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Environmental impact assessment in Thailand

Developers in Thailand often regard EIA as a necessary evil but this does not do the process justice as it also makes sound economic sense. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) refers to the formal process used to predict the environmental consequences of a proposed project such as a new condominium or resort development. The primary objective of an EIA is to ensure that the potential impacts, ...

Dec. 4, 2008

By SLP Environmental Co., Ltd - An ASEAN Environmental Consultancy

Increasing the Impact of Risk Assessment

Improve your risk management programs over time and increase employee safety by making risk assessment a living part of your organisation. By implementing a ‘living’ risk assessment cycle and developing a safety culture, you can: Manage risk more effectively Be better prepared for litigation Reduce overall risk This paper will identify a ...

Aug. 21, 2012

By Medgate, Inc

Assessment of relative impact of reservoir location

Reallocation of reservoir storage capacity for different water use purposes is regarded as one of the representative strategies for supplying water for human and environmental needs under the difficult situation of new reservoir construction. However, there are impacts of reservoir storage reallocation on river/reservoir systems because each reservoir in a multiple reservoir system is operated ...

Jun. 25, 2014

By IWA Publishing

Environmental impact assessment of bathroom products

It has been recognised worldwide that previous patterns of industrial production have been causing resource depletion and waste accumulation. To address the issue, not only the selection of materials, but also the cycle of stages in the life of a product, are subject to scrutiny. These stages may include resource extraction, manufacturing, packaging and shipping, use and refurbishment. This paper ...

Jan. 30, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

A contextual approach to environmental impact assessment

This paper presents an environmental impact assessment method implemented in a computational tool for the environmental evaluation of building designs. The method is an extension of a traditional material-focused life cycle analysis (LCA), and is based on a spatial allocation for emissions and resource usage. The implementation described here uses a model of an evaluative environment, which ...

Feb. 4, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

EC Publishes NanoData Landscape Compilation Reports

On June 8, 2017, the European Commission (EC) published eight ...

Aug. 7, 2017

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Including ecotoxic impacts on warm‐blooded predators in life cycle impact assessment

In current life cycle impact assessment, the focus of ecotoxicity is on cold‐blooded species. We developed a method to calculate characterization factors (CFs) for the impact assessment of chemical emissions on warm‐blooded predators in freshwater food chains. The method was applied to 329 organic chemicals. The CF for these predators was defined as a multiplication of the fate factor (FF), ...

Sep. 19, 2011

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Environmental impact assessment of industrial development at Gladstone, Australia

The modelling system LADM, consisting of a prognostic mesoscale model and a Lagrangian dispersion model, has been used to assess the impact of existing and proposed emitters in a region of complex terrain. The highest ground-level concentrations of sulphur dioxide are predicted to occur in stable conditions when elevated plumes impact on local terrain. Early-morning fumigation and convective ...

Sep. 17, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Road network unreliability: impact assessment and mitigation

Road transport network reliability has recently become important, with the increasing emphasis on 'just-in-time' production methods and reducing the impacts of natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis). This has led to increased efforts to mitigate the impacts of disruption of road transport networks, and the inclusion of changes in network reliability in economic appraisals of road network ...

Jun. 22, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

The role of strategic health impact assessment in sustainable development

Health is one of the main ways of judging effects on humans and is a component of the three overlapping dimensions of sustainable development: environmental, social and economic. Yet, the assessment of health impacts has been neglected as a way of arguing for the importance of policies to foster sustainable development or of evaluating policies from this viewpoint. Health impact assessment (HIA) ...

Apr. 9, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Cumulative Air Quality Impact Assessments - A Case Study

Introduction Deregulation across the country has resulted in the proposal of hundreds of new power plants within the last several years. Each power plant, individually, is required to demonstrate conformance with state and federal air quality regulations. However, there is still a great deal of public concern over the combined or cumulative impact that all of these proposed ...

Dec. 1, 2002

By Trinity Consultants

Environmental Impact Assessment Review - Check List

Untitled Document Objectives of the Review Checklist This Review Checklist has been developed as a method for reviewing environmental ...

Jan. 1, 1995

By European Commission, Environment DG

How to weave ecosystem services into impact assessments

The Wayuu people in northern Colombia depend on shrubland for grazing their livestock. These herds serve as the Wayuus’ main source of income and food, and this is partly why they depend so heavily on the existence and condition of shrubland ecosystems. But livestock are also used to pay dowries or make amends, playing a major role in facilitating social interactions between families and ...

Oct. 2, 2013

By World Resources Institute WRI

Demystifying the Role of Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessments

Ensuring that development projects benefit both people and the planet is becoming more and more of a priority. Environmental and social impact assessments (ESIA) have been in use for decades to consider the effects of projects such as dams, highways, and oil and gas development. Over the years, ESIAs have evolved to cover both ...

Jun. 4, 2013

By World Resources Institute WRI

Regulatory models for environmental impact assessments in Hungary

This paper describes the methodology and input requirements of environmental impact assessments regulated in Hungary by national standards for more than 10 years. The main characteristics are (a) various models simulate the impact of point, multi-source, line and area sources on local, urban and regional scales, (b) design transmission matrices are readily available for the greater part of the ...

Sep. 17, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Indicators of wetland acidification and their relevance to environmental impact assessment

Developments in most tropical coastlines are often hampered by acidification, which occurs when sedimentary pyrites are disturbed during construction activities. Acidification causes vegetation die back, fish mortality, heavy metal pollution, corrosion of concrete, steel and other metallic structures. The aim of this study is to develop tools for predicting the likelihood of acidification ...

Aug. 18, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Socioeconomic Impact Assessment in Saudi Arabia: problems and perspectives

The Socioeconomic Impact Assessment (SIA) specialists face a host of challenges in interpreting the importance of social and economic impacts. Evidence is abundant in the literature about the serious implications resulting from incomplete or prejudiced SIA analyses during execution of the projects and beyond. This paper conceptualises the significance of social and economic impacts, and discusses ...

Jun. 1, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

Atmospheric environment impact assessment of thermal power plant

Due to the excess consumption of natural resources and the severe deterioration of the environment, people are having a growing consciousness of environmental protection and more concerned of air pollution problems. However, the thermal power plant, as one of the main pollution sources, burns a large amount of fossil fuels and discharge pollutants which cause serious atmospheric pollution. ...

Apr. 1, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Age of onset in health impact assessment of chemical substances

The age at which a disability starts is important information when performing a quantitative health impact assessment of any particular chemical substance. From the fields of epidemiology and toxicology it is known that this age of onset may be influenced by chemical exposure and that this influence is dose (or exposure) dependent, i.e. effects will occur at younger ages when dose is increased. ...

May 14, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Regulatory impact assessment and its evolution in Greece and Cyprus

During the recent years an increasing demand emerged to improve the existing law systems through procedures that support the standards of better regulation. Such processes are the regulatory impact assessment (RIA) systems through which researchers, administrators and decision/policy makers can assess the economic, social and environmental impacts of any given legislation. Every country ...

Jun. 30, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

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