Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Due Diligence

Saleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural resource development. The impacts of extraction can be highly complex and impact air, water, and soil at different time scales, so these assessment processes examine the possible consequences of the implementation of projects, programs, and policies. Examples are given of efforts to assess projects and how it is done.

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