Environmental Impact Assessment
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Earth & Environmental Sciences Dictionary
Definition
An environmental science concept defining interactions among organisms, resources, and human pressures. It governs how disturbances and management actions change ecosystem structure, function, and service delivery. It does not ensure desired outcomes without monitoring, enforcement, and adaptive management of pressures.
Environmental Impact Assessment
Commerce, Trade & Industry Dictionary
Definition
A systematic, documented process for identifying, predicting, evaluating and communicating the likely significant environmental effects of a proposed project, plan or policy, typically applied before decisions are made and including scoping, baseline description, impact prediction, mitigation measures, and monitoring to inform permitting or decision‑making.