Environmental impact assessment
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Environmental assessment(EA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive negative) of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term "environmental impact assessment" (EIA) is usually used when applied to actual projects by individuals or companies and the term "strategic environmental assessment" (SEA) applies to policies, plans and programmes most often proposed by organs of state.
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See also
- Economic impact analysis
- Environmental good
- Environmental impact design
- Environmental indicator
- Environmental policy of the European Union
- Equator Principles
- Global environmental analysis
- Healthy development measurement tool
- Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol
- Leopold matrix
- List of international environmental agreements
- Natural landscape
- Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
- Social Impact Assessment
- Strategic Environmental Assessment
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Sustainability appraisal
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