Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) In Turkish Environmental Laws

I. INTRODUCTION

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a principle developed on the idea that the use of resources spent to clean, repair and re-balance a polluted or destroyed environment after the fact, being less efficient than the use of resources spent for prevention of the negative impacts concerning the investments for development at the beginning.

In this regard EIA, may be defined as a process covering different stages of different time periods, aiming to detect the hazardous environmental impacts and measures that can be taken to keep them at an acceptable level for some investments and to prevent environmentally unfavorable ones by demonstrating that such negative impacts may not be mitigated.