Chains of causalities of environmental impacts

Robert Joumard (1) , Santiago Mancebo Quintana (2) , Gerassimos Arapis (3) , Tomasz Zacharz (4)

1 INRETS/LTE - Laboratoire Transport et Environnement
2 Transyt
3 Agricultural Univ. of Athens
4 Komag

In order to prepare an encompassing ex-ante assessment of the impacts of the transport system on the environment by building impact indicators, the pressure-state-impact concept is widen into the concept of chain of causalities or process. A process is defined by an output of the transport system, a homogeneous series of physical, chemical, biological, psychological relationships between elements, and a final target. All the known today impacts of the transport system on the environment are described as a list of 43 chains of causalities. The knowledge of the relationships will be used to design indicators or to know what does and not does measure a given indicator.

Mots clés: environmental impact; classification; process; chain of causalities; transport

Domaines: Environnement et Société

Robert Joumard, Santiago Mancebo Quintana, Gerassimos Arapis, Tomasz Zacharz. Chains of causalities of environmental impacts. Towards the definition of a measurable environmentally sustainable transport, Feb 2008, Norway. pp.1-12. ⟨hal-00916735⟩