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Application of Rapid Impact
Assessment for Development Projects
Dr. Seyed
Masoud Monavari Project
Manager of EIA in IRIRAN E-mail :
monavarism@yahoo.com
There are many
problems and shortcoming for application of traditional and regular
methods of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) in IRIRAN. The main
problems are the costs, timing, accuracy, specialty of defining
judgment, and evaluation of EIA reports. The Rapid Impact
Assessment (RIA) has been known as a new tool to organize, analyze and
present of an EIA. RIA is based on quantitative data, standard, criteria
definition, and accuracy. Application of RIA as a
powerful tool to use in an EIA, test different options easily and is
able to obtain an overview of the solutions. As a matter of fact,
this computerized system allows for the results to be shown in graphical
form, easy way evaluates and compare impacts of options with high
accuracy and rapid evaluation. In this paper, identifying of RIA methodology and an example of its application for a case study on proposed project of an airport in IRIRAN is given.
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