LICENSE APPLICATION Department: Minerals Resources Ref: MP 30/5/1/2/2/479 MR Contact details: 26 Greenwood
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal September 2001 1461 5517/01/030215 8 US IAIA 2001 215 Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, volume 19, number 3, September 2001, pages 215 222, Beech Tree Publishing, 10 Watford Close, Guildford, Surrey GU1 2EP, UK EIA in South Africa A review of provincial environmental impact
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) A product of the Environmental Mainstreaming Initiative () South Africa A relatively small EIA of a proposed road development in Maputaland, South Africa was conducted in 1999 for the South African Roads Agency, Department of Transport. The road formed a key
Site under construction A Guide to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is a South Africanbased, nongovernmental, nonprofit conservation organisation founded in 1973. Its vision is of individual and collective environmental responsibility and bestows a duty of care on all as custodians of our natural wealth in the subcontinent. EWT []
AJEAMRAGEE Volume 10 March 2005 p5065 ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) PRACTICE IN THE LIMPOPO PROVINCE SOUTH AFRICA Luke A Sandham1, M Victor Siphugu2 and Thivhulawi R
The EIA is South Africas key regulatory instrument to mitigate and/or manage the impacts of new developments and activities that are considered to potentially impact on the right to an environment that is not harmful to health and wellbeing. It is considered to be one of the processes that actively promotes or ensures sustainable development. The EIA process is outlined in the Environmental Impact
Environmental Impact Assessment South Africa. Southwest Environmental limited present summarised details of a project in South Africa where an Environmental Impact Assessment was carried out for a Coal Fired Power Station in South Africa (North West). Background . South Africa has the most EIAs carried out on a wide range of project types
This report is on the Environmental Impact Assessment Rectification Process conducted by Environmental Resource Management (ERM) on behalf of Shell Marketing (Pty.) Ltd. for Shell''s fuel storage installations within the province of Gauteng, South Africa.
The Cost of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in South Africa 53 International Perspectives The difculties in dening what is meant by EIA cost have been clearly highlighted in the international literature (Glasson et al., 2001; Wood, 2003). However, notwithstanding these difculties some progress has been made to conceptualise
Under Graduate Degree: Semester module: NQF level: 7: Credits: 12: Module presented in English: Module presented online: Purpose: Overview of environmental assessment; South African case studies; approaches to and a framework for impact assessment; the role of legislation, stakeholders and interest groups; procedures and techniques for impact assessment; application in terms of practical
Environmental Impact Assessment and Management Plan CONTENTS Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and southern Angola. Namibia currently has no cement plant since the old, outdated plant at Otjiwarongo closed down in the late 1990s. In fact there is no cement plant within approximately 1200km of
(2011). Performance of environmental impact assessment (EIA) screening in South Africa: a comparative analysis between the 1997 and 2006 EIA regimes. South African Geographical Journal: Vol. 93, No. 2, pp. 154171.
Between September 1997 and March 2006, 43,423 environmental impact assessment (EIA) applications were submitted in South Africa. This exceptionally high number reflects a particular weakness in the ability of the EIA system to effectively screen EIA applications. The 2006 EIA Regulations intended to reduce the number of EIA applications by 20%.
In South Africa, the issue of climate change is addressed by the environmental management tools of integrated environmental management (IEM) and environmental impact assessment (EIA), as prescribed by the National Environmental Management Act No. 107 of 1998 (NEMA).
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