The ultimate effect of the program on the problem or condition that the program or activity was supposed to do something about.
The effect that a risk would have if it happens.
the effect an advertising message or program has on the target audience; see penetration.
A strong effect or impression. With regards to human rights, impact refers to a marked or significant outcome as a result of a negative event. Fore example, the feeling of humiliation is a negative impact of an event. Impact is the key element in deciding if discrimination or harassment has occurred.
impact is defined as the actual process of contact between an event and a society or a society's immediate perimeter; an effect or influence, especially when strong;89 Impact has a broad connotation and refers to both positive and negative influences produced by events on the environment.90
a negative environmental change or effect.
influencing strongly; "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture"
have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
The influence or effect that any particular land use has on a wetland's functions. The degree of impairment to the wetlands functions is directly related to the type and magnitude of the impact.
Any effect caused by a proposed activity on the environment including human health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and historical monuments or other physical structures of the interaction among these factors; it also includes effects on cultural heritage or socio-economic conditions resulting from alternatives to those factors.
An assessment of the effect on the project if a risk materialises.
The resultant effect of a risk being realised. May be a quantitative (numeric/ monetary) or qualitative measure.
Influence or effect of one thing upon another.
The loss or effect on the project if the risk occurs. Impact is one of the three attributes of a risk. A risk that does not impact an objective is not particularly important to a project manager. A risk that can affect the objective should be assessed and, if possible, it’s impact quantified. Qualitative judgments such as low, moderate and high-risk impacts are useful in some cases. The impact is traditionally described in two dimensions, it’s likelihood of occurring and the impact on an objective should it occur.
The effect of an activity, for example, the effect that a resource centre and its services has on users' work.
The potential level of impact and effect of a Business Continuity E/I/E/C over time on an organisation. The level of impact and effect is usually relative to the size of the organisation and its BCM financial and non-financial and are further divided into specific types of impact. See: Business Impact Analysis
The effect of one thing or action on another person, activity, or area. For example, environmental impact refers to the good or bad effect an activity has on the surrounding environment.
a forceful consequence; influencing strongly; to have an effect upon. The impact of behavior of a sexual nature is more important than the person's intentions in determining sexual harassment. Return to course
An effect requiring the specification of underlying conditions and assumptions. For example, the operation of a well for the purpose of withdrawing groundwater, by the laws of physics, must affect water levels within the aquifer being pumped and, therefore, will affect water levels in the vicinity of the pumped well. The degree of impact is dependent upon a number of physical and hydraulic factors. Rather than define a particular impact as “adverse”, the ISWS elects to state what the impacts are for explicitly stated conditions and/or assumptions.
any activity that directly or indirectly influences changes to an area.
In environmental analyses, the word "impact" is used to express the extent or severity of an environmental problem, e.g., the number of persons exposed to a given noise environment. As indicated in CEQ 1500 (Section 1508.8), impacts and effects are considered to be synonymous. Effects or impacts may be ecological, aesthetic, historic, cultural, economic, social, or health related, and they may be direct, indirect, or cumulative.
an effect of increased greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric CO2 concentration (and other global changes) on physical and biological processes in both natural and managed systems
The meanings of "outcome" and "impact" are used inconsistently. Many authors (especially those employing "logic models", e.g., W.K. Kellogg Foundation) refer to immediate, intermediate, long-term outcomes, and their subsequent relationships to "impacts". However, some authors (e.g., Green re. PRECEDE-PROCEED) reverse this process, using "impact" to refer to "the immediate, short-term, or intermediate effects…", in contrast to "outcomes" which refer to longer term effects.
The effect that escalation or delay has on other work in a construction schle, ripple effect.
Changes in outcomes that can be attributed to a particular project, program or policy, in a situation where there may be many other influences on outcomes. Impact evaluation attempts to answer the question, "What would the situation have been if the intervention had not taken place?" [World Bank].
the impact of an event is the value of the effect of the risk event, if it occurs, on one or more of the financial parameters of the investment.
A clearly visible effect in a neighborhood, e.g., debris removal, general clean-up, rehabs, new homes.
The qualitative value of an exposure through a given medium (thus a food ad in a Good Housekeeping would have a higher impact than in a Police Gazette)