The rapid development
of economies is having an increasingly widespread, direct, or indirect impact
on all aspects of people's lives. Environmental protection, like energy
conservation, food safety, and public safety, has increasingly attracted the
attention of the whole society.
Environmental Site
Assessment (ESA) grasps
the site's environmental status through investigation and evaluation,
identifies potential pollutants, sources of pollutants and potential impacts,
establishes remediation goals and plans, and is used to guide remediation
procedures.
The environmental
consulting area grows more and more every day. Along with the awareness of
people and companies and this also extends to institutions and even
governments. Do you know what the purpose of consulting in this sector is?
Assess and analyze the damage that a project, occasion, or circumstance can
cause to the planet/society.
When a consultancy is
hired, it has the duty to analyze the company's day-to-day and its impacts. A
parallel is drawn with the rules and laws so that everything is followed. So,
in this way, the environment does not suffer from the actions.
Those who suffer from
these actions are usually fauna, water, flora, land, or air. This is bad for
the environment and for the company generating the problem. Thus, it is
necessary to be within the environmental legislation to not violate any
socio-environmental norms. Companies that are committed to the environment are
best seen in the social environment. Such fact adds value to the brand and
prominence to the products.
Sustainable
development should not be conceived as a goal to be achieved but as a set of
conditions that must be respected in decisions about the transformation of the
planet.
The environmental
assessment includes both the strategic environmental assessment and the
environmental impact assessment. The site environmental assessment activities
in the United States have their deep legal background and have mandatory
requirements in the protection and reuse of land resources.
The environmental
impact assessment method introduced in 2003 extends the scope of environmental
impact assessment from construction projects to planned projects. It is
required that any planning and potential construction activities should first
analyze the possible harmful effects of the planning or construction activities
themselves and the possibility of the project after being put into use.
For environmental
pollution, assess and select appropriate pollution prevention measures to
prevent and mitigate environmental pollution and harm to human health. The
original land users and owners should bear the costs of site environmental
assessment and necessary soil remediation to ensure the soil environment The
quality is maintained at an acceptable level.
The main objective of
the environmental site assessment is to record the environmental conditions of
the target site by conducting an assessment, including issues related to
historical and current activities and the potential environmental liabilities
of the target site.
The ultimate goal is
to determine the known and suspicious impacts of past and current activities on
the Soil and Groundwater
Environment quality on the site.
The implementation of
the first and second stage environmental site assessments is carried out by
experts in accordance with the international Environmental Site Assessment
Standards.
