By increasing the role for regional and / or
cumulative impact assessments, environmental concerns raised by Indigenous communities (and others) can be more effectively addressed.
A Commons debate on the need for
a cumulative impact assessment of welfare reforms saw MPs from across the country sharing stories of how the changes affected people in their constituencies.
Closing the debate, minister for disabled people Mike Penning stated that
a cumulative impact assessment would be «very complex».
In a statement, the LSC says: «We had already committed to publishing
a cumulative impact assessment alongside our consultation on best value tendering.
Not exact matches
The approval follows a 12 - month environmental
assessment of the project that looked at the adequacy of emissions estimates and air quality modelling,
cumulative air emissions, potential health
impacts and worker health issues.
One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion
assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing
impact sensors designed to monitor head
impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and
cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk
impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion
assessment.
The results from her study were incorporated into a vulnerability
assessment framework to investigate the
cumulative impact of multiple climatic processes on sea turtles nesting grounds.
State departments of education should conduct annual
assessments on the
cumulative impact of charter schools on traditional school districts (Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2014).
Considering the
cumulative environmental
impacts over the study period (the assumed service life of the building) allows researchers to make a more complete
assessment.
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Assessments like this one, however, are based on inadequate studies that contradict easily observable facts and ignore up - to - date science and
cumulative impacts.
More broadly, draft White House guidance to federal agencies on environmental
impact assessment of proposed federal actions such as energy development permits, which has languished for four years, could move the system toward analyzing specific proposed projects within a larger context of
cumulative global warming
impacts.
Mandatory regional
impact assessments occur where
cumulative impacts may
impact federal lands, marine areas or federal interests.