Difference between revisions of "Impact assessment"

Revision as of 08:26, 18 June 2009

A combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, program or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population. Includes benefits in addition to risks. Contrary to risk assessment impact assessment includes damages which are certain, i.e. have a probability of 1.^[1]

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Scope

Definition

• EU Guidelines for impact assessment and Annexes
• Impact assessment guidelines in the European Commission
  • Good practices
  • Impact inventory
  • Model inventory
  • Handbook

←1: The whole IA Tools handbook should be copied and reorganised in Opasnet. This is possible due to the licence that makes it possible to use material as long as it is properly referenced.^[2] --Jouni 11:26, 18 June 2009 (EEST)

• Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment Best Practice

Result

Procedure

See also

• PUrE Sustainability Assessment Software - Launch Event 24 Jun 2009
• Pollutants in the Urban Environment (PUrE) 2003-2009
• PUrE project overview
• Sustainabilitylive! exhibition in Birmingham, 19-21 May 2009
• Environmental impact assessment in Wikipedia in english, in Finnish
• Erik Lebret’s presentation about SP1 in Intarese annual meeting Nov 2008
• International Association for Impact Assessment
• Environmental impact assessment (YVA) in Finland (by the Finnish Environment Institute)
  • Assessment of YVA assessments (in Finnish)
• Guidelines from the Polluntants in the Urban Environment (PUrE) project

References