environmental impact assessment

assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action
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environmental impact assessment

Summary

environmental impact assessment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (505 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • environmental impact assessment is a type of evaluation[2].
  • environmental impact assessment is a type of impact assessment[3].
  • environmental impact assessment is part of environmental assessment and monitoring[4].
  • environmental impact assessment is part of environmental management system[5].
  • environmental impact assessment's Commons category is recorded as Environmental impact assessment[6].
  • environmental impact assessment began on 1960[7].
  • environmental impact assessment's has cause is recorded as environmentalism[8].
  • environmental impact assessment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Environmental impact assessment[9].
  • environmental impact assessment's main subject is environmental issue[10].
  • environmental impact assessment's described by source is recorded as International Association for Impact Assessment[11].
  • environmental impact assessment's has effect is recorded as environmental impact assessment report[12].
  • environmental impact assessment's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3643[13].
  • environmental impact assessment's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'EIA'}[14].
  • environmental impact assessment's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'UVP'}[15].
  • environmental impact assessment's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'ОВОС'}[16].
  • environmental impact assessment's class of object is recorded as environmental effects[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include evaluation[2] and impact assessment[3].

Use and Application

Part of include environmental assessment and monitoring[4] and environmental management system[5].

Why It Matters

environmental impact assessment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (505 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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  13. [14] . eib.org. eib.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main subject environmental issue
    Start time +1960-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Class of object(s) of occurrence environmental effects
    Subclass of evaluation, impact assessment
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 28446, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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