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Public Participation
and Environmental Impact Assessment
Mahmood
Soltani*
Environmental Impact Assessment “EIA” is a scientific and actual
process to evaluation of human activities on the environment. The
method, because of increasing changes of the environment, pressures of
human activities to vital resources ,
and threatening impacts of some developmental projects, is most
important environment issues.
An EIA
procedure has many aspects such as social,
economical, physical, political, etc… Effectiveness of an EIA is
depended to consider these aspects. Thus, Public Participation has
significant role in the procedures.
This paper emphasize on the different aspects
of public participation in the EIA, with emphasizing in
*Senior
Expert of Environment, DOE of
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