ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the provisional system for Integrated Environmental Zoning (IEZ) in operational detail, to critically assess this methodology, and to provide an overview of some of the experience generated by the pilot projects. Integrated Environmental Zoning is an innovative effort to account for several environmental spillovers from manufacturing activities, and to manage their impacts on surrounding residential areas. The provisional system also includes a set of pollution abatement measures and land use regulations associated with the various categories of these cumulative pollution scores, which are intended to reduce or eliminate unacceptable environmental spillovers on residential areas. The IEZ program is an innovative and comprehensive approach to accounting for several kinds of environmental spillovers from manufacturing activity and, on the basis of mapping the spatial incidence of these spillovers, to seek pollution reduction or to limit residential use of areas which are heavily impacted.
