An Investor wants to put up an Industrial Plant for the manufacture of paper for both local and external market. The Investor intends to establish the paper manufacturing mill in a relatively wet and forested upper parts of chinsali district in the slopes of mushinga province. (Mountainous area with a lot of rain, springs, forests, olive farms, and fruit farms). Apart from the paper mill, the Investor will also provide infrastructure and social services in the region. In view of the socio-economic and biophysical environmental implications that may result due to the proposal, there has been public debate particularly on the loss of habitat/biodiversity and competition for scarce water resources in the region. Assuming your consultancy firm has won a contract to undertake Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study on this proposed project:

a) Form an Interdisciplinary Team for this EIA study and Justify the formation.

b) List in order the logical steps in the EIA process that your study team is likely to follow in order to achieve the task assigned to you.

c) Who would you consider to be Key Stakeholders to participate in the EIA study process? Give reasons for your answer.

d) State five (5) issues which should form the scope of the EIA study.

e) Discuss How to determine the significance of environmental impacts of the proposed project.

Note: Suitable diagrams can be used wherever they serve to illustrate an answer for Q2.