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http://dx.doi.org/10.14249/eia.2021.30.1.49

Survey on the Perception of Stakeholders on the EIA System in Korea  

Kim, Minkyung (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
Lee, Sangdon (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment / v.30, no.1, 2021 , pp. 49-60 More about this Journal
Abstract
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) practitioners play a very pivotal role in establishing EIA policies, and when implementing EIA environmental conflicts can be prevented and resolved by sharing information with stakeholders and coordinating opinions. For this reason, grasping the perceptions of stakeholders including practitioners about the overall system, such as EIA policies and implementation, can be helpful in setting improvement directions and policy directions for EIA. However, there is an insufficient information on the perception and understanding of stakeholders about the EIA system and operation currently in effect in Korea. Therefore, this study diagnoses operational and procedural problems for the EIA system, which is a decision-making tool and a precautionary technique that can minimize adverse effects through the environmental information analysis method, and improvement points and systems of the EIA system in the future. We tried to find a complement of an online survey of 37 questions,responses from 95 responses from stakeholders of EIA were summarized. Stakeholders were aware of the problems of the operation of the current system and the preparation of the evaluation form, and this was reflected. Period and cost of preparation of EIS (49%), the introduction of a new method (26%) and the items of collecting opinions and conflict management (41%), which showed high negative response rates (dissatisfied and very dissatisfied), are considered to be areas that we need to supplement further in the future. As society develops rapidly, the system needs to be supplemented accordingly, and policy improvement efforts are needed for items with high negative responses as a result of the survey.
Keywords
Environmental policy; Environmental Impact Assessment Report; Awareness; System; Questionnaire;
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