GUIDELINES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN THE ARCTIC


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LITERATURE ON ARCTIC EIA

Furman, E.
”Miten pohjoisia ympäristövaikutuksia arvioidaan?” Ympäristö, etiikka ja pohjoinen ulottuvuus. Oulun ympäristöpäivät 3-4.2.1999. Oulu, Pohjois-Pohjanmaan ympäristökeskus, s. 51-54. Alueelliset ympäristöjulkaisut; 107.

Furman, E.R. & M. Hildén
’MKB-riktlinjer för arktiska områden’. - MKB Nordisk Nyhedsbrev. April 12-13, 1997.
‘Harmonization of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA´s) in the Arctic Context.’ - Canada-EU Transatlantic Relations: Circulpolar Cooperation and the Northern Dimension. Ottawa, October 19-20, 1999.

Environmental Impact Assessment – A Tool for Sustainable Development in the Arctic. Speech given in the Third International Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region Salekhard, April 22-24, 1998. The text can be found on the home page of the Standing Committee of Arctic Parliamentarians at http://www.grida.no/parl/salek/index.htm 

Hildén, M. & E. Furman

New Guidelines for Arctic Environmental Impact Assessments: An important tool for Arctic policy makers. - WWF Arctic Bulletin 4. P. 11, 1996.

Environmental Impact Assessment in an Arctic Context. Meeting of the Environmental Section of the Euro-Barents Euro-Arctic Council, Kemi, May 1996.

‘Guidelines for Arctic Environmental Assessment’. - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, New Zealand, April 1998 (CD-ROM).

Husby, Stig Roar & Tesli, Arne
’Eia in a Transboundary Context: Principles and Challenges for a Coordinated Nordic Application of the Espoo Convention’ in 19 Environmental Impact Assessment Review (1999), pp. 57-84.

Kankaanpää, P.&, E.R. Furman & M. Hildén
‘Sustainable development in the Arctic - Environmental Impact Assessment as one path’. - presented at the Conference on Sustainable Development in the Arctic, Whitehorse May 12-14, 1998.

Koivurova T.
‘Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic: A Study of International Legal Norms’, 
Ashgate Publishing, 448 pages. The information about this book can be found from the 
Ashgate homepage

An article in Finnish about environmental impact assessment in the Arctic for the honorary publication for the environmental law professor of the faculty of law of the University of Lapland, Kyösti Holma (22 pages). Lapin yliopistopaino, Rovaniemi 2002.

Måreng, Ine
Når Miljovirkninger krysser landegrenser; Forebyggning av grensoverskridande miljovirkninger ved mellomstatlig samarbeid om konsekvensutredninger. Hovedfagsoppgrave i Ressursgeografi og landskapsokologi, Geografisk Institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, 1996.

Mähönen, Outi
Projects with Major Environmental Impacts in (Sub-)Arctic Areas of Finland: Planning and Decision-Making. Case Study: Environmental Impact Assessment of the Sokli Mining Project. September 7-9.1994, Inari, Finland. A copy can be obtained from the Finnish Ministry of the Environment.
 
Belinskij, Antti
 
Luonnonsuojelulain Natura 2000 -säännösten vaikutus vesilupa-asian käsittelyyn. This full-text link works only inside the University of Lapland network.
 
Ekroos, Ari
 
Ympäristö- ja luonnonsuojeluoikeuden perusteet
This full-text link works only inside the University of Lapland network.
Peltomaa, Hannu
 
Lunastusyrityksestä aiheutuva kiinteistön arvon alentuminen ja sen korvattavuus. This full-text link works only inside the University of Lapland network.
Suvantola, Leila
 
Kuoleman katse – ympäristönkäytön luontovaikutusten selvittämisvelvollisuus. Lakimies 4/2006 s. 560 – 585. This full-text link works only inside the University of Lapland network

 
LITERATURE ON NORDIC EIA

Ad hoc arbetsgruppen for miljökonsekvensbeskrivningar (MKB) under Nordiska Ministerrådet 1989-1998 -report can be found on the EIA section of the Nordregio’s home page at http://www.nordregio.se  [12.3.2001].

Ett nordiskt MKB-nätverk. Rapport om nätverksuppbyggnad. TemaNord 1999: 526. Nordisk Ministerråd, Kobenhavn 1999.

A Comparative Study of Nordic EIA Systems - Similarities and Differences in National Implementation (edited by Bjarnadóttir, H.). Stockholm, Nordregio 2001. (Nordregio Report 2001:1). Printed by Elanders Gotab, Stockholm 2001.

Other links

Conditions of environmental impact assessment for the economic and military objects in the Russian part of the Barents region. Elena Komleva, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kola Science Centre, Institute of The North Industrial Ecological Problems. Article in the www.barentsinfo.org portal

Hallituksen esitys Eduskunnalle maantielaiksi ja eräiksi siihen liittyviksi laeiksi
MaantieL:n (23.6.05/503) esityöt osoitteessa: http://www.edilex.fi/virallistieto/he/20040017