Enhancing impact: visualization of an integrated impact assessment strategy

The environmental impact assessment process is over 40 years old and has dramatically expanded. Topics, such as social, health and human rights impact are now included. The main body of an impact analysis is generally hundreds of pages long and supported by countless technical appendices. For large,...

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Published inGeospatial health Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 303 - 306
Main Authors Krieger, Gary R, Bouchard, Michel A, de Sa, Isabel Marques, Paris, Isabelle, Balge, Zachary, Williams, Dane, Singer, Burton H, Winkler, Mirko S, Utzinger, Jürg
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Italian
Published Italy PAGEPress Publications 01.05.2012
Subjects
Environmental Monitoring - methods
extractive industry, impact assessment, remote sensing, spatio-temporal visualization
Geographic Information Systems
Geography
Humans
Industry
Mining
Remote Sensing Technology - methods
Tajikistan
Time Factors
Visual Fields
Tajikistan
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Summary:The environmental impact assessment process is over 40 years old and has dramatically expanded. Topics, such as social, health and human rights impact are now included. The main body of an impact analysis is generally hundreds of pages long and supported by countless technical appendices. For large, oil/gas, mining and water resources projects both the volume and technical sophistication of the reports has far exceeded the processing ability of host communities. Instead of informing and empowering, the reports are abstruse and overwhelming. Reinvention is required. The development of a visual integrated impact assessment strategy that utilizes remote sensing and spatial analyses is described.
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ISSN:1827-1987
1970-7096
DOI:10.4081/gh.2012.149