Sustainability Appraisal: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience - Softcover

Dalal-Clayton, Barry; Sadler, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041569616X ISBN 13: 9780415696166

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to illustrate the status and scope of Sustainability Appraisal/Assessment (SA) This comprehensive guide highlights how SA can be used to analyse and integrate the key environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability into decision-making at all levels, from policy to project to investment, by government, business and industry, or international organizations.

Distilling both published and unpublished materials, and with contributions from a range of leading experts, organizations and agencies, this book will be of significant value to professionals everywhere who are in need of a solid, reference guide to what constitutes SA practice and, more importantly, how and when it can be applied.

About this title

About the Author

Barry Dalal-Clayton is Senior Fellow at IIED, author of Sustainable Development Strategies (Earthscan, 2002) and co-author, with Barry Sadler, of Strategic Environmental Assessment (Earthscan, 2005).

Barry Sadler is an independent consultant and former advisor to a number of international organisations, contributor to Assessing Impact (Routledge, 2004) and co-editor of the Handbook of SEA (Earthscan, 2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041569616X
• ISBN 13: 9780415696166
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 680