Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. Volume 2: Environmental Impact Assessment in Pracice: Impact and Limitations - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0632047712 ISBN 13: 9780632047710

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development as well as demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision--making. This handbook hopes to improve practices by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready--reference source to this debate. Volume I addresses EIA principles, process and methods. Part 1 maps the EIA process and its impact on decision. It positions EIA in the context of sustainable development and relative to other decision tools, including economic valuation. It also positions strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in a similar way. Part 2 addresses the elements of the EIA process and significant impact assessment topics (air, water, ecological, social, risk, landscape and visual) not only in terms of good practice but also methodological evolution. This volume concludes by addressing cumulative impact assessment and SEA methods. Volume II provides a unique consideration for EIA implementation and practice in Europe, Africa, the Far East, South America and North America. It uses a number of project types to provide a how to doa guidance and addresses practice in policy and plan assessment. This book should be read by legislators, decision--makers, economists, developers, industrial managers and consultants involved in this significant field.

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About the Author:

Judith Irene Petts CBE is the Vice-Chancellor of Plymouth University. She graduated from the University of Exeter and Loughborough University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0632047712
• ISBN 13: 9780632047710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Petts Judith