Environmental Impact Assessments in Investment Process – Legal and Methodological Aspects

• Autorzy: Harasymiuk Jolanta

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.12911/22998993/112857

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

For a decade or so, environmental impact assessments have been a tool used in investment process in order to evaluate the impact of a planning document or a given construction project on the environment. The legal regulation in force approaches determining the elements making up each assessment selectively. There is also a lack of methodological guidelines pertaining to the rules of assessment making (such guidelines were prepared in reference of e.g. motorways and dual carriage ways or wind power plants). It hinders understanding the aims and the range of environmental impact assessments by society and investors as well as obtaining acceptance for making them by the latter. The article presents the issue of the principal environmental assessments (strategic environmental impact assessment, environmental impact assessment and impact assessment on Natura 2000 sites) in the legal and methodological context. The conducted studies showed that unstable legal system in the field of environmental assessments endangers correctness and punctuality of preparation of an building investment.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

environmental impact assessment; legal regulations; investment process; construction projects

• Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Inżynierii Ekologicznej ; Lublin University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Journal of Ecological Engineering
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: Vol. 20, nr 10
• Strony: 79--87
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 28 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Harasymiuk Jolanta

• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, ul. Heweliusza 4, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland

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