• ensuring environmental factors are considered in the decision-making process
• ensuring that possible adverse environmental impacts are identified and avoided or minimised
• informing the public about the proposal

Other Advantages of EIA:

• facilitates the design of a monitoring programme
  
• allows people to examine the underlying need for a project
• gives people the opportunity to identify problems
• helps a developer to design a more publicly acceptable project
• exploration of alternatives can help identify cost-saving and other beneficial changes

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According to a United Nations Environment Program Training Resource Manual the main advantages and benefits of EIA are:

• improved project design/siting;
• more informed decision-making;
• more environmentally sensitive decisions;
• increased accountability and transparency during the development process;
• improved integration of projects into their environmental and social setting;
• reduced environmental damage;
• more effective projects in terms of meeting their financial and/or socio-economic objectives; and
• a positive contribution toward achieving sustainability.

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