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This chapter studies Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) in Russia. An EIA is a legal assessment process, where companies planning a project must evaluate its potential negative impact on the environment. Russian law stipulates mandatory negotiations between business, civil society and state actors during an EIA. The chapter examines how formally-prescribed collaborations during an EIA take place in practice. Thereby, particular attention is paid to the use of meta-governance tools by the state and the specific governance mix. The analysis is based on a qualitative design with six case studies of EIAs in the Krasnodar and Irkutsk regions. It reveals that the Russian authorities use a mix of hard and soft governance-tools in order to govern EIA. The legal framework in Russia involves relatively soft meta-governance tools. The empirical findings, however, demonstrate that EIAs are conducted very differently. One can identify three major patterns which vary significantly in the way the state applies meta-governance tools: softly dominated networks, strongly dominated networks, and mimicked networks.
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Schuhmann, J., Kropp, S. (2018). Environmental Impact Assessment: Between Facilitating Public Contribution and Arbitrary Involvement of NGOs. In: Kropp, S., Aasland, A., Berg-Nordlie, M., Holm-Hansen, J., Schuhmann, J. (eds) Governance in Russian Regions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61702-2_4
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