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Secondary data-associated challenges for environmental assessment in developing countries; case of Egypt

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Abstract

 Assessing environmental major development projects requires using advanced
levels of environmental secondary data (ESD). This is particularly challenging in
developing countries. Hence, a systemic literature review was performed. Along
with structured interviews and online questionnaire designed for professional
planners and researchers were used to investigate the factors affecting secondary
data collection and processing for environmental assessment systems in Egypt as
an example of developing countries revealing potentials and challenges. The
results pinpointed critical problems for ESD associated with poor sufficiency,
availability, relevance, and accuracy of data. Thus, using these four defined criteria,
an assessment framework was developed to evaluate the status of ESD for
development projects. This provides guidelines for establishing an integrated data
collection and management system to support the environmental assessment
process. This is further applied to ‘Elqattara depression national development
project' to investigate the environmental impact of various desalination
development scenarios. This case study project pinpointed problems for the ESD
used related to both relevance and sufficiency.

DOI

10.21608/msaeng.2023.293946

Keywords

Environmental secondary data, Environmental data sharing, Assessment of Environmental Secondary Data, Qattara depression

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

El Sayed

MiddleName

Adel

Affiliation

Elsherouk City

Email

marwa.adel@bue.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-0585-0912

First Name

Walaa

Last Name

Salah

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Affiliation

The British University in Egypt

Email

walaa.salah@bue.edu.eg

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Volume

2

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2

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40382

Issue Date

2023-03-01

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2023-04-04

Publish Date

2023-03-01

Page Start

1,225

Page End

1,244

Print ISSN

2812-5339

Online ISSN

2812-4928

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MSAENG_Volume 2_Issue 2_Pages 1225-1244.pdf

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MSA Engineering Journal

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Secondary data-associated challenges for environmental assessment in developing countries; case of Egypt

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28 Dec 2024