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5.0 IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS
5.1 OVERVIEW
This part of the report is concerned with the identification and assessment of potential
positive and negative environmental and social impacts of the proposed project. A
combination of two criteria has been used to determine the environmental significance
of predicted impacts: the intensity of the potential impact of the project component and
the importance (value) of the environmental component (Table: 5.1). It should be noted
however that the actual extent and intensity of impacts might be affected by the project
planning and implementation procedures. A summary of the impacts is presented in
Table 5.2, at the end of the assessment.
Table 5.1: Criteria Used to Determine the Significance of Environmental Effects
INTENSITY OF
IMPACTS
VALUE PLACED ON THE COMPONENT
Legally Considered important but Considered
protected not legally protected important
MAJOR Significant Significant Insignificant
not
MODERATE Significant Significant Insignificant
MINOR Significant Significant/ Insignificant Insignificant
The intensity of the impact has been qualified as: Minor, Moderate or Major. To make
this judgment, the following factors were taken into consideration:
• Magnitude of project intervention;
• Frequency of project intervention;
• Irreversibility of impact of the intervention;
• Size of the area affected by the intervention.
The importance of the concerned environmental component is related to the value
placed upon it by the public, environmental experts and the international community. It
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