EESC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Sustainable Development
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Concentrate on the science and scientific method involved in eia. How do you communicate your results and findings and where do these findings end up. Eia allows you to realize that there is more to protecting the environment than the innocent view of wanting to protect everything. You have to think beyond your report and into the future to see how you can mitigate negative impacts. Eia is a systematic process to identify, predict and evaluate the environmental effects of proposed actions and projects. We have large projects that we can undertake, and we need a way of finding the impacts of such large projects. Eia is good for the people who need to be taking good measures and steps. Eia is a process that helps the decision maker (mainly the government) to make decisions that are the best-case scenario. We need to use the scientific knowledge to convince non-science people about the impacts.
