ABSTRACT

Undertaking environmental assessments for small, rural development projects has proven to be both vexing and essential. Our research considers one approach to assessing such projects, community-based environmental assessment (CBEA). The purpose of our work was to gauge current CBEA practice and consider next generation approaches in the face of challenges such as lack of adequate capacity, resource and power imbalances, achieving meaningful participation, narrow conceptions of sustainability, and weak follow-up and monitoring. Through a literature review and semi-structured interviews with various EA experts from around the globe, we consider these issues and propose a framework for next-generation community-based environmental assessment (NG-CBEA) that builds on four key next generation themes; sustainability, meaningful public participation, follow-up and monitoring, and learning.

摘要

事实证明，对小型农村发展项目进行环境评估既令人烦恼又至关重要。我们的研究考虑了评估此类项目的一种方法，即基于社区的环境评估（CBEA）。我们工作的目的是评估当前的 CBEA 实践，并考虑下一代方法，以应对缺乏足够能力、资源和权力失衡、实现有意义的参与、狭隘的可持续性概念以及薄弱的后续和监测等挑战。通过文献综述和对来自世界各地的环境评估专家的半结构化访谈，我们考虑了这些问题，并提出了下一代基于社区的环境评估（NG-CBEA）框架，该框架建立在四个关键的下一代主题之上；可持续性、有意义的公众参与、