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Personal environmental impact accounting (PEIA) is a computer software-based methodology developed in 1992 by Don Lotter [1] [2] [3] for quantifying an individual's impact on the environment via analysis of answers to an extensive quantity-based questionnaire that the individual fills out regarding their lifestyle. The questions are arranged in ...
If the assessment is favourable, and the proposed policy is enacted—after a suitable length of time for the policy to gain traction—it might be followed by an impact evaluation; ideally, assessed impacts before the fact and evaluated impacts after the fact are not wildly divergent. In some cases, impact becomes politicized due to a change ...
An important problem concerning technology assessment is the so-called Collingridge dilemma: on the one hand, impacts of new technologies cannot be easily predicted until the technology is extensively developed and widely used; on the other hand, control or change of a technology is difficult as soon as it is widely used. It emphasizes on the ...
Other authors make a distinction between "impact evaluation" and "impact assessment." "Impact evaluation" uses empirical techniques to estimate the effects of interventions and their statistical significance, whereas "impact assessment" includes a broader set of methods, including structural simulations and other approaches that cannot test for ...
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is a scientific journal in the area of impact assessment, published by Taylor and Francis. The journal is associated with the organization International Association for Impact Assessment. [1] It is edited by Thomas Fischer from University of Liverpool. [2]
The best available technology or best available techniques (BAT) is the technology approved by legislators or regulators for meeting output standards for a particular process, such as pollution abatement. Similar terms are best practicable means or best practicable environmental option. BAT is a moving target on practices, since developing ...
The European Standard EN 62262 — the equivalent of international standard IEC 62262 (2002) — relates to IK (impact protection) ratings. [1] This is an international numeric classification for the degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment against external mechanical impacts.
[3] [19] IAIA prepared a monograph on social impact assessment for the National Marine Fisheries Service in 1993/1994. [20] Delaware Health and Social Services cited an IAIA paper in its fact sheet on health impact assessment. [21] The World Health Organization lists the IAIA among the "Other organizational links" in the arena of impact ...