Environmental assessment

Japanese: environmental assessment(英語表記)environmentalassessment
Environmental assessment

...When considering plans or actions that affect the environment necessary for humans to live a healthy life (such as coastal reclamation work or urban development plans), various alternatives are considered, and their impacts on the environment are predicted, evaluated, and compared. As a prerequisite for environmental impact assessment, the investigation and evaluation of the geology, hydrology, vegetation, and other ecological characteristics of the area is sometimes called environmental assessment (EA). Environmental destruction causes problems for human life, but recovery and relief after the fact are difficult.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "environmental assessment" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人間が健康な生活を営むに必要な環境に影響を与える計画や行為(たとえば海岸埋立工事,都市開発計画)を考えるに際し,各種の代替案を考え,それらが環境に及ぼす影響を予測・評価して比較検討すること。環境影響評価の前提として,地域の地質,水文,植生その他の生態的特性を調査し評価することを環境評価environmental assessment(略称EA)と呼ぶこともある。環境の破壊は人間の生活に支障をきたすが,事後的な回復・救済は困難である。…

※「environmental assessment」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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