Environmental Impact Assessment
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an administrative procedure whose purpose is to examine, interpret, and predict the effects of a work or activity in a given habitat. It aspires to collect information to present a broad vision and understanding of how ecological systems work as a whole and the present or future implications that human behavior expressed in certain measures or interventions in them would entail. In Misiones Province, this instrument was legislated through Law XVI-35 and its application and procedures were regulated by a series of ministerial resolutions. This legal framework provides for the participation of all persons who may be considered affected by the possible measure in question, either as an individual citizen or as a community representation or social organization.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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