The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up

Aleh Cherp

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-31141-6_34

The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up

Aleh Cherp

Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

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The effectiveness of Environmental Assessment (EA) depends on its ability to effect change in the way human activities impact the environment. Unfortunately, environmental professionals are all too familiar with a gap between protecting the environment ‘on paper’ (e.g. in the EIS and related documents) and destroying it ‘on the ground’ where the activities undergoing EA are implemented. To bridge this gap, EIA follow up contains the management component defined as “making decisions and taking appropriate action in response to issues arising from monitoring and evaluation activities” (Morrison-Saunder et al. 2003). Environmental Management Plans (EMPs) and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) are the main management tools which can improve EIA effectiveness during followup. This section considers the rationale for and the experience of using EMPs and EMS in the context of EIA and SEA with particularly attention to the role of standards and thresholds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment
Editors	M Schmidt, J Glasson, L Emmelin, H Helbron
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages	433-446
Number of pages	14
Volume	3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-540-31141-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-31140-9, 978-3-642-06826-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31141-6_34
State	Published - 2008

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Name	Environmental Protection in the European Union

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Cherp, A. (2008). The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up. In M. Schmidt, J. Glasson, L. Emmelin, & H. Helbron (Eds.), Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment (Vol. 3, pp. 433-446). (Environmental Protection in the European Union). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31141-6_34

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Cherp, A 2008, The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up. in M Schmidt, J Glasson, L Emmelin & H Helbron (eds), Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment. vol. 3, Environmental Protection in the European Union, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 433-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31141-6_34

The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up. / Cherp, Aleh.
Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment. ed. / M Schmidt; J Glasson; L Emmelin; H Helbron. Vol. 3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. p. 433-446 (Environmental Protection in the European Union).

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