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Trends in EIA effectiveness research

In: Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment

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  • John J. Loomis
  • Mauricio Dziedzic

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Evaluation of EIA effectiveness is an established area of the literature. It has expanded beyond reviewing purely procedural aspects of EIA to include other dimensions that concern its impact on decision-making, cost-effectiveness, its contribution to sustainable development, democratic decision-making, and more. Through a literature review, this chapter briefly reviews the effectiveness literature before analyzing the future directions in understanding this plural and multi-dimensional concept. More recent literature (previous ten years) shows new approaches to evaluating EIA. This includes the degree to which it acts as a governance tool, transforms values, and provides legitimacy to project decision-making. These trends and new avenues in EIA research point to the departure from its positivist origins of EIA towards a communicative theoretical foundation, where EIA's political nature is explicitly recognized and its ability for transformative change and legitimacy increasingly garner greater attention.

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  • John J. Loomis & Mauricio Dziedzic, 2022. "Trends in EIA effectiveness research," Chapters, in: Alberto Fonseca (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, chapter 17, pages 303-318, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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