Where significant residual impacts remain likely, however, the company must take other action to compensate for the impacts, known as offsets.
Biodiversity offsets are a prevalent mechanism to compensate for development impacts to natural resources, but the appropriateness and efficacy of offsets remain the subjects of research and debate.
Robert Dudley, an expert on insect flight at the University of California, Berkeley, says that the paper "convincingly shows that mosquitoes survive and mechanically compensate for single impacts of relatively large water drops mostly because of their low mass as well as their flexible … exoskeleton".
At the same time, globalization generates constraints on the ability of national and sub-national governments to implement the policies that would mitigate or compensate for those impacts.
At some point, however, it would become unprofitable to disperse further and birds should settle for some infrastructure, which they appear to do in Oklahoma, possibly altering life history patterns to compensate for the impacts of the infrastructure on survivorship.
Third, humanitarian assistance in the form of food aid helps at the margin but is not near the scale needed to compensate for the impact of the climate shock on food security.
The impact assessment and the client's obligation to compensate for the impact of the project on the environment have existed since 1976.
To deal with the equivalent input saturation, an auxiliary error system is designed to compensate for the impact of the input saturation.
Better equipment and new rules, even if enforced, do not compensate for the impact of bigger, stronger, faster players – giants compared to predecessors, said Pear. "It's like playing in the freeway with cars going 80mph.
