Project management—a discipline that emerged in the mid-20th century—is the application of knowledge, skills, and techniques to realize projects and their intended benefits efficiently and effectively over a specified period within scope, resources, and other limitations. Conventionally, project management theory (or science) has to do with the organizing of activities into five broad process groups: (i) initiating, (ii) planning, (iii) executing, (iv) monitoring and controlling, and (v) closing. (Here and there, evaluations may also be carried out.) To note, six parameters are always given weight in project management methodologies: (i) time, (ii) cost, (iii) human resources, (iv) scope, (v) quality, and (vi) actions.
In the past, projects were often undertaken without any consideration to their environmental consequences. Nowadays, environmental assessments and measures that are fully integrated into the project cycle help identify the potential environmental impacts and risks of a project and prescribe the environmental management plan to be implemented. Typically, the types of reports these environmental assessments and measures can call for include an Initial Environmental Examination, Environmental Assessment Review Framework, Environmental Impact Assessment, Social and Environmental Compliance Audit Report, etc.
PS: Environmental impacts do not just stem from projects: the technical report hyperlinked below draws attention to potential environmental repercussions from policy reform (aka sectoral adjustments).
Technical Report Environmental Considerations in Program Lending
Actually, the types of reports these environmental assessments and measures can call for include an Initial Environmental Examination, Environmental Assessment Review Framework, Environmental Impact Assessment, Social and Environmental Compliance Audit Report, etc.