Impact Assessment – ENVIRODIARY

Environmental impact statement and Environmental assessment

Juli 5, 2007 oleh arie

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 proposed actions.

The introduction part of the document will state overview of the project, the purpose, alternative actions, summary of important environmental aspects and the methods of assessment being used. The description of proposed actions and alternative will describe the actions, lists of stage conducted for the project. In this part, alternatives are also mentioned, including a “no-action” alternatives as well. Statement also include the projected actions if the project is not done.

Environmental Impact Matrix

Mei 25, 2007 oleh arie

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.

Check list application

Mei 20, 2007 oleh arie

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 build a huge shopping mall in a certain area located in the center of the city, thus in a very crowded area. Identify and value the importance and magnitude of the impacts that may arise.

Environmental assessment and checklist methods

Mei 16, 2007 oleh arie

Okay, I have mentioned about environmental identification or inventories, let us move to the next step which is environmental assessment.

Identification elements of impacts

Mei 14, 2007 oleh arie

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.

Impact assessment: evolution and key stage

Mei 9, 2007 oleh arie

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.

Impact assessment: general principle

Mei 3, 2007 oleh arie

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 environmental effects of all federal activities, assists the President in evaluating environmental probles and determines solutions to these problems.

Environmental impact assessment: brief overview

Mei 2, 2007 oleh arie

Almost all aspects involving alteration of natural environment now require that the impact, interactions and effects of every designed structures towards natural habitat or ecosystems be considered and assessed for any kind of activities. In US, this was in 1970 which the principle was enacted into federal law.