FIJ: Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Guidelines
01 January 2008
In the promotion of environmentally sound and sustainable
development, it is indispensable to establish the necessary legal
and institutional arrangements such that environmental factors are
considered at the early stages of project planning. Environmental
assessment is an important technique for ensuring that the likely
impacts on the environment of proposed developments are fully
understood and taken into account before such developments is
allowed to proceed.
EIA is essentially a preventive process. It seeks to avoid costly
mistakes in project planning and development; mistakes which can
be costly either because of environmental losses that result or costly
because of modification that might be required subsequently to
make the project environmentally acceptable to the Government
and to the community. In Fiji, Environment Impact Assessments
(EIA) for development projects is a requirement under the
Environment Management Act (2005).
Geographical Focus:
Fiji
Type of Content:
Learning Event