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Anticipating the Environmental Effects of Technology
A manual for decision-makers, planners and other technology stakeholders


  Executive Summmary
Table of Contents
  Preface
  1 Introduction
    1.1 Goals of the EnTA Manual
1.2 Who should use this Manual?
1.3 How to use this Manual
  2 Environmental Technology Assessment EnTA
    2.1 Characteristics of EnTA
2.2 The role of opinion and judgement in EnTA
2.3 The benefits of EnTA
2.4 EnTA and other assessment tools
2.5 Overview of EnTA
2.6 Steps in the EnTA process
2.7 EnTA is not a linear process
2.8 Alternative approaches
2.9 Evaluating environmental consequences
2.10 Pressures on the environment
2.11 Boundaries for the pressures associated with the technology
2.12 Types of impacts
2.13 When is an impact significant?
2.14 Assessing economic viability
  3 The EnTA Workbook
    3.1 Introduction
3.2 Preparing for an EnTA
3.3 Step 1: Describe the proposed technology
3.4 Step 2: Resource and other requirements, and their associated environmental pressures
3.5 Step 3: Preliminary judgement
3.6 Step 4: Comparative assessment of alternative technologies
3.7 Step 5: Decide if a consensus decision can be reached
3.8 Completing the EnTA
  4 Worksheets(Word doc)
  Annex 1 Sources of Additional Information
  Annex 2 Case Study
  Annex 3 Indicators Used in Assessment of General Economic Performance
  5 Workshop Report

 
  • Major Projects
  • DEBRI Project
  • DEBRI Project
  • Iraqi Marshlands Project
  • Iraqi Marshlands Project
  • IETC's Tools
  • Environmentally Sound Technology Information System
  • ESTIS facilitates creation and management of websites on the Internet, sharing and searching of information across multiple ESTIS websites, publishing of information by non-web designers and decentralized management of content.
  • WiseWater
  • WiseWater is a spreadsheet application for projecting reductions in Water Consumption Patterns after application of Environmentally Sound Technologies. It is included as part of the publication "Every Drop Counts: Environmentally Sound Technologies for Urban and Domestic Water Use Efficiency".
  • Pamolare
  • PAMOLARE is an environmental modelling tool to forecast the changes in water quality leading to the eutrophication of Lakes and Reservoirs.
    The versatility of PAMOLARE allows for its use in decision making process as well as for training purposes.