Archive for the ‘Impact Assessment’ Category
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
The general principle of environmental impact assessment has been explained in previous post. Three outcomes resulted from judging the proposed project are FONSI, EA and EIA. EA and EIS document generally consist on three parts, introduction, description of proposed project and alternatives and description of the environment affected by the ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Basically interaction matrix is a two-dimensional listing, row listing and vertical listing constitutes impact interaction between each elements of characteristics and conditions of the environment and proposed actions that may affect the environment.
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
I will give a very simple application of check list approach to identify the impact and gather all relevant information and value them in terms of importance and magnitude of the impacts. Suppose you are government official in your environmental agency in your city. You receive a proposed project to ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Okay, I have mentioned about environmental identification or inventories, let us move to the next step which is environmental assessment.
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
Brief overiew of impact assessment has been explained in previous post. As it has been mentioned, one crucial part of impact assessment is inventory. The inventory here means to identify, to note, to gather all information and factors that may be affected by proposed projects or actions.
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Basic overview of impact assessment has been provided from previous post. As you are probably aware, from the embrio of environmental impact assessment long time, as time runs, the implementation has evolved into something more social.
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Impact assessment history began at 1970, it was the President, Richard Nixon, who signed NEPA into law, establish a national policy to encourage "productive and enjoyable harmony" between people and their environment. Because of that, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) was established with its main job to monitor the ...
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