Philippine Environmental Impact Assessment, Mining and Genuine Development

Abstract

Genuine development reflects sustainability. To promote genuine development in the context of mining, the environmental impact assessment process in the Philippines needs to be changed to respect ecological integrity, mitigate cumulative environmental effects, provide more information on environmental impacts to residents affected by a proposed mine and facilitate meaningful public participation in the impact assessment process.

Keywords

• Cumulative effects
• genuine development
• environmental impact assessment
• mining
• public consultation