{"id":1727,"date":"2014-06-30T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nvisionfactory.com\/bageso\/?page_id=1727"},"modified":"2014-07-04T02:54:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T02:54:02","slug":"environmental-impact-assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/?page_id=1727","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Impact Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #555555;\">An\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>environmental impact assessment<\/b><\/span>\u00a0(EIA) is an assessment of the possible positive or negative impacts that a proposed project may have on the environment, consisting of the\u00a0environmental, social and economic aspects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that decision makers consider the ensuing environmental impacts when deciding whether or not to proceed with a project. The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) defines an environmental impact assessment as \u201cthe process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the\u00a0biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to major decisions being taken and commitments made.\u201d\u00a0EIAs are unique in that they do not require adherence to a predetermined environmental outcome, but rather they require decision \u00admakers to account for environmental values in their decisions and to justify those decisions in light of detailed environmental studies and public comments on the potential environmental impacts of the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0environmental impact assessment\u00a0(EIA) is an assessment of the possible positive or negative impacts that a proposed project may have on the environment, consisting of the\u00a0environmental, social and economic aspects. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that decision makers consider the ensuing environmental impacts when deciding whether or not to proceed with a project. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1727","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1727\/revisions\/1944"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bagesoplanners.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}