Environmental impact assessment
Sustainable development
Detailed Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) are a requirement of the regulatory process designed to protect our coastal and marine environments from exploitation.
Cefas has a thorough understanding of the legislation and provides solutions for minimising the impact of coastal and marine development that will satisfy both regulators and stakeholders.
Expertise
We have the capability to assess the combined effects of multiple human activities in marine and coastal zones, and the technology to detect environmental change.
We provide our clients with the following expertise:
- Design, implementation and evaluation of monitoring programmes
- Data collection, interpretation and analysis
- Understanding national and international legislation
- Seabed surveys
- Ecotoxicity assessment
- Sediment transport studies
- Computer modelling
- Instrumentation for long-term and real-time environmental measurements
- Analytical facilities for contaminant measurement in a range of matrices
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS) development
- Understanding of ecosystem processes
