Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Luis Victor Fernandez Velasco

Publications

• Research Article
  The Quality of the Environmental Impact Assessment Process for Public Road Projects: A Case Study in Spain
  Author(s): Eduardo Peris- Mora and Luis Victor Fernandez VelascoEduardo Peris- Mora and Luis Victor Fernandez Velasco
  
  Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) apply criteria to minimize the negative effects of projects on the environment. However, the EIA process has been criticized by European environmental organizations and governments.One common criticism deals with the fact that the responsibility for creating the environmental impact statement (EIS) normally belongs to the project’s promoter; another is the lack of rigor in the criteria for accepting or rejecting these studies. In 1994, the European Commission developed a procedure to evaluate the quality of such studies. In the present research, our objectives were to assess the quality of a sample of EIS documents created from 1990 to 2002 by the Spanish Autonomous Administration of Valencia and to assess the efficiency of the European Review Checklist method. We statistically evaluated 40 EISs, then undertook a qualitative appraisal of t.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-784X.1000193

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