ERS215 Study Guide - Final Guide: Adaptive Management, Life-Cycle Assessment, Osmosis

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A follow-up is the monitoring and evaluation of the impacts of a project or plan (that has been subject to ea) for management of, and communication about, the environmental performance of that project or plan. It is the element that transforms ea from a static to a dynamic process the link between ea and life-cycle assessment. Compliance audits: verifies if projects are implemented and are being operated in accordance with approval conditions. Prediction audits: compares predicted impacts with actual consequences of the project: promote an adaptive management approach, need for adaptive management in ea: uncertainties and imprecision of predictions. Buckley (1991) 44% of testable predictions considered accurate". Wood et al (2000) 56% accurate" or nearly accurate": holling (1978) and beanlands and dunkier (1983) Impact predictions as scientific hypothesis that need to be tested: feedback from follow-up opportunity to respond when changes in an activity or in the environment warrant adaptation, improve scientific and technical knowledge, follow-up and its learning function.