Title: Suggestions on Improving Effectiveness of Public Participation in EIA for Rail Projects
Abstract: By summarizing the environmental impact and prevention characteristics of rail transit industry,the characteristics of some sensitive parts for the rail projects were classified in this paper. Based on the requirement for public participation,together with the current statistics on public participation risk investigation of the rail transit,the problems of public participation in Environmental Impact Assessment( EIA) in rail industry were summarized. These problems include: blemished and unfair involvement,deficiency of targeted survey,and lack of truth of the report. Based on the analysis of the deeply-rooted reasons impacting effective public participation,suggestions to improve effectiveness of public participation and reduce environmental and social impact for the rail transit were put forward from the perspectives of law and legislation,administrative mechanisms,involvement forms and statistics.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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