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Environmental Impact Assessment

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is defined by Munn (1979) as the need to identify and predict the impact on the environment and on man’s health and well-being of legislative proposals, policies, programs, projects, and operational procedures, and to interpret and communicate information about the impact.

“Distances and locations are the important determinants of many choices that economists study. Economists often rely on information about these variables that are self-reported by respondents in surveys, although information can sometimes be obtained from secondary sources. Self-reports are typically used for information on distances from households or community centers to roads, markets, schools, clinics, and other public services. There is growing evidence that self-reported distances are measured with errors and that these errors are correlated with the outcomes of interest. In contrast to self-reports, global positioning systems (GPS) can determine locations to within 15 m in most cases. The falling cost of GNSS receivers makes it increasingly feasible for field surveys to use GNSS to more accurately measure locations and distances.”

J. Gibson and D. MacKenzie (2007)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See, e.g., http://www.water.wa.gov.au/sites/gss/ggs.html

  2. 2.

    Environmental Protection Authority.

  3. 3.

    Environmental water requirement.

  4. 4.

    Environmental impact statements (EIA).

  5. 5.

    Environmental protection statement.

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  1. Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

    Joseph L. Awange

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Joseph L. Awange

  3. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Joseph L. Awange

  4. School of Environment, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya

    Joseph L. Awange

  5. Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi, Harry Thuku Way, Nairobi, 30197, Kenya

    John B. Kyalo Kiema

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Awange, J.L., Kyalo Kiema, J.B. (2013). Environmental Impact Assessment. In: Environmental Geoinformatics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34085-7_28

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