Análise comparativa entre avaliação e estudo de impacto ambiental

Abstract

This paper aims to clarify some points concerning the difference between the Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Impact Study as recommended by current legislation. Under the law 6938/81, which established the National Environmental Policy referred to legal institutions are instruments for the consolidation of the aforementioned policy. Given the importance that environmental law has been gaining steadily, and the importance of taking sedimented environmental legal concepts, especially in respect to environmental licensing is required if an authoritative study on the subject, in order to contribute to doctrinal growth of environmental law. The research was presented literature and documents, as the pure type, as the qualitative approach as descriptive and exploratory goals. It turns out that the doctrine, and courts, often the two terms are used interchangeably, when in fact they are not. Thus, many decisions are handed down putting down the wrong concept. Environmental Impact Assessment is one of the elements of the environmental impact assessment. It is running, by a multidisciplinary team of scientific and technical tasks to examine systematically the consequences of implementing a project on the environment through the EIA methods and techniques for forecasting environmental impacts. Already Environmental Impact Study is an environmental policy instrument, consisting of a set of procedures able to ensure from the beginning of the program, which will make a systematic examination of the environmental impacts of a proposed action (project, program, plan or policy) and its alternatives, and the results are presented to the public and those responsible for decision making, and they consider. Therefore, we should not confuse the prior impact assessment for licensing purposes, the evaluation of environmental impact. This is because when we first we are referring to a study spot, often only used for the purpose of obtaining an environmental permit. In this case, the study is preliminary and reflects the likelihood of impacts. In the case of the second, we have an ongoing assessment of the impacts. It is a much more dynamic, not more important, and still greater precision and measurement.