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Any change in the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or in part a result of the environmental aspects of an organization; Environmental aspect understood as the element of the activities, products or services that can interact with the environment.
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Study that includes the preliminary design of a project, which involves the determination of technological requirements and the selection of technological alternatives.
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It is a comprehensive financial results, economic and social analysis of an investment (given a technological option - pre-feasibility study).
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The general guidelines that the environmental authority designated for the development and implementation of environmental studies to be submitted to the competent environmental authority.
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It is the science that studies the origin and formation of groundwater, forms of deposit, diffusion, movement, speed and reserves, their interaction with soil and rock, its state (liquid, solid and gas) and properties (physical , chemical, biological and radioactive); and the conditions that determine the actions of their use, regulation and evacuation.
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They are a very simple identification method, which is used for preliminary evaluations. They serve primarily to draw attention to the most important impacts that may occur as a result of the project.
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It is the gaseous envelope, about 2,000 km thick, surrounding the earth. The most important layer is the troposphere because it contains the air we breathe and she meteorological phenomena affecting climate occur.
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It is the science that studies the population, both in quantitative and qualitative aspects.
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They are preliminary and valuable qualitative methods to assess the various alternatives for the same project.
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It is the combination of probability and (s) consequence (s) of a specific hazardous event occurs.
