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, 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.
NewFields, LLC, Denver, CO 80202, USA. gkrieger@newfields.com
Gary R
GR
Krieger
Michel A
MA
Bouchard
Isabel Marques
IM
de Sa
Isabelle
I
Paris
Zachary
Z
Balge
Dane
D
Williams
Burton H
BH
Singer
Mirko S
MS
Winkler
Jürg
J
Utzinger
D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008906:Mining; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000379:methods*; D013620:Tajikistan; D013997:Time Factors; D014794:Visual Fields