EVALUACIÓN DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL Y OBRAS DE INGENIERÍA CIVIL

1. Background
1.1. The Sustainable Development concept
1.2. EU Legislation: The EIA Directive
2. Purpose and aims of the EIA
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Nature and scope of environmental issues and impacts
2.3. Principles of EIA administration and practice
2.4. Key elements of the EIA process
2.5. Costs and benefits of EIA
3. Law, policy and institutional arrangements
3.1. Introduction
3.2. About EIA systems
3.3. EIA policy and legislation
3.4. EIA requirements of international organizations
3.5. Principles for a functional EIA system
4. Public involvement
4.1. Introduction
4.2. What is public involvement?
4.3. Stakeholders involved
4.4. Principles of public involvement
4.5. Scope of involvement
4.6. Planning of a public involvement programme
4.7. Public involvement techniques
4.8. Arguments for and against public involvement
5. Screening
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Screening procedure
5.3. Project lists for screening
5.4. Preliminary EIA
5.5. Other types of screening
5.6. Criteria for the determination of the need for EIA
6. Scoping
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Purpose of scoping
6.3. Approaches to scoping
6.4. Scoping methods
6.5. Alternatives and tiering
6.6. EIA terms of reference
7. Impact analysis
7.1.Impact identification
7.2. Impact analysis and prediction
7.3. Characteristics of environmental impacts
7.4. Social impact assessment
7.5. Evaluation of impact significance
7.6. Significance criteria
8. Mitigation and impact management
8.1. Link between EIA process and mitigation
8.2. Main elements of mitigation
8.3. Approaches to mitigation
8.4. Environmental management plan and mitigation measures
9. EIA reporting
9.1. What is an EIA report
9.2. Typical elements of an EIA report
9.3. Guidelines for effective EIA report preparation and production
10. Review of EIA quality
10.1. Role and purpose of the EIA review process
10.2. Need for a systematic approach
10.3. Procedural aspects
10.4. Carrying out the review
10.5. Procedures for evaluating EIA reports
11. Decision-making
11.1. role of the decision-makers
11.2. EIA as part of the decision-making process
11.3. Responsibility of the decision-makers