EIAs :O

EIA's stands for Environmental Impact Assessments, and they are used and followed to obtain data, analyze it, and conclude what should be made with it to lower negative impact.

Environmental Impact assessments must:

•       include a section that identifies the impact.
• ·    Try to predict or to estimate the value or reach of this impact.
• ·    Assess or limit an impact.

This assessment made by answering several questions, such as: 

• What is the problem?
• What are the objectives to be achieved?
• What are the policy options?
• What are the possible impacts and how are policy options compared at the end?

The main goal of EIA's is to ensure a balance between economic, environmental and social impacts of new policy proposals, always avoiding unintended and unexpected side effects of new regulation and legislation.

History of EIAs

In 1969 National Environment Policy Act adopted by other countries in order to access environmental resources as wealth and with the same importance as economic and other resources.