Box 4.5 Risk Impact Assessment (RIA): an agency perspective
[2] Facilitating.
Planner-friendly, user-relevant, helpful at identifying
interests and capable of encouraging projects and
proposals.[5] Scoping.
Effective scoping involves an early identification of the
potentially intractable, the modifiable and the tractable
consequences arising from a project, as indicators for
base-line studies.[7] Base-Line Study. Responding to base-line study
requirements is a project sponsor's responsibility.
Clearly inadequate, misleading, insufficiently scientific or
unconvincing base-line studies of little utility to the
panel, can be referred back for re-expression.[9=] Public Notification and
Call for Responses[11] Quantify Impacts and Compare Options.
The ‘nub’ of the procedure. Here the magnitude, extent
and time-scale of a proposal will be judged against
carrying capacities and likely outcomes. The positive
as well as negative considerations arise from
construction impacts, energy impacts, waste-disposal
impacts, economic impacts, socio-political impacts and
employment impacts. At this stage particular safeguards
against non-reversible and cumulative impact must
be detected for mitigation or prohibition.
[13] Write Working Documents.
Mitigating and monitoring measures are drawn up.
Prohibitions, design criteria, compatibility
requirements, minority safeguards, non-compliance
sanctions, insurance protocols, and disclaimers to
be prepared in clear legal language.
AGREEMENT ACCORD GOES BACK OUT
TO ALL RESPONDENTS; THEN TO LINE
AGENCIES FOR ADMINISTRATION.[14] RESOLUTION
ENTERING INTO DISPUTE
NEGOTIATION; PREFERABLY
MEDIATION RATHER THAN
ARBITRATION.[12] COLLATION[10] COLLECTION OF INITIAL RESPONSES[9=] DISPERSE INFORMATION
OUT TO STATUTORY
UNDERTAKERS, NGOs AND
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS[8] RECEIPT OF BASE-LINE STUDIES[4] ACTIVATE PANEL
THE CORE PANEL WOULD COMPRISE
SPECIALIST ADVISERS AND CO-OPTED
EXTERNAL SPECIALISTS AS REQUIRED.
[6] BASELINE STUDY REQUIREMENTS
ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
INFORMATION WILL BE USUALLY
REQUIRED OF A PROJECT PROPOSER.[3] CALL-IN OPTIONS
THE FACILITY AVAILABLE TO AN APPRAISAL
PANEL TO APPLY AN RIA TO ANY PROJECT.[1] INITIAL EVALUATION
INVOLVES A PANEL APPRAISAL OF A
PROJECT: ARISING FROM GOVERNMENT,
WITHIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT; AND
WITH POSSIBLE PARTICIPATION BY
OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES
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