Environmental impact assessment | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/05/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_assessment


00:01:51 1 History
00:03:10 2 Methods
00:04:41 3 Follow-up
00:05:57 4 Around the world
00:06:07 4.1 Australia
00:07:59 4.1.1 The Commonwealth Level
00:11:32 4.1.2 The State and Territory Level
00:11:42 4.1.2.1 Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
00:12:43 4.1.2.2 New South Wales (NSW)
00:13:30 4.1.2.3 Northern Territory (NT)
00:14:00 4.1.2.4 Queensland (QLD)
00:15:20 4.1.2.5 Tasmania (TAS)
00:16:04 4.1.2.6 Victoria (VIC)
00:16:29 4.1.2.7 Western Australia (WA)
00:16:58 4.2 Canada
00:19:16 4.2.1 Opposition
00:23:32 4.3 China
00:26:10 4.4 Egypt
00:28:19 4.5 EU
00:32:53 4.5.1 Annexed projects
00:33:49 4.5.2 The Netherlands
00:34:45 4.6 Hong Kong
00:35:49 4.7 Iraq
00:40:09 4.8 India
00:43:58 4.9 Korea, South
00:44:13 4.10 Malaysia
00:44:38 4.11 Nepal
00:47:08 4.12 New Zealand
00:48:27 4.13 Russian Federation
00:49:19 4.13.1 Federal Service for monitoring the use of natural resources
00:50:12 4.13.2 Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Control
00:51:02 4.14 Sri Lanka
00:51:27 4.15 Ukraine
00:52:23 4.16 United States
00:54:13 4.16.1 Environmental assessment
00:56:18 4.16.1.1 Content
00:57:43 4.16.1.2 Structure
00:58:34 4.16.1.3 Procedure
00:59:48 4.16.2 Environmental impact statement
01:01:46 5 Transboundary application
01:04:19 6 Criticism
01:07:37 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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Environmental assessment (EA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and 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. 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, but rather they require decision makers 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.