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is the main instrument for environmental management, in so far as it meets all the criteria, strategies, actions and programs; to prevent, mitigate and compensate for negative impacts and empower positive.
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The authority granted the environmental authority for the implementation of a project, work or activity, according to the law and regulations can cause severe deterioration of renewable natural resources or the environment or introduce considerable or notorious modifications the landscape; which subject the recipient thereof, meeting the requirements, terms, conditions and obligations established in the same relation to the prevention, mitigation, correction, compensation and management of environmental effects of the project, work or unauthorized activity.
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Any changes in the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or in part a result of the environmental aspects of an organization; Environmental aspect understood as the element of the activities, products or services that can interact with the environment.
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The propensity of social, economic and environmental damage suffered by the occurrence of a specific phenomenon threatening goods.
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The science that studies the origin and formation of groundwater, forms of deposit, diffusion, movement, speed and reserves, their interaction with soil and rock, its state (liquid, solid and gas) and properties (physical, chemical, biological and radioactive); and the conditions that determine the actions of their use, regulation and evacuation.
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They are a very simple method of identification, which is used for preliminary assessments. They serve primarily to draw attention to the most important impacts that may occur as a result of the project.
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The gaseous envelope, about 2,000 km thick, surrounding the earth. The most important layer is the troposphere because it contains the air we breathe and she meteorological phenomena affecting climate occur.
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The set of the medium, watching it as an indicator and synthesis of the interrelationships between the inert elements (rocks, water and air) and living organisms (plants, animals and man), the medium.
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Any technical document that defines or determines the location and implementation of plans and programs, the realization of buildings or other facilities and works and other interventions in the natural surroundings and the landscape, including those involving the extraction of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, and land use management.
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The combination of probability and (s) consequence (s) of a specific hazardous event occurs.
