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An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an assessment of the likely human environmental health impact, risk to ecological health, and changes to nature's services that a project may have. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that decision-makers consider environmental impacts before deciding whether to proceed with new projects.
Overview
The US Environmental Protection Agency pioneered the use of pathway analysis to determine the likely human health impact of environmental factors. The technology for performing such analysis is properly labelled environmental science. The principal phenomena or pathways of impact are: soil contamination impacts, air pollution impacts, noise health effects, ecology impacts including endangered species assessment, geological hazards assessment and water pollution impacts. Pathway analysis and The Natural Step definitions later became the basis of the global ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards and the more recent ISO 19011 accounting standard; however,these ISO standards are not in common use in the U.S. and most other countries.
After an EIA analysis, the Precautionary Principle and Polluter Pays may be applied to prevent, limit, or require strict liability or insurance coverages to a project, based on its likely harms.
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International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) - Organization brings together researchers, practitioners, and users of various types of impact assessments worldwide. Find organization information, EIA resources, and links to related sites.
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Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) Project - Reports on the progress of a team effort to define a logically founded methodology for strategic environmental assessment of policies, plans and programs. Participants represent 7 European countries.
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency - Comprehensive EIA resource for Canada, including EIA legislation, guidance, training opportunities, specific EIA reports and reviews, and EIA links.
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Centre of Environmental Science (CML) - Section Substances and Products - Leiden university group, specializing in life cycle assessment and substance flow analysis. Provides information on the group, its ongoing projects and several downloadable papers and reports.
CEQ NEPA Net - Council on Environmental Quality's central information hub for the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act and the federal environmental impact assessment process, including environmental impact statements.
CHAINET - European network on chain analysis for environmental decision support - Project to create a guidebook on different environmental analytical tools.
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context - International EIA convention signed in 1991. Text, ratification status, implementation reports, and related resources.
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EIA Centre, University of Manchester (UK) - Educational programs, analyses, and links related to environmental impact assessment.
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Environmental Analysis - Ivan Bortoluzzi's website includes introductory information on environmental analysis, methodologies for impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment, and links to laws and case studies from around the world.
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Irrigation and Drainage Projects - Guide for consultants and planners in developing countries, from FAO.
Environmental Impact Assessment in Malta - Describes EIA procedures that operate in Malta, including a summary of the Environmental Statement, the terms of reference and the site plans for development applications that require an EIA.
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Environmental Impact Assessment in New York State - Regulations and related requirements, guidance for analyzing impacts, electronic copies of past state EISs, and downloadable forms.
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Environmental Impact Assessment WWW Links - Compiled by Manchester EIA Centre
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Nordic Network for Environmental Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Regional Development - Includes newsletters and proceedings of past conferences on EIA and SEA.
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Swedish EIA Centre - Information about impact assessment in Sweden. Most reports and other resources are only in Swedish.
The California Environmental Quality Act - Statute, guidelines, case law, FAQs, online archive of environmental assessment reports, and other resources related to the state impact assessment law.
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U.S. Department of Energy NEPA Web - Site contains DOE NEPA regulations and guidance, text of many DOE EISs and EAs, and links to other resources on NEPA and environmental impact assessment.
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U.S. DOD National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Process Review Forum - Forum to foster the exchange of information and ideas related to the NEPA process.
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U.S. General Services Administration NEPA Call-In - Provides NEPA compliance guidance to GSA employees and contractors.
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UN Environmental Programme EIA Training Resource Manual - Provides general background on project EIA as part of a more complex system of strategic EIA, offers a format for training needs analysis which can be used regionally, nationally and locally, and draws on a bank of training materials.
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US EPA Life-Cycle Assessment - Site established to promote the use of LCA to aid in understanding the human health and environmental impacts of products, processes, and activities. Includes primer on LCA and links to related materials.
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US EPA Office of Federal Activities - NEPA - About the agency's filing and review of US environmental impact statements (EISs), EPA compliance with NEPA, and technical assistance and capacity building for environmental compliance, enforcement, and impact assessment in other countries.
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