Pathology: Environmental Assessment

1) Environmental Assessment

The major strategy that has been widely practiced all over the world to keep the system from becoming pathological is environmental assessment. Activities such as monitoring of pollutants, endangered species, health status of populations, productivity, biodiversity and other properties of ecological formations on different spatial and temporal scales. Most of the authorities have showed their concerns about the environments as the changes in the environment are affecting their health and livelihood as well. Environmental assessment comprises various kind of assessment which are differ in terms of scope of assessment, investigative tools used, and the way in which results are presented. There are many types of environmental

This analysis may be conducted when damages has occurred or is alleged to have occurred to the health, property values, income or general values of the community which may arises from some particular actions of humans. However, the assignment of liability seems to be more difficult sometimes due to the presence of synergistic effects and other forms of interactive complexity in the systems. At that point, the application of this type of assessment is not encouraged. Besides that, justification or rejection of proposed change is also one of the environmental assessment types. Any proposed change in land or resource use, economic activity, or demographic policy should be fully studied and assessed before further carried out. The main consideration should be given by questioning the necessity of the project as well as their importance to peoples’ lives. The higher authorities should also study the net risk or harm to the people in the community of the proposed change. So, in the case of justifying or rejecting some type of change, conflict focuses about the equity and justice in the

This strategy can be defined as the act of any monitoring efforts that involves nonpaid community volunteers who collect information about local bodies. Surveys will be conducted by those volunteers to collect data by using standardized questionnaires. By using the collected data, they will organize them typically and decisions to monitor will be taken and executing the actions. Existences of the volunteers for the water monitoring are very significant as no age, race, class or gender is required for the groups. This effort is considered as a recognized strategy as it is small, low budget and often receive support from local funding sources. The collected data are very useful for research, planning, restoration, enforcement and legislation. Generally, most of the monitoring groups were begun to monitor only one body of water. Initially, only a few parameters or indicators were used to monitor the water quality, buy over time may include additional indicators in their assessment. The parameters that are commonly monitored across all water bodies are temperature, dissolved oxygen and pH. This analysis is seems to be not specific as the decision of monitoring is simply taken without any developed goals, objectives, or even a monitoring plan. Thus, this strategy can be improved by creating contacts between volunteer monitoring groups, agencies and other organizations.