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focused approaches. The identification of new potential impacts may open up new
elements of the environment for investigation; the identification of effective measures for
mitigating impacts may curtail certain areas of investigation.
Environmental components or elements can be described simply in broad categories,
as outlined in Table 1.3. Environmental impact assessment: guide to the procedures
(ODPM 2003a) also provides information on what could be included in a project
Figure 4.6 Labour requirements for a
project over several stages of its life.
description (see Table 3.5), including an important distinction between physical features
and policy framework. In contrast, Leopold has 88 components in his interactive matrix
(see Figure 4.12), and each of these could be subdivided further. Several UN publications