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Problems and Improvement Strategies of Environmental Impact Assessment by Local Government in South Korea– Case Studies of 8 Local Governments including Seoul, Jeju, Busan and Daejeon –

  • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Abbr : J EIA
  • 2020, 29(2), pp.132-143
  • Publisher : Korean Society Of Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Research Area : Engineering > Environmental Engineering
  • Received : March 31, 2020
  • Accepted : April 10, 2020
  • Published : April 30, 2020

Jin-Oh Kim ORD ID 1 BYOUNG WOOK MIN ORD ID 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to identify the accomplishments and limits of the local governments’ environmental impact assessment operation system and to propose a policy plan to improve it through an analysis of the current status of the operations by local governments. As the research method, based on an understanding of the basic purpose and concept of the local government’s environmental impact assessment, the current status of environmental impact assessment by major local governments such as Seoul, Jeju, Busan, Daejeon, etc. is analyzed and indepth interviews with public officials in charge are conducted. Through the extensive discussions, the current situation and the problems are identified. The accomplishments of the local governments’ operation of environmental impact assessment are: it is possible, first, to select evaluation targets and items in accordance with regional characteristics; second, to continuously strengthen the management and monitoring the evaluation result after through its own follow-up control. The limits revealed are; first, internal organization problems, which are largely due to the fact that the project approvers and the environmental impact assessment consultants are the same; second, poor cooperation system between the department of environmental impact assessment and other departments; third, lack of professionalism in the working forces; and forth, a limited pool of the skilled judges; and last, it was found that there could be frequent problems of overlapping regulation during coordinating target projects and evaluation contents.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.