Journal: Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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Environ. impact. asses. rev.

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Elsevier

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0195-9255

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  • An exploratory methodological approach to enhancing public health policy in Ghana's mining operations
    Item type: Journal Article
    Proksik, Joschka J.; Brugger, Fritz; Ayanore, Martin A.; et al. (2025)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
    Industrial mining significantly contributes to the economies and public revenues of numerous low- and lower-middle-income nations, with its importance set to grow due to the increasing demand for critical minerals in the energy transition. Concurrently, the negative externalities associated with large-scale mining are set to escalate if not rigorously managed. Among these adverse impacts, the negative effects on public health have long been disregarded in the governance of large-scale mining projects. This study examines the regulatory and policy landscape governing public health within impact assessment practices in large-scale mining operations, highlighting the inadequacy of current regulatory approaches, particularly the limited attention given to public health within Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Focusing on mineral-rich Ghana, we investigate stakeholder perceptions regarding the adequacy of current EIA policy frameworks in safeguarding public health. Applying Q-methodology, we explore diverse perspectives on policy action, priorities, and the involvement of relevant actors in shaping progressive public health regulation within the mining sector. Our findings offer valuable insights into the policy space and potential strategies for strengthening public health in mining activities, with implications for EIA environmental management practices. Moreover, our findings suggest that the divergent policy preferences uncovered in Ghana highlight key obstacles to greater public health consideration through the inclusion of Health Impacts Assessment (HIA), especially in contexts with limited administrative resources. Our study reveals how roles, responsibilities, and authority over impact assessment and mine licensing processes can significantly shape stakeholder policy preferences toward HIA.
  • Assessing Internet energy intensity
    Item type: Journal Article
    Coroama, Vlad C.; Hilty, Lorenz M. (2014)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • Effects of environmental and nutritional labels on the dietary choices of consumers: Evidence from China
    Item type: Journal Article
    Sun, Xue; Wang, Rui; He, Pan; et al. (2024)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
    Dietary change has great potential to deliver food-related environmental benefits and human health advantages. Labeling has been proven effective in dietary behavior change as a “low-hanging fruit” among nudging methods, yet the experimental analysis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is lacking. In this research, a real-world intervention experiment is designed to explore the effects of color-based carbon footprint and calorie content labeling schemes on the sales of dumpling in two Chinese university canteens. The sample for the control phrase and label phrase respectively consisted of 8755 and 9492 records. Overall, fewer consumers choose to dine (−15.25%) when the label interventions were in place to release from ethical dilemma. Detailed analyses show that environmental labeling results in a significant reduction in purchases of dumplings with high carbon footprints, cutting down 20.40 (15.25% of average daily sales, the same as other percentage data) sale units (‘Liang’ in Chinese, one sale unit empirically corresponding to 6 dumplings) and leading to ∼26.90% of total GHG mitigation, while calorie labeling raises the purchase of dumplings with both low and high energy density, raising 59.88 (7.56%) and 48.66 (6.14%) sale units respectively at the day level. Labeling induces effective response demographically heterogeneous, with men more sensitive to calorie labels within the U-shape trend while women more impacted by environmental labels. Also, postgraduates show greater perceptiveness to the intervention compared to undergraduates. Our evaluation of labeling effects suggests a well-designed and population-tailored label highlighting negative information such as immense environmental burdens would offer a promising and feasible chance to navigate consumers' behavior. Our findings provide implications for effective intervention strategy design in China, indicating extensive inspiration for a potential larger-scale dietary structure evolution and promising behavior intervention.
  • Solution spaces for decision-making—a sustainability assessment tool for city-regions
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wiek, Arnim; Binder, Claudia (2005)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
    The sound development of city-regions presents a major planning challenge, as these regions are and will be the living spaces for the majority of the population. Therefore, a key question is how city-regions can be managed so that they develop in a sustainable way. Although Environmental Impact Assessment, Integrated Assessment, and other currently used approaches provide significant inputs for managing transition-processes towards sustainability, they must be extended to respond to three major deficiencies, which are (i) using lists of isolated indicators, (ii) not performing a consistency analysis of the targets to be achieved, and (iii) not utilizing the potential of transdisciplinary approaches. The authors present an approach to constructing Sustainability Solution Spaces for Decision-Making (SSP). This approach fulfils the systemic, normative, and procedural requirements of an appropriate sustainability assessment as elaborated in the technical literature. It provides a consistent set of targets considering the systemic relations among the indicators representing the city-region. This gives the decision-makers a concise guideline for sustainable decisions and makes them aware of the synergistic and contradictory effects of their decisions. The modular tool is first depicted as a general procedure and later differentiated into two transdisciplinary approaches, a participatory and an expert approach.
  • Baseline effects on carbon footprints of biofuels
    Item type: Journal Article
    Johnson, Eric; Tschudi, Daniel (2012)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • Key drivers of the e-waste recycling system
    Item type: Journal Article
    Streicher-Porte, Martin; Widmer, Rolf; Jain, Amit; et al. (2005)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • Reducing the environmental impact of road and rail vehicles
    Item type: Journal Article
    Mayer, R. M.; Poulikakos, L.D.; Lees, A. R.; et al. (2012)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • Health impact assessment and health equity in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
    Item type: Review Article
    Leuenberger, Andrea; Farnham, Andrea; Azevedo, Sophie; et al. (2019)
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review
    Background Natural resource extraction projects can have positive but also negative effects on the health of affected communities, governed by demographic, economic, environmental, physical and social changes. Negative effects often prevail and these might widen existing health inequities. Health impact assessment (HIA) is a decision-support tool that aims at maximizing benefits and minimizing negative impacts on people's health. A core value of HIA is equity; yet, little is known about health equity in the frame of HIA, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Methodology We conducted a scoping review to determine whether and to what extent HIA in sub-Saharan Africa addresses health equity. We included peer-reviewed publications and guidelines pertaining to HIA, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and social impact assessment (SIA). Health equity was investigated by identifying (i) how health considerations were addressed and (ii) whether health was stratified by subgroups of the community. Results Out of 1′640 raw hits, we identified 62 articles (16 HIA, 36 EIA, one SIA and nine integrated assessments), 32 of which specifically addressed health. While 20 articles focused on a specific health topic, 12 articles used a more comprehensive approach to address health. In 15 articles there were specific subgroup analyses (e.g. mothers, children or marginalized groups) as a measure of health equity. Another 12 papers referred to the community in a more general way (e.g. affected). Without exception, health was an integral part of the nine included guidelines. HIA guidelines addressed health systematically through environmental health areas, risk assessment matrix or key performance indicators. Conclusions We found evidence that previously conducted HIA in sub-Saharan Africa and current guidelines address health equity. However, there is a need to stratify community subgroups more systematically in order to determine health differentials better. Future HIA should consider community heterogeneity in an effort to reduce health inequities by “leaving no one behind”, as suggested by the Sustainable Development Goals.
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