Abstract ID: 3.11251 | Accepted as Poster | Talk/Oral | TBA | TBA

Since the very inception of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 1986, the EIA has become a decisive tool in bridging the gap between environment and development. However, with the changing climatic scenarios and disasters becoming frequent and intensive, conservation of environment has become pivotal in day-to-day activities. Hence, this is forcing a relook into existing system of EIA from a disaster perspective. The paper elaborates the existing structure of EIA as been carryout by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in India, and dissects it further to reveal its standard setup in the context of environment and disaster. The present scenarios of disasters are often outcomes anthropogenic activities done in the name of development, and these developments often lead the disturbance in the fragile ecosystems to disasters. This provides an entry point to relook into EIA procedure, identify causes and utilise the opportunity to take prompt corrective measures much before such development turns into a disaster. This paper helps in understanding enabling and corrective measures to effectively addressee the issue of environmental degradation induced disaster. The work contributes to a novel perspective to EIA by scoping disaster in the existing structure, and identify the steps that is falling short. The findings recommend essential introduction of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) components to environment mitigation plan in a more cohesive way.