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Credit: Ayushi Kachhara NIWA 2018
Guidance

Preparing Environmental Impact Assessments: General guidelines for offshore mining and drilling with particular reference to New Zealand

These guidelines have contributed to development of EIA template and guidance by the International Seabed Authority

The guidance is not intended to be exhaustive or prescriptive. Each resource and each location will have its own set of circumstances that are best described and assessed in a particular way.

However, the document covers aspects that should be in every EIA, and provides general guidance to the content in each section of the template. It includes:

This document focuses on guidance for environmental and ecological assessment of impacts. The template includes sections and subsections on social, economic, and cultural issues, following the EIA template produced by the ISA. These issues are often treated separately, and how that is addressed can be evaluated for each specific case. Their inclusion here attempts to progress the concept of a more integrated impacts assessment, even though provision of advice on them was beyond the scope of the existing study.

EMOM EIA guidelines Revision Jan2017

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