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Auditing the Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Planning Projects
- Source :
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 43:23-47
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2000.
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Abstract
- This paper presents the results from a post-auditing study-a comparison of the predictions of environmental impacts of projects made in environmental statements prior to developmentwith those that actually occurred upon or after development. The purpose of post-auditing is to provide an analysis of prediction performance in environmental impact assessment and thus to improve future practice by learning from experience. By means of a combination of site visits, interviews and document scrutiny, 865 predictions from 28 UK projects granted planning permission were examined. Of these, 488 (56%) were auditable, of which 383 (79%) were deemed 'accurate' or 'nearly accurate' and 105 (21%) 'inaccurate'. The remaining 377 (44%) predictions were not auditable, the main reasons being lack of data, vague or ambiguous predictions and time dependency.There were only six unpredicted impacts. The study reveals some encouraging findings, but also a number of discouraging ones, which indicate the need to increase both enth...
- Subjects :
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Engineering
Scrutiny
business.industry
Geography, Planning and Development
Environmental resource management
Audit
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Permission
Environmental impact assessment
business
Environmental planning
General Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13600559 and 09640568
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0c582720645b25d9a925bcca58585997
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09640560010757