Environmental impact assessment: achieving sustainable development through increased civic literacy

EIA can be used as a tool for managers in planning for sustainable development.This article illustrates it may promote sustainable development by increasing in civileducation. EIA could increase knowledge of people about the environment anddevelopment activities, could raise their sensitivity to changes in their environment,and afford Facilities to participate in the selection of regional development and localarea, and in another approach, it ultimate to exalting in public civic literacy. Sustainabledevelopment is the process of change in the ways of how to use resources, directinvestments, orient technological development in compatible with present and futureneeds. Achieving this form of development will require corporation and consultation of human beings and citizens with each other and with the government. So, EIA isconsidered as a tool for sustainable development and increasing civic literacy. Giventhat civic literacy is closely related to the promotion of science, a theoretical argumentfor this paper is to promote and disseminate knowledge about it.