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Challenges of EIA: EIA in Environmentally Sound Sustainable Development (환경영향평가의 도전: 환경적으로 건전한 지속가능발전에서의 환경영향평가)

  • Chung, Yong
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.229-239
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    • 2007
  • 세계적으로 환경적으로 건전한 지속가능한 발전을 위한 수단인 환경영향평가는 지역과 국가의 경제사회적 특성과 어울려서 발전하고 있다. 특히 한국에서는 개발과 그로 인한 환경오염을 사전에 저감시키기 위한 수단으로, 환경부, 지속가능발전위원회를 중심으로 법개정, 새로운 제도와 기법의 도입을 지속적으로 추진하고 있다. 환경영향평가는 생태영향평가, 사회영향평가, 누적영향평가, 전략환경평가, 환경위해성평가를 통합하는 방향으로 진행되고 있으며, 한 국가의 문제뿐 아니라 국경간의 문제에 직면하고 있다. 환경영향평가는 사업뿐 아니라 정책을 포함하는, 국가의 공간계획과 자원관리를 환경영향평가 과정에 통합하여야 할 것이다.

Technical Improvement of Traffic Noise Environmental Impact Assessment I (도로교통소음 환경영향평가 기법 개선 연구 I)

  • Park, Young-Min;Choi, Jin-Kwon;Chang, Seo-Il
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.55-58
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    • 2005
  • This study was Performed to grasp of the problem and improvement in traffic noise environmental impact assessment(EIA). National institute of environmental research(NIER) traffic noise prediction model is in general use in internal EIA. In this study, NIER noise prediction model need to improve in that the predicted results lower than the measured results. The other predict model(KLC KEI) is more accurate. Also the volume and speed of traffic is need to standardize in traffic noise prediction.

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A Study on Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for Marine Environments in Harbor Construction Projects (항만건설사업의 해양환경 환경영향평가 가이드라인 개발 연구)

  • Maeng, Junho;Kim, Taeyun;Lee, Haemi
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.141-160
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    • 2022
  • The harbor construction projects can lead to various marine environmental problems including habitat degradation and loss, marine water pollution, change of flow patterns, erosion, scour, sedimentation, and so on. The EIA is a measure to prevent various environmental problems in advance from examining and minimizing the environmental impacts before the proposed developments are implemented. In addition, institutions reviewing EIA reports have made efforts to conduct scientific and standardized EIA by applying EIA guidelines for each project. This study aims to create a EIA guideline focusing on the harbor construction projects. Based on the review comments of the harbor construction EIA reports for the past 13 years (2009-2021) and the EIA guidelines of different types of projects, we identified the marine environmental problems and provided the appropriate guideline. This guideline summarizes and presents the contents which must be reviewed in the baseline condition survey, impact assessment, mitigation, and post-environmental impact investigation in the fields of marine fauna and flora, marine physics, and marine water and sediment quality. In the case of a baseline condition survey of marine fauna and flora, a method for selecting survey points considering the characteristics of sea area and project was presented. When estimating the impact of marine fauna and flora, we presented methods for predicting the impact on them due to the spread of suspended sediments and the damage to benthic habitats due to dredging and reclamation. In consideration of the characteristics of the sea area, we divided the survey items of the marine physics into essential items and supplementary items. In predicting the impact of marine physics, various methods for major issues such as seawater circulation, suspended sediment and bottom sediment transport, water temperature and salinity diffusion, seawater exchange, wave transformation, harbor tranquility, and shoreline change were presented. The research results will contribute to protect the marine environment by inducing more systematic and scientific surveys, impact assessments, and mitigation in the EIA process.

