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Impact Hypothesis

General description

Technical description

General description

Table name: Impact Hypothesis

This dataset is part of INSROP project II.5.10 - Environmental Impact Assessment.

Project supervisor: Jørn Thomassen, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.

For the EIA purpose impact factors have been identified on the basis of coarse described INSROP activities or scenarios, and corresponding impact hypothesis have been described and evaluated through a categorisation in four categories.

A. The hypothesis is assumed not to be valid.

B. The hypothesis is valid and already verified. Research to validate or invalidate the hypothesis is not required. Surveys, monitoring, and/or management measures can possibly be recommended.

C. The hypothesis is assumed to be valid. Research, monitoring or surveys is recommended to validate or invalidate the hypothesis. Mitigating measures can be recommended if the hypothesis is validated.

D. The hypothesis may be avlid, but is not worth testing for professional, logistic, economic or ethical reasons, or because it is assumed to be of minor environmental influence only or insignificant value for decision making.

In INSROP phase II, a re-evaluation of all impact hypothesis were done. Only hypothesis in category B and C are listed and brought further to the analysis of impact assessments.

For further information see INSROP Working Paper No. xx. (Thomassen et al. - A guide to EIA implementation in INSROP) and INSROP Working Paper No. xx . (Thomassen et al - Environmental Impact Statement)

Technical description

Table source file name: ihno.txt

Path: <NSR_DATA>\envimpas

Table type: DText table.

* Impact Hypothesis

102 records, 2 descriptive fields.

Fields: [<Name>] -- <Alias> (type of field)

[Ihno] -- "Ihno" (String, max. 151 characters)

[Impact hypotheses] -- "Impact hypotheses" (String, max. 314 characters)