Impact assessment

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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.

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Definition

• EU Guidelines for impact assessment and Annexes
• Impact assessment guidelines in the European Commission
  • Good practices
  • Impact inventory
  • Model inventory
  • Handbook
• Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment Best Practice

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