- "Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action."
The process of evaluating and predicting the potential environmental effects of proposed projects, policies, or activities, and identifying mitigation measures.
- "The term 'environmental impact assessment' is usually used when applied to actual projects by individuals or companies."
- "The term 'strategic environmental assessment' (SEA) applies to policies, plans and programs most often proposed by organs of state."
- "It is a tool of environmental management forming a part of project approval and decision-making."
- "Environmental assessments may be governed by rules of administrative procedure regarding public participation and documentation of decision making, and may be subject to judicial review."
- "The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that decision-makers consider the environmental impacts when deciding whether or not to proceed with a project."
- "The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) defines an environmental impact assessment as 'the process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to major decisions being taken and commitments made'."
- "EIAs are unique in that they do not require adherence to a predetermined environmental outcome."
- "Decision-makers need to account for environmental values in their decisions and to justify those decisions in light of detailed environmental studies and public comments on the potential environmental impacts."
- "The assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects."
- "Policies, plans and programs most often proposed by organs of state."
- "It is a tool of environmental management forming a part of project approval and decision-making."
- "Environmental assessments may be governed by rules of administrative procedure regarding public participation and documentation of decision making, and may be subject to judicial review."
- "The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that decision-makers consider the environmental impacts when deciding whether or not to proceed with a project."
- "The process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals."
- "EIAs are unique in that they do not require adherence to a predetermined environmental outcome."
- "Decision-makers need to justify those decisions in light of detailed environmental studies and public comments on the potential environmental impacts."
- "The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) defines an environmental impact assessment."
- "The process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to major decisions being taken and commitments made."
- "Decision-makers are required to account for environmental values in their decisions."