I am interested in what people say about this problem.

Depends on who is asking the question. The EU has extremely specific Ideas about what Impact Assessment can entail and Environmental Evaluations are just one subcategory of IAs . On the other hand the terms are often more defined by the minds of the persons asking you to establish one or the other ;) . Most people are not really clear on the boundaries between IA, SEA (socio-economic analysis), LCA (life cycle assessment) etc.

Per EU definition IA can also have social, economical, legal, human health, environmental and political dimensions > depends on the topic and the task ;)

Considering also what EU defines as Diesner already explained, the first request (Post Impact assessment) pointed not only to the soil condition after the spill but to eco social impact in extended and possible economic terms, ideally you should have produced a monetary evaluation, maybe you did not produce it, then they re-phrase as "Environmental Evaluation Review", to mean that an overall assessment of the impact not only on soil but other aspect of the environment ( ideally in term of environmental services) with related socio economic fallout is requested.

If you did your Post impact assessment for supporting compensations, you should have detailed all the cost involved direct and indirect, the difficult in this case is to agree on the boundaries, how far you can go.

I agree with Diesner and also ask you to better define both - Environmental Evaluation Review and Post Impact Assessment. The review of an evaluation can embrace technical and managerial aspects, it is not clear just through the given name. So, it can be evaluated routines and indicators of performance, directly regarding environmental variables. Post Impact Assessment is similar to environmental monitoring, it is linked to the effectiveness assessment of the impact assessment itself. Not sure whether I was clear. Regards.

In order to evaluate the effective of remediation work done by 2004 and 2008 the post impact assessment needed to be updated with in the affected environment.,

The assessment should cover aquatic/marine organisms, soil and its oriented., please make sure is there any threat to the wildlife after oil spill, make a population statistics before and after oil spill.,

“Environmental Evaluation Review” and “Post Impact assessment” of crude oil polluted soil are two, first is a report with works carried out for the project mentioned above with objectives oriented, target group orientd and participitory, so the first bones relative to the side of which you report for work done, so is the work done, and if you look through the eyes of a logframe, while the second work to be done to carry out impact assessment for the work done.

In the first you can prepare a report and it will be prepare step by step on the state environmental objectively verifiable indicators achieved, impact environmental objectively verifiable indicators achieved and pressuret environmental objectively verifiable indicators achieved (it is my personal experinece), based in your project objective,

Post assessment identifies actual impacts during and after implementation, to enable corrective action to be taken if necessary, and to provide information for improving the design of future interventions. The stages in the project cycle where impact assessment needs consideration are .

A distinction can be made between two separate but interlinked levels:

• Internal monitoring and evaluation for ongoing learning, through for example the integration of specific impact indicators into existing management information systems, which makes information immediately available to staff;

External impact assessment, often involving independent investigators. Such assessments produce reports for specific purposes, such as poverty impact assessment, regulatory impact assessment, social impact assessment or health impact assessment. Certain types of ex ante assessment may be part of the approval process for certain types of intervention, including environmental impact assessment and economic impact assessment (cost-benefit analysis). These may contain their own ex post monitoring activities. Separate ex post assessments may be undertaken or commissioned for any particular intervention or set of interventions, to provide fuller information than may be available from routine monitoring and evaluation.

In the context of sustainable development, the social, economic and environmental impacts of an intervention are all interlinked. The various types of impact assessment may therefore need to be combined in an integrated impact assessment, whose nature will vary according to the type of intervention, and the aims and cost-effectiveness of the overall impact assessment package.

Great answer, Dr. Lushaj. I would add, dear Dennis, that wether you have some confidence with your customer (company), you could ask him/her directly what kind of work do they expect from you. There is a frigthening possibilitie of doing your work correctly, and after that your customer is not the kind of work he/she expected, because some trouble in communicate it to you.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the technical administrative procedure that serves to identify, manage and interpret the environmental impacts that occur in a project environment. The purpose of this procedure is that the competent authority may accept, reject or modify it.

One of the activities of the Environmental Impact Assessment is the realization of the EIS (Environmental Impact Study) by the promoter and its presentation to the decision-making body. Extends into a public participation process and concludes with the issuance of the EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) by the Environmental Authority.

Therefore environmental assessment review report should be a technical report on all environmental effects of pollution. In order that it may be the environmental impact assessment.

You have to make the classification of environmental impacts, Specification and comparison of environmental impact relationships negative / positive among alternatives.

An example of the different models or methods identified for each case are as follows:

i) One very simple, not systematized: Leopold matrix, which is a method of

identification.

Thank you all, i quite appreciate your contributions

Dennis Edem

Please, I was and am interested in what people say about this problem, because I work as a researcher and at the same time as a lecturer about them, have a good luck!

Thank you Prof

dear Dennis Edem ! your work is an appraciable. As I am also working on such type of work if you have some new findings kindly update me

Dear Dennis Edem,

Environmental Assessment review and post impact Assessment are two different aspects and are very distinctive in nature. If your would like to know more about it you may contact me on my E-mail [email protected]. Broadly, it involves the ecological aspects and biochemical interactions etc. Therefore, you can send me a main and I can guide with more details.

Dear CS, the issue is that, i double as a team leader & soil expert. I intend to contract experts in; socio-economics, health, ecology, geotechnic,GIS, hydrology, aquaculture and air quality. Am i in order ? What is the methodology (for PIA ) & the nature of report i should expect from these experts?