Environmental Management Quiz

When did the Malaysian federal EIA requirements start operating?

• 2015

• 2000

• 1974

• 1987

What is the purpose of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)?

• To maximize profits for the project stakeholders

• To identify, predict, evaluate, and communicate information about project impacts on the environment

• To ignore the environmental consequences of the project

• To expedite project approval without considering environmental factors

What is the main objective of EIA?

• To disregard project impacts on the environment

• To examine and select the best project options

• To ignore environmental costs and benefits

• To avoid public participation

What does the 'E' in EIA stand for?

• Environmental

• Economic

• Engineering

• Efficient

What is the process involved in preparing an EIA?

• Project management, environmental components, impact assessment, mitigation measures, monitoring and auditing

• Only project management and impact assessment

• Monitoring and auditing only

• Environmental components and public participation

What is the difference between Detailed EIA and EIA?

• Detailed EIA is reviewed by an ad-hoc panel of experts

• Detailed EIA requires a Term of Reference (TOR) and cost-benefit analysis

• EIA does not require a TOR or cost-benefit analysis

• EIA is reviewed by an EIA committee at state DOE

What is the main concept of EIA?

• Mitigating measures and public participation only

• Environmental data collection and monitoring environmental impacts

• Only project options and costs and benefits

• Need for a project, project options, environmental data collection, mitigating measures, public participation, costs and benefits, monitoring environmental impacts

What is the main purpose of identifying and assessing impacts in EIA?

• To avoid implementing mitigating measures

• To determine the extent of significant impacts

• To ignore impacts on the environment

• To speed up the project development process

What is the main objective of mitigation measures in EIA?

• To increase the environmental impact of the project

• To incorporate appropriate abatement and mitigating measures into the project plan

• To avoid monitoring and auditing

• To disregard public participation

What is the purpose of monitoring and auditing in EIA?

• To disregard project management

• To avoid implementing environmental management systems

• To ensure continuous enforcement of environmental protection measures

• To ignore environmental components