What impact category does NOT pertain to environmental assessment?

The impact category that does not pertain to environmental assessment is economic effects. Environmental assessments typically focus on categories that directly relate to the environment, such as air impacts, terrestrial impacts, and human health impacts.

Air impacts involve the effects of pollutants on the atmosphere and climate. Terrestrial impacts assess the effects of activities on land, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Human health impacts address how environmental conditions can affect human well-being and health outcomes.

In contrast, economic effects deal with the financial implications of an action or project, which, while important, fall outside the core environmental focus of impact assessment. Such economic considerations might include cost-benefit analyses or economic viability, but they do not directly assess the environmental changes or consequences of a project. Thus, economic effects are considered a separate category and are not classified as an environmental impact.