Zero variant
The zero variant is colloquially referred to as the variant of not implementing a project or a plan and assessing the consequences of this approach on the environment and society .
The zero variant plays a special role in the environmental impact assessment (EIA), as it can be used to assess whether the implementation of a project is harmless and / or whether there may be a public interest in it. Irrespective of this, the examination of zero variants is already implicit in planning law due to the balancing requirement and is fundamentally required for project-related planning by the public sector.
Other terms are: situation without a project, planning zero, maintaining the status quo .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Jan Ziekow: Environmental Impact Assessment and Spatial Overall Planning, in: Jan Ziekow (Hrsg.): Building planning law facing new challenges, series of the University of Speyer, Speyer 1999, ISBN 3-428-10011-5 , pp. 9–44, here p. 39