Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Report - Meghalaya State ...

GLOSSARYEnvironmentBiosphereEco-systemForest CoverForest InventoryOur surroundings- the context, within which we existThat portion of the earth-atmosphere system, whichsupports lifeThe basic structural unit of BiosphereAll lands with a free canopy, density of more than 10percent though they may not be statutorily notified asforestThe measuring and describing the quantity andquality of forest crop & many of the characteristics ofthe land area upon which forest crop is growingRecordedAreaBio-diversityBiotaForestAll lands statutorily notified as forest though theymay not necessarily bear tree coverBio diversity refer to the wealth of eco-system in thebiosphere, of species within eco-systems, and ofgenetic information within populationA collective team, which denotes all the livingorganisms in a particular spaceCumulative EffectsEconomic ValuationofEnvironmentalImpacts(EVE)EnvironmentalAssessmentThose effects, which result from the incrementalimpacts of individual events when added to otherpast, present and foreseeable further events. Theindividual impacts contributing to the cumulativeeffects may each be minor or their own, but theimpacts collectively may be significantThe group of procedures used to estimate, inmonetary terms, the costs and benefits arising fromproject related impacts effecting both the bio-physicaland social environment, in relation to a similarcalculation which assumes a no-project scenarioThe systematic process by which the effects on thebio-physical and socio-economic environment of aproposed human action or set of actions areevaluated, producing a set of recommendationswhich serve as influential input to the design of theaction or actionsG - 1