Economic impact analysisAn economic impact analysis (EIA) examines the effect of an event on the economy in a specified area, ranging from a single neighborhood to the entire globe. It usually measures changes in business revenue, business profits, personal wages, and/or jobs. The economic event analyzed can include implementation of a new policy or project, or may simply be the presence of a business or organization. An economic impact analysis is commonly conducted when there is public concern about the potential impacts of a proposed project or policy.
Environmental goodEnvironmental goods are typically non-market goods, including clean air, clean water, landscape, green transport infrastructure (footpaths, cycleways, greenways, etc.), public parks, urban parks, rivers, mountains, forests, and beaches. Environmental goods are a sub-category of public goods. Concerns with environmental goods focus on the effects that the exploitation of ecological systems have on the economy, the well-being of humans and other species, and on the environment.
UncertaintyUncertainty refers to epistemic situations involving imperfect or unknown information. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements that are already made, or to the unknown. Uncertainty arises in partially observable or stochastic environments, as well as due to ignorance, indolence, or both. It arises in any number of fields, including insurance, philosophy, physics, statistics, economics, finance, medicine, psychology, sociology, engineering, metrology, meteorology, ecology and information science.
Économie (discipline)L'économie (ou économie politique, science économique) est une discipline qui étudie l'économie en tant qu'activité humaine, qui consiste en la production, la distribution, l'échange et la consommation de biens et de services. Son nom provient du grec ancien / oikonomía qui signifie « administration d'un foyer ». Si dans l'Antiquité Xénophon et Aristote ont chacun écrit un traité sur l'économie, c'est à partir du que se développe la pensée économique moderne, avec le mercantilisme, puis au avec les physiocrates.
Droit de l'environnementvignette|redresse=1.4|Émissions annuelles de carbone par région du monde. Le droit de l'environnement concerne l'étude ou l'élaboration de règles juridiques visant la compréhension, la protection, l'utilisation, la gestion ou la restauration de l'environnement contre perturbation écologique sous toutes ses formes - terrestres, aquatiques et marines, naturelles et culturelles, voire non-terrestres (droit spatial). C'est un droit technique et complexe, local et global (européen, droit de la mer, international.