Sentences with phrase «environmental impact assessment study»

An environmental impact assessment study is a key aspect of the operation of article 6 of the Habitats Directive.

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Long said fracking risked the possibility of «death by indecision» as the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC latEnvironmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC latenvironmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later this year.

The Principal Investigator of the study, Dr Felix Eigenbrod, Associate Professor (Spatial Ecology) at the University of Southampton's Centre for Biological Sciences, says: «The growing geographic disconnect between energy demand, the extraction and processing of resources, and the environmental impacts associated with energy production activities makes it crucial to factor global trade into sustainability assessments.

Zebrafish embryos are used for the assessment of chemicals and for investigations of environmental impact, so we hope that in future our study will contribute to an awareness of the need to incorporate Abcb4 transport processes in toxicological testing directives.»

The Overseas Development Administration, in consultation with other relevant government departments, is examining the documentation on the project, particularly the least - cost analysis study and the reports on safety and environmental impact assessment.

In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy analysis and exergetic efficiency analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.

The study, commissioned by CHEOPS - a perovskite research project co-funded by the European research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, is being conducted by SmartGreenScans, a CHEOPS member, specialising in Life - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxford PV.

He hopes this will facilitate further development of the wind project, including supporting the environmental assessments and interconnection studies needed to assess the impact of additional electricity on the grid.

Long and Iles (1997) point to the US Department of Transportation's Climatic Impact Assessment Program (aimed not at the greenhouse effect but aircraft emissions) for producing, in 1975, «the first assessment to focus on social and economic measures,» (p. 6) and the 1989 US Environmental Protection Agency study as «the first extensive appearance of an economic analysis of impacts.»

Considering the cumulative environmental impacts over the study period (the assumed service life of the building) allows researchers to make a more complete assessment.

As many comparative studies have done before, the analysis includes an assessment of the environmental impacts associated with the fuel cycle (primary production, extraction, transportation, refining, and vehicle operation) for each of the modes includes in the tool.

Numerous studies have tackled the future environmental impact of battery - electric vehicles; the resulting assessments are highly uncertain.

A separate study, published in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, found that Brazilian mega-dams flooded far larger areas than projected in the dams» environmental impact assessments, resulting in higher carbon emissions and economic losses.

The dissenter, Alan Carlin, works as a research analyst in Washington at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), which conducts a variety of economic analysis, including cost - benefit studies, risk assessment, and economic impact modeling.

Amid concerns about the ubiquitous use of glyphosate and scientific studies suggesting adverse health and environmental impacts, the NGOs wanted access to the information in the report that would allow them to check the assessment of the emissions into the environment from the product and their effect on the environment, namely the degree of purity of the active substance, the identity and quantities of the impurities present, the analytical profile of the batches used for testing, and the exact composition of the product developed.

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