Study on integration techniques for Environmental Impact Assessment of different media based standard industrial classification: A case study of South Korea

Abstract

Integrated techniques allow calculating the impact of individual pollutants forced on the environment and human health. It is quite difficult to manage and legalize the individual pollutant. Despite various efforts made so far for the effective environmental management, there exists a big challenge for implementing the policy and legislation to meet required standard for safe environment and health. Therefore, recently the integrated management of both medium based (water and air) pollutants has been conceptualized. Hence, this study focuses to compare the current practices of levy enforcement system to the integrated pollutants management system based on the real force of pollutants to the environment and human health.Total environmental performance score (EPS) with highest penalty is found to be 9,873,809,093 (46.59%) for facility categories with Code 51 (Coal Mining), the topmost rank with highest score among total facilities. Eleven industrial categories out of 88 have similar EPS with traditional practices while rest 77 have a dissimilar score. Thirty-three industrial categories rank higher in current levy enforcement than EPS penalty and 44 industrial categories have higher levy than EPS penalty. The existing compliance of legal charge based on simple sum of pollution (SSP) by volume rather than their degree of impact on environment is not scientific. Merely the volume cannot sufficiently reflect the real impact of pollutants. Thus, the enforcement should be amended as per the EPS penalty of pollutants. Hence, this study recommends for the revision of existing policy of legal levy system (LLS) based on IEPS penalty to regulate the equitable enforcement system for the pollutants as a whole.