We have reviewed the way that Impact Assessment is being applied to European Commission policies, and evaluated the Commission's recently published Impact Assessment Guidelines. Based on an analysis of recent meta-studies, the Commission's Guidelines for Impact Assessment and some case studies, we set out some core principles to guide future Impact Assessments, including transparency, quality c...

The monitoring and evaluation of air quality is a topic great global interest as, with the decline quality, there are negative effects on human health ecosystems. Thus, purpose this paper was to evaluate over 11 years, in period 2011–2021, four cities Romania, reported as most polluted, namely, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Timisoara. Pollutants included arsenic, carbon monoxide, PM2.5. measured c...

Equitable access to water and sanitation is still a challenge worldwide in Brazil. In this sense, the concept of environmental justice was used paper as basis for establishing an Integrated Territorial Assessment Model Environmental Justice Applied Sanitation. This research aims give scientific support State Government improve public policies promote universalization services established by Sus...

One of the primary purposes for preparing an environmental assessment (EA) is to determine whether or not a proposed action will have a significant impact on the human environment and therefore require the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS). As defined in 40 CFR 1508.13, a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) is a document that briefly presents the reasons why a federal ...

Sustaining urban environmental quality requires effective policy measures that integrate local monitoring and contextualized high-resolution modelling with actionable scenarios. Knowledgeable decision making in this field can nowadays be supported by an array of atmospheric models, but their transfer into Integrated Urban hydrometeorological, climate Services (IUS) remains challenging. Methodol...

1Toxicity Assessment Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA 2 Integrated Systems Toxicology Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangl...