Question 1: Write true or false:
a) EIA helps in finding out as to which alternative site would be exhibiting less impact of the development project.
b) Draft EIS is made after the implementation of the project.
c) Impact identification should precede the base-line data collection.
d) All the parameters of environment should be comprised in the actual impact assessment program, whether significant or non-significant.
Question 2: Fill up the blanks:
a) In India __________ provides the guidelines for EIA.
b) Contingent valuation technique is an approach to give monetary __________ valuation of factors.
c) In Multi-criteria process of impact evaluation, relative importance of the environmental parameter is given a __________ and the magnitude of the impact is assigned a __________.
d) The questionnaire process of decision analysis is better termed as __________.
Question 3: Answer the given questions:
Question a: Illustrate the significance of EIA?
Question b: Why is base-line data significant? Which parameters are generally taken in the base-line inventory?
Question c: Describe different methods of impact identification and prediction.
Question d: What is meant by the term cost-benefit analysis?
Question e: Illustrate the methods of the environmental monetary valuation?
Question f: What do you mean by the term mitigation?