The evaluation of environmental impact in Spain: practical outcome

Authors

  • Gabriel Escobar Gómez

Abstract

The paper makes a validity analysis of Environmental Impact Assessement (EIA) when used as a means of bettering the environmental aspect of projects. The author feels that the arbitrariness behind the drawing up of the EIA as they are invalidates them as a useful way of achieving this goal. A study is made of 67 Pleas of Environmental Impact in which discrimination against private and in favour of public projects, a host of infractions of standing regulations, the special consequences of the existence of a multiplicity of environmental agencies with differing criteria, the almost null participation of the general public are observed among the results of the legislation at present in force. The paper finishes, after first warning against the dangers of considering the EIA as a territorial administrative instrument, by arguing for a system that would include environmental considerations as part and parcel of the design process rather than a further, outside consideration during the conception of projects.

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Published

1994-12-21

How to Cite

Escobar Gómez, G. (1994). The evaluation of environmental impact in Spain: practical outcome. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (102), 585–595. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/83973

Issue

Vol. II, núm. 102 (1994)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 1994 Gabriel Escobar Gómez

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