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June Ang - 2005
Identify Environmental Aspects
Halo! It's me again. I have another problem in identifying environmental aspects. I hope i can get more clarification from here and i really appreciate your reply.
My condition:
I'm now going to conduct training for "identifying the environmental aspects & impacts". I already identified a list of aspects, impacts and significant aspects. And, now when i look back to what i'd identified, i would still doubt on the "environmental aspects' identified.
My approach is "process flowchart" by identify the inputs and outputs. While identify the aspects, i would consider those activity/operation, inputs and outputs that could generate an env impact.
My 1st question is: where should i stop? For example :
Activity 1 : Clearing vegetation
Inputs : Machinery
Outputs : Dust generation, waste generation
From the input, i could actually come out with another activity
Activity 2 : Use of machinery
Inputs : Fuel consumption
Outputs : Gas emission, noise generation.
Currently, i only stop at activity 1 which i identify the "use of machinery" as my environmental "aspect". My consideration when selecting an aspect is:
1) this aspect is large enough for meaningful examination and small enough to be understand.
2) this aspect is able to be controlled/ managed
So, what do you think????
My 2nd question is: some of the environmental issues related to the activity may not classified as input or output, but it actually a consequence resulted by the activity. For example:
The environmental issues concerning activity 1 :
- increased water runoff discharge
I still consider this issue as my output resulted from activity 1 and identify it as environmental aspect.
What is your opinion?
Can I come out with the following conclusions which will take as the basis principles for me to identify the aspect:
1. the aspect selected should be large enough for meaningful examination and small enough to be understand
2. an aspect should be something which we can control
3. the consequence which is environmental concern resulted from the activity can be considered as an aspect for the activity
I attended the relevant course before but i regret that i attended the course too earlier which i have no chance the ask about this.
Thanks for reading my question and thanks for any reply.
Halo! It's me again. I have another problem in identifying environmental aspects. I hope i can get more clarification from here and i really appreciate your reply.
My condition:
I'm now going to conduct training for "identifying the environmental aspects & impacts". I already identified a list of aspects, impacts and significant aspects. And, now when i look back to what i'd identified, i would still doubt on the "environmental aspects' identified.
My approach is "process flowchart" by identify the inputs and outputs. While identify the aspects, i would consider those activity/operation, inputs and outputs that could generate an env impact.
My 1st question is: where should i stop? For example :
Activity 1 : Clearing vegetation
Inputs : Machinery
Outputs : Dust generation, waste generation
From the input, i could actually come out with another activity
Activity 2 : Use of machinery
Inputs : Fuel consumption
Outputs : Gas emission, noise generation.
Currently, i only stop at activity 1 which i identify the "use of machinery" as my environmental "aspect". My consideration when selecting an aspect is:
1) this aspect is large enough for meaningful examination and small enough to be understand.
2) this aspect is able to be controlled/ managed
So, what do you think????
My 2nd question is: some of the environmental issues related to the activity may not classified as input or output, but it actually a consequence resulted by the activity. For example:
The environmental issues concerning activity 1 :
- increased water runoff discharge
I still consider this issue as my output resulted from activity 1 and identify it as environmental aspect.
What is your opinion?
Can I come out with the following conclusions which will take as the basis principles for me to identify the aspect:
1. the aspect selected should be large enough for meaningful examination and small enough to be understand
2. an aspect should be something which we can control
3. the consequence which is environmental concern resulted from the activity can be considered as an aspect for the activity
I attended the relevant course before but i regret that i attended the course too earlier which i have no chance the ask about this.
Thanks for reading my question and thanks for any reply.