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Risk Management in the Environmental Approvals Process
By Alistair Sharp-Paul
In the textbooks, environmental impact assessment—EIA—integrates social, economic and environmental factors into a ‘sustainable’ development proposal. Government professionals assess the proposal and provide advice to the minister, who in turn decides on whether the project proceeds.
The reality is a little untidier: the project development decision lies at the end of a long journey through a collision zone of diverse values and opinions. In fact the EIA process creates—one might almost think by political design—this sandwich,
in which your project is the meat.
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