The Analysis of Assessment Factors for Preliminary Feasibility Study of Dam Project in Korea (국책사업 예비타당성조사 평가항목별 중요도 분석 - 댐 개발사업을 중심으로 -)

  • Koo, Jakon;Lee, Muchoon
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.307-314
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    • 2004
  • Among large developmental projects, those of the government and public institutions with the total budget of more than 50billion wons can be executed only when the feasibility of the project has been testified through the procedure of preliminary feasibility study. Multi-purpose dams are public structures that can supply water, produce electricity, and control flood, they belong to large national projects that require legal evaluation procedures such as preliminary feasibility study and environmental impact assessment(EIA). The index that should be considered to be important in dam plan is the migration of residents in submerged district. The importance in the preliminary feasibility study is 4.93 points(98.6 in the scale of 100 at maximum). Among the 12 assessment elements of the policy and economy in the preliminary feasibility study, the element of environment assessment is turned out to be 4.68 points in the assessment importance (93.5 in the scale of 100 at maximum), which is the second in the total ranking and the first in the field of policy, indicating that the element is very important in dam construction planning.

Current Situation and Problems in Applying Groundwater Flow Models to EIAs in Korea (지하수환경영향예측을 위한 지하수모델의 적용현황 및 문제점: 환경영향평가서와 먹는샘물환경영향조사서를 중심으로)

  • 김강주
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Groundwater Environment
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.66-75
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    • 1999
  • This work was initiated to investigate current situation and problems in applying groundwater-related models for various kinds of environmental impact assessment in Korea. and therefore. to enhance appropriate application in the future. This study was carried out with 544 and 16 documents of EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment. Law of Environmental Impact Assessment) and Mineral-Water EIA (“the environmental impact investigation for mineral water developments”; Law of Drinking Water Management). respectively. It was revealed that there were considerably many cases which may cause serious impacts on subsurface environments in EIA. However. none applied groundwater models. Generally, the influences on subsurface system were underestimated or even ignored in EIA. For Mineral-Water EIA. groundwater models wert applied. in general. But. numerous and serious problems were noted: limited number of calibration parameters and parameter types. setting boundary conditions without adequate bases. recharge rates several times higher than precipitation rates. numerically unstable results. etc. Such kinds of misusages seem to be caused by modelers larking in professional knowledges. To solve the problems revealed from this study. more systematic re-education programs are suggested.

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Study on the Interrelationship among the Environmental Factors in Environmental Impact Assessment (환경영향평가에서의 평가항목간 상호연계성에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Myung-Hwi;Lee, Mu-Choon
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.49-59
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    • 1999
  • In this study, we individualize the clauses to sort out the troubled ones, draw up a interrelation model in order to visually organize the relations, and finally, suggest the desirable application idea. The interrelation model suggested in this study has been made based on the matrix method. On this matrix, we arranged the environmental factors on horizontal and vertical axis, and when we describe the relation of each factors, we set the horizontal axis as the base and divided the content into three grades : Fine, Medium, and Poor. In addition to that, we expressed those three grades into numerical value like 3 points for Level Fine, 2 points for Level Medium, and 1 point for Level Poor and then, we converted this numerical values into index numbers. We could classify the index numbers such as AS, PS, Q-index, P-index. AS is an index numerically shows the degree of giving environmental effect, PS is an index numerically shows the degree of receiving environmental effect, Q-index is an index shows the aggravate degree, and P-index shows the relation degree. The Q/P-index with large numbers has considerable effect on the environmental system, while the small numbered Q/P-index barely effect on the environmental system. Moreover, we classified the environmental factors into 5 levels(I~V) according to the relations between the Q-index and P-index. Level I is less affected by the environment and has more giving effect, while Level V is more sensitively affected by the environment and has more receiving effect, which we considered important. Therefore, we could come up with the result that if we consider the each level of factors when we evaluate the EIA, the result would be far more accurate and reliable since it contains mutual relation aspect of EIA. The suggested interrelation model in this thesis is presentable as one of those scoping system. We highly believe the need of scoping system in EIA and suggest the interrelation model as the alternative idea for scoping system.

