And also, more importantly, who knows real cases of authorities paying attention to and obeying the results and recommendations of the EIA, and the Environmental Declaration? Effective management and conservation of biodiversity in areas affected by development could be improved if EIA processes are seriously treated by authorities.
EIA is not only politics, but also (and mainly) science; however, politicians are not always prone to pay too much attention to such issues. For example, most politicians must consider that impacts are cumulative, interactive and sinergic, and that the ecological landscapes are limited in their carrying capacity, and that, hence, EIA should include an evaluation of any previous source of impact or disturbance which accumulates and interact with the new ones to reduce and deteriorate biodiversity.
Your question is a fair question. I wonder if someone who has decision-making power to be able to really change things if it is ever asked himself in an honest way. Many times I had the impression that some environmental studies and many of the investigations that are made are not made for the righteous purposes. Could to be objective a study that is carried out on behalf of those who have to build the great engineering works? In the society in which we live can be made really choices in favor of environmental protection or other economic interest prevails over everything?
I was in a position of Project Director of a World Bank funded 75.5 million US $ project called Emergency Northern Recovery Project (ENReP). Based on the experience I have prepared two data sets and up loaded in RG that will be very useful
With regards- Siva
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