Procedure for impact assessing on the environment

Abstract

Today, around the world, much attention is paid to ecology and compliance with environmental standards. Any human activity should have minimal impact on the environment, and now it's no one's doubts. To determine the degree of influence, there is an environmental assessment - a set of measures designed to confirm the safety of facilities and production processes. Environmental expertise can be considered as a “preventive control”, that is, a procedure that prevents investment and the realization of projects that are detrimental to the environment. This article attempts to harmonize the approaches to the impact assessment on environment available in national and world practice. The presented methodological aspects of impact assessment are based on the definition of following three parameters: the spatial scale of influence; the temporary scale of influence; the intensity of influence. Each of the parameters is evaluated on a certain scale, using the relevant criteria developed and presented for each grading scale. The semi-quantitative impact assessment method described in this article is based on an expert evaluation of specialists from different companies in Ukraine and employees of research institutions.

Keywords

• impact assessing on the environment
• project
• environmental expertise
• Harrington function
• impact scale
• scale of assessment
• significance criteria