Commissions for Environmental Impact Assessment: Their Contribution to theEffectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment

摘要

The thesis presents a theory on the feasibility of EIA Commissions and the way inwhich they can be modeled. The cases selected are the Dutch EIA Commission, the central Polish EIA Commission and the Hungarian Commission on Power Plants. Extensive literature research was conducted on these cases and a total of 79 persons, involved in EIA were interviewed. In addition to the three cases, a more limited literature study was conducted on the Canadian EIA panels. Sections discuss the questions what EIA is, what EIA Commissions are, what effective EIA is, how subjective EIA is and what complications this can give for the effectiveness EIA is, how subjective EIA is and what complications this can give for the effectiveness of EIA, what the potential contribution of EIA Commissions to the effectiveness of EIA is, and what role the decision-making culture plays in this.