Cumulative environmental impacts

Cumulative impacts of human activity on the environment become important when sources of perturbation in the environment are grouped sufficiently closely in space or time such as to exceed the ecosystems natural ability to remove or dissipate the resultant disturbance.

1. Among the most troublesome interactions between development and environment are those that involve cumulative impacts.

1. Unforeseen environmental crises
2. Natural environment degradation
3. Indiscriminate economic development

1. Unknown synergistic effects

1. Irreversible problem emergence
2. Irreversible environmental trends

1. Unethical practices of environmentalists
2. Inadequate environmental impact assessment

1. Assessing environmental impacts

1. Accumulation [D]
2. Accumulation [C]