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The United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, with the assistance of W.S. Atkins Research and Development, started work on developing guidelines for Assessing Industrial Environmental Impact and Environmental Criteria for the Siting of Industry in March 1978. At three ad hoc expert meetings it was agreed that the guidelines to be developed should not be of a cook book type of manual which would recommend a rigid step by step approach for undertaking environmental impact assessment. A rigid approach was considered not suitable since the guidelines would need to have global applications. Furthermore, as each industrial project would be somewhat different from another, and sited in different types of locations, a flexible approach would be needed to carry out impact assessments. The guidelines should therefore aim to provide a framework from which an appropriate environmental impact assessment process could be structured, taking into account the local conditions.
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Htun, M.N. (1984). Development of UNEP Guidelines for Assessing Industrial Environmental Impact and Environmental Criteria for the Siting of Industry. In: Clark, B.D., Gilad, A., Bisset, R., Tomlinson, P. (eds) Perspectives on Environmental Impact Assessment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6381-8_18
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