Environmental impact assessment as part of the feasibility study of projects

Abstract

The tasks of environmental assessment of projects are to determine quantitative criteria for decision-making on the  admissibility or inadmissibility of the project, to ensure the choice of options and types of planned economic activities with the  lowest environmental and social costs, to obtain quantitative criteria for assessing the effectiveness of environmental measures.  project implementation. Environmental assessment accompanies all stages of the project-investment cycle. One of the main  principles of evaluating the effectiveness of projects is the inclusion of environmental results and costs in the cash flows that are  taken into account in the analysis of the project. According to the traditional cost-benefit economic analysis, a project is considered  effective and feasible if the benefits outweigh the costs. The paper presents modified methods of expert and environmental  assessment that accompany all stages of the project-investment cycle of the project. The authors propose harmonization of  approaches to environmental impact assessment, which are used in national and world practice. The methodology is shown, which is  aimed at generalizing the Ukrainian and international experience in EIA and specifying the evaluation criteria. Developed and  proposed methodological aspects of environmental impact assessment can be used to develop a final EIA. The study describes a  comprehensive impact assessment for any components of the environment. The proposed criteria allow us to draw specific  conclusions on the assessment of the impact on each environment, which is a priority in the environmental assessment.