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Integration of the Feasibility Assessment Procedure and EIA of the Big Public Investment Project : In the Case of the Saemangeum Reclamation Project (대규모 공공투자사업의 경제적 타당성 평가와 환경영향평가 통압 방안 - 새만금 간척사업을 사례로 -)

  • Choi, Mi-Hee
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.93-107
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    • 2002
  • The choice of big public investment project needs an appropriate feasibility analysis before it is implemented, bemuse a rot wisely chosen one would bring about big and longrun societal costs. But the feasibility analysis for the big public investment project in Korea has been done without linking the economic benefits and environmental damages. Consequently social conflicts arose frequently during and after project implementation, owing to such concerns asincreasing costs and serious ecological damages. The recent social conflict over the Saemangeum Project is a typical case. This reclamation project began in 1991 and finished 60% of the whole process in 1999, when its feasibility was again assessed under the public pressure by the joint assessment team consisting of both citizen's and government's professionals. Even the assessment report by this joint team could not show the convincing results owing to the improper assessment procedure and failure to set proper feasibility criteria. This paper pointed out the limitations of our current procedure of feasibility assessment and identified the concrete problems that atosee during the recent reassessment process of the Saemangeum reclamation project by the joint team. In order to improve the current problem-ridden practices, it is concluded by the policy recommendation for establishing a right feasibility assessment procedure for the public investment projects.

Study on EIA of Aircraft Noise I : Noise Assessment Construction Plan (항공기소음의 환경영향평가에 관한 연구 I : 소음평가 구축방안)

  • Sun, Hyo-Sung;Park, Young-Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.289-291
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    • 2006
  • The noise pollution caused by air traffic is one of the popular environmental issues, which consistently gives rise to public discussion today especially among local residents near airports. But, because there is a growing tendency that large residential areas are constructed in flatlands around airports due to a high population density, the importance of the EIA in connection with aircraft noise is increased to take precautionary measures. Therefore, this paper examines the present status and the improvement plan of aircraft noise impact assessment.

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Effectiveness Enhancement Measures for Local Government Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) by Improving Small-scale EIA Institution (소규모 환경영향평가 제도개선을 통한 지자체 환경영향평가 효과성 증진방안)

  • Jongook Lee;Kyeong Doo Cho
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 2023
  • In the Republic of Korea, the target project scope of the small-scale EIA is stipulated as the plan area above around 5,000~60,000m2 depending on a type of project and classification of land use. Whereas, the lower limit of the corresponding local government EIA project is generally located above the small-scale EIA's limits, and overlapping ranges exist. This situation has been enlarged since road construction and district unit planning were included as the target projects for small-scale EIA in the "Enforcement Decree of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act", which was partially revised in November 2016, and the current consultation system needed discussion in that small-scale EIA is allowed to be done without gathering review opinions at the local level. In fact, projects subjected to local government EIA but consulted as small-scale EIAs may seem insignificant because of a small number of total cases; however, it is worth paying attention to the fact that a local government may not add a target project due to the small-scale EIA. This study suggested the three policy measures for improving small-scale EIA to enhance the effectiveness of local government EIA: supplementing the institutional arrangements to incorporate the review opinion from the local region in small-scale EIA, giving priority to local EIA for conducing the projects in overlapping ranges with partial amendments on EIA law regarding exceptions to local government EIA, including small target projects (not to be small-scale EIA targets) to the ordinance that are deemed necessary to be conducted as local government EIA. Even though a positive function of small-scale EIA has been confirmed, efforts should be made to improve the situation in which many projects within local governments are consulted without review from the region.

An Effective Environmental Assessment for the Simple Statement of the Sea Area Utilization Consultation System (간이해역이용협의 유형분석 및 효율적 환경평가방안)

  • Lee, Dae-In;Eom, Ki-Hyuk;Kim, Gui-Young
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.255-264
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    • 2013
  • This paper diagnosed the assessment problems and development types of the simple statement of the Sea Area Utilization Consultation System. and suggested the key assessment items for system improvement. The major types of Public Water occupation and use, and distribution characteristic of regional and coastal were analyzed by evaluate 529 review items during 2010-2012. The artificial structure installation including harbor and fishing port facilities in the South and West coast, and seawater supply and drainage for land-based aquaculture and power plant were dominated. The checklists considering each types of occupation and use in Public Water were suggested. In addition, policy proposals for system improvement were suggested.