Environmental Impact Assessment and Integrated Water Resources Management

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) plays an important role in the framework of the
efforts aiming at the formulation of a complete water resources management. In our paper
this issue is examined in an integrated way. The following issues are particularly examined :
the notion of the EIA in general, the assessment methods and techniques on the basis of the
suitability of their use, the economic aspects, the Greek legislative framework, case-law
positions in general as well as the action and the steering pattern of the Greek Public
Administration concerning this issue. This paper presents some conclusions and proposals
which are drawn by the aforementioned integrated approach.