An approach to noise impact assessment for long‐term construction.

2010 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 1829-1829
Author(s):  
Frank Babic
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Noise Impact

scholarly journals Integrated Impact Assessment for Sustainable Hydropower Planning in the Vjosa Catchment (Greece, Albania)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1514
Author(s):  
Rebecca Peters ◽  
Jürgen Berlekamp ◽  
Ana Lucía ◽  
Vittoria Stefani ◽  
Klement Tockner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Hydropower Plants ◽  
Hydropower Planning

Mitigating climate change, while human population and economy are growing globally, requires a bold shift to renewable energy sources. Among renewables, hydropower is currently the most economic and efficient technique. However, due to a lack of impact assessments at the catchment scale in the planning process, the construction of hydropower plants (HPP) may have unexpected ecological, socioeconomic, and political ramifications in the short and in the long term. The Vjosa River, draining parts of Northern Greece and Albania, is one of the few predominantly free-flowing rivers left in Europe; at the same time its catchment is identified an important resource for future hydropower development. While current hydropower plants are located along tributaries, planned HPP would highly impact the free-flowing main stem. Taking the Vjosa catchment as a case study, the aim of this study was to develop a transferable impact assessment that ranks potential hydropower sites according to their projected impacts on a catchment scale. Therefore, we integrated established ecological, social, and economic indicators for all HPP planned in the river catchment, while considering their capacity, and developed a ranking method based on impact categories. For the Vjosa catchment, ten hydropower sites were ranked as very harmful to the environment as well as to society. A sensitivity analysis revealed that this ranking is dependent upon the selection of indicators. Small HPP showed higher cumulative impacts than large HPP, when normalized to capacity. This study empowers decision-makers to compare both the ranked impacts and the generated energy of planned dam projects at the catchment scale.

Long-term and multilevel impact assessment of the 2015–2016 El Niño on a sandy beach of the southwestern Atlantic

2021 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
pp. 145689
Author(s):  
Gabriela Jorge-Romero ◽  
Eleonora Celentano ◽  
Diego Lercari ◽  
Leonardo Ortega ◽  
Juan A. Licandro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
El Niño ◽  
Sandy Beach ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Southwestern Atlantic

scholarly journals Maintenance of a High-Voltage Overhead Transmission Line: Sustainability and Noise Impact Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edoardo Piana ◽  
Fabio Bignucolo ◽  
Alberto Donini ◽  
Roberto Spezie
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Line ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
High Voltage ◽  
Overhead Transmission Line ◽  
Noise Impact

A long-term, integrated impact assessment of alternative building energy code scenarios in China

Energy Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 626-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sha Yu ◽  
Jiyong Eom ◽  
Meredydd Evans ◽  
Leon Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Integrated Impact Assessment

APHEKOM: HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF SHORT AND LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO OZONE AND PM IN 25 EUROPEAN CITIES

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathilde Pascal ◽  
Christophe Declercq ◽  
Magali Corso ◽  
Chiara Badaloni ◽  
Giulia Cesaroni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact Assessment ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Short And Long Term
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