ENSC 503 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gross Domestic Product, Social Impact Assessment, The Cheviot

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: ENSC 503
• Professor: William Holden

Document Summary

Please list, and discuss, four tasks, or activities, relevant to scoping. Screening: the fundamental mechanism used to limit the application of a full environmental assessment to those which significant impacts are likely. Scoping: mechanism to determine which impacts and issues should be addressed in a specific assessment. Five types of boundaries: spatial, temporal, jurisdictional, ecosystem, social. A three step process may be used in determining whether environmental effects are adverse; list and discuss those three steps. The environment is a complex system and five principles need to be taken into consideration for impact prediction. The no action alternative is important in an eia because it considers the state of the environment without the proposed project and relates to the rational/need of the project. Nine impacts: reversible vs irreversible, short or long term, local or widespread, beneficial or detrimental, reparable or irreparable, developmental or operational, accidental or planned, temporary or routine, single or cumulative.