TY  - JOUR
T1  - Legal Functions of the Concept of Significance in the Process of Environmental Impact Assessment
AU  - Saygılı, Abdurrahman
PY  - 2009
DA  - January
JF  - Ankara Bar Review
PB  - Ankara Barosu
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1308-0636
SP  - 25
EP  - 29
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - Significance is an essential concept in the international, national and  regional law texts that regulate the process of the Environmental  Impact Assessment (EIA).1   Nevertheless, there is no clear definition of  the concept of significance in such legal texts.2   In other words, there is  no clear legal definition of it; it is still undefined. It is important to stress  that the concept of significance has a threshold/limit function in the EIA  process. This threshold/limit function provides the acceptability of the  possible negative impacts. In practice, it is common that traditional law  is not able to find solutions with its traditional concept of damage nor it is  possible to implement the concept of damage in a concrete case. Therefore,  the concept of possible negative impact is contained in the legal texts as an  alternative for the cases where the damages appear in the long term. The  concept that legally provides the acceptability of possible negative impacts  is the significance. Thus, the activity shall not be permitted even though  there is no damage projected.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/abr/issue//606978
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/787397
ER  -