Assessing Cultural and Ecological Impacts from Industry
ESS assists clients to develop and deliver projects that measure and assess the impacts to cultural and natural heritage resulting from proposed and existing development.
Sophisticated mapping tools in the standard content management system can be used to record baseline cultural and natural heritage values such as cultural sites, traditional land uses, song-lines, stories and the occurrence of significant plant and animals species. Maps of proposed or ongoing development can then be imported into the system that allows them to be overlaid on this cultural and natural heritage information, which enables comparison and analyses that produces grounded and meaningful reports regarding the potential and likely impacts of development.
These same systems and processes are used to establish cultural and environmental monitoring programs so that the changes associated with developments can be detected, monitored and managed.
Key features:
- Tools and methods to map and protect natural and cultural heritage values.
- Import and overlay maps of developments to identify the cultural and natural heritage values that will be (or are being) impacted.
- Increased capacity to communicate impacts of industry back to development proponents (through maps, tables, charts, reports etc.).
- Increased knowledge-base upon which to contribute to decisions about future development proposals.
- Easily expanded into ongoing monitoring programs.