Open Directory - Science: Environment: Impact Assessment
- Organization brings together researchers, practitioners, and users of various types of impact assessments worldwide. Find organization information, EIA resources, and links to related sites. - Council on Environmental Quality's central information hub for the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act and the federal environmental impact assessment process, including environmental impact statements. - Comprehensive EIA resource for Canada, including EIA legislation, guidance, training opportunities, specific EIA reports and reviews, and EIA links. - Leiden university group, specializing in life cycle assessment and substance flow analysis. Provides information on the group, its ongoing projects and several downloadable papers and reports. - International EIA convention signed in 1991. Text, ratification status, implementation reports, and related resources. - Ivan Bortoluzzi's website includes introductory information on environmental analysis, methodologies for impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment, and links to laws and case studies from around the world. - The impacts of a land development project upon the environment can be assessed at many different levels and many assessment systems have been developed to do this. Provides background information and discusses methodologies regarding formal Environmental Impact Assessments. - Guide for consultants and planners in developing countries, from FAO. - Paper by Christopher Wood that reviews the EIA of developing countries against a set of robust evaluation criteria to determine their strengths and weaknesses. [PDF] - Regulations and related requirements, guidance for analyzing impacts, electronic copies of past state EISs, and downloadable forms. - Blog covering due diligence, all appropriate inquiry, environmental site assessment and brownsfield site information. - Research project funded by the European Commission with the aim of assessing the impact of technology development and deployment over the next 50 years. - Statute, guidelines, case law, FAQs, online archive of environmental assessment reports, and other resources related to the state impact assessment law. - Site established to promote the use of LCA to aid in understanding the human health and environmental impacts of products, processes, and activities. Includes primer on LCA and links to related materials. - About the agency's filing and review of US environmental impact statements (EISs), EPA compliance with NEPA, and technical assistance and capacity building for environmental compliance, enforcement, and impact assessment in other countries.
