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The increasingly complex environmental legislation together with the growing environmental awareness of societies has led the consideration of environmental impacts at each level of public project analysis. Although large number of environmental impact assessment(EIA) procedures are available, it is still outstanding that an appropriate EIA procedure must be adopted at each project level in its merit. This paper describes an environmental assessment procedure for including environmental impacts along with the economical considerations in large scale water resources planning process.
The inclusion of environmental impacts in water resources planning is carried out by weighing the costs of various water resources development options(both constructional and operating) to reflect their environmental impacts prior to their inclusion in an optimization procedure. The effect of such a weighting procedure, is to encourage the selection of environmentally-friendly schemes at the expense of environmentally-damaging ones. The weights are obtained through previously mentioned EIA procedure, for which a FORTRAN code is developed. By using user’s own evaluations of environmental impacts, the model produces environmental performance indicators for a series of water resources development projects for which a screening procedure is to be applied. Coupling the model with an optimization procedure, it is possible to use these performance indicators in water resources screening process.
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Yurdusev, M.A., Ari, H. (1997). An environmental impact assessment model for water resources screening. In: Denzer, R., Swayne, D.A., Schimak, G. (eds) Environmental Software Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2869-8_14
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