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A clearly structured overview of a key subject, this work provides the student with not only a complete introductory text but also a book to support further studies. Written by three authors with extensive research and practical experience in EIA, the treatment is up to date and brings together currently fragmented information from many sources.; EIA is now firmly on the agenda as a result of the introduction of legislation at both national and international levels, and is very much in tune with widespread and growing concern about environmental issues and the impact of development on the environment. First introduced in the USA in the 1970s, the application of EIA has been accelerated in Europe by the 1985 EC directive, which led to its introduction in the UK in 1988, since when it has been a major growth area in planning practice. The originally anticipated 20 environmental impact statements per annum have now grown to well over 300, for projects such as power stations, roads, new settlements, mineral extraction schemes, waste-disposal installations and toursism developments, and this is but the tip of the iceberg.; Based on highly successful courses at one of the leading schools of planning, this book should serve the need for an introduction to EIA that goes beyond first principles and is informed by a wealth of teaching, research and practical experience. Students on undergraduate and postgraduate planning programmes should find it useful as a course text, as will students of environmental management/policy, environmental sciences/studies, geography and the built environment. Planners, developers and decision- makers in government and business should also welcome the book as a very effective means of getting to grips with a key new subject which they must fully integrate with their other activities. ... Read more

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Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is now firmly established as an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project. Delivering a successful EIA needs not only an understanding of the theory but also a detailed knowledge of the methods for carrying out the processes required. Peter Morris and Riki Therivel bring together the latest advice on best practice from experienced practitioners to ensure an EIA is carried out correctly. This new edition:

• explains how an EIA works and how it should be carried out

• demonstrates the relationship of the EIA to socio-economic, environmental and ecological systems

• includes completely updated legislative and policy contexts

• has added explanations of shared and integrative methods including a new chapter on EIA and sustainability.

Invaluable to undergraduate and MSc students of EIA in planning, ecology, geography and environment courses, this third edition of Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment is also of great use to planners, EIA practitioners and professionals seeking to update their skills.

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A WORLDWIDE HELPFUL BOOK
Methods of environmental impact assessmemnt is a comprehensive and panoramic view of how to evaluate the most fundamental variables of the envronment.This in turn is vey helpful for the practiotioner to get acquianted with the variables which a project could have impactas on as well as the different methods of assesing those impacts.
In its two parts which total seventeeth chapters the editor lets the student and the practitioner drink form the knowledge and experience of over thrity authors who know well what they are saying.
This book is a tool that is helping and will continue to help technicians and scientists of the environment worldwide.
This book is really a good library which should be studied by those who are looking for academic rigor as well as practical insight. ... Read more

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The process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) aims to ensure that development projects have no disastrous environmental and social consequences. This book examines the crucial role of EIA in government decision-making in Europe, North America and Asia. It explains what EIA is and why it is important; outlines the best procedures for assessing projects; shows how to write an environmental impact statement and suggests ways to minimize areas of dispute for government, investors and the community. It is up to date and written from an international perspective for students, practitioners and policy-makers. ... Read more

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All the laws, terms, documents, and guidance on environmental impact assessment you need -- in one book!

Anyone who has ever had to wade through volumes of regulations and permit procedures. . .been besieged by confusing jargon and unknown acronyms. . .or otherwise wished there were a clear and reliable guide to the essentials of environmental impact assessment, will applaud this comprehensive and intelligently organized book.

Here, for the first time in one convenient volume, are all the key legislation, terminology, and documents you need to know, as well as invaluable guidance through an array of potential environmental impact study areas. You'll find important information on data sources, agency contacts, laws and permits, methodologies, presentation of results, and other practical issues that will give you the tools to tackle questions such as: Whom do I need to contact? Where do I find information? What should be assessed? Is a permit required? Who issues it? Is there a special processing requirement? What's the best way to summarize my results for productive use?

This book provides numerous examples and a host of useful suggestions throughout, while skillfully interweaving the basic requirements with an understanding of the principles underlying environmental impact assessment. There is also an extensive index for direct access to any topic. ... Read more

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For consultants, worth its weight in gold
While not a cookbook, this is definitely a "how-to" book by a woman who's forgotten more about "how to" than I'll ever know. Betty explains not only how to research, analyze, and document the entirespectrum of possible environmental impacts, but why, and she does it ineasily accessible language. The bulk of her experience is intransportation, and it shows in the text, but the principles and proceduresapply to any federal project. I made sure my staff had a copy so theywouldn't keep swiping mine. Thanks, Betty, we needed this...it's everythingyou promised and more!

Lea Ann Perrego, EIT, Sr. Project Manager,McCormick-Taylor Associates

The best all-in-one handbook for environmental practitioners
This would be excellent for use as a college textbook in engineering, planning, or administrative curricula.As a guide throught the environmental regulations maze, it is an invaluable to consultants and agency personnel alike.The advice and tips related to preparing better quality and more efficient environmental documents is well worth the investment in this book. C. Huntington Assistant Vice President Parsons Brinckerhoff ... Read more

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The central idea animating environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that decisions affecting the environment should be made through a comprehensive evaluation of predicted impacts. Notwithstanding their evaluative mandate, EIA processes do not impose specific environmental standards, but rely on the creation of open, participatory and information rich decision-making settings to bring about environmentally benign outcomes. In light of this tension between process and substance, Neil Craik assesses whether EIA, as a method of implementing international environmental law, is a sound policy strategy, and how international EIA commitments structure transnational interactions in order to influence decisions affecting the international environment. Through a comprehensive description of international EIA commitments and their implementation with domestic and transnational governance structures, and drawing on specific examples of transnational EIA processes, the author examines how international EIA commitments can facilitate interest coordination, and provide opportunities for persuasion and for the internalisation of international environmental norms. ... Read more

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This book challenges the prevailing assumption that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should be structured around a unitary EIA process. The book begins by identifying, through a scenario, eight recurrent problems in EIA practice. The characteristics of multiple variations of conventional EIA processes, at both the regulatory and applied levels, are then presented. The residual problems that remain after the conventional processes are described and assessed providing the springboard for a description and analysis of eight alternative EIA processes. ... Read more

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Environmental impact assessment is among the most influential aspects of environmental regulation and policy today. Through twenty-one chapters that examine current debates, recent cases, and ongoing developments in Canadian EIA, Environmental Impact Assessment: Practice and Participation, Second Edition reflects the diversity of issues EIA processes now address. Part I provides a comprehensive examination of environmental impact assessment in Canada through analyses of methods and approaches, as well as fascinating case studies that illuminate the wide-ranging influence of EIA in federal and provincial policy, planning processes, and regulation. Part II offers detailed profiles of EIA laws and regulations as they are applied to each jurisdiction, from Atlantic Canada to BC and at the federal level. ... Read more

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Written to help decision makers form assessments on the environmental impacts a project would produce, this book provides readers with an in depth, yet understandable description of the ecological, socioeconomic, and other parts of the natural environment that may be affected. While written for professionals in government, consulting, and the private sector, this text also serves as an introductory lesson to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The author provides a theoretical introduction to the subject as well as practical guidance. The book includes problems at the end of each chapter.

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Fuzzy logic enables people preparing environmental impact statements to quantify complex environmental, economic and social conditions.  This reduces the time and cost of assessments, while producing justifiable results.  ... Read more

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This volume is based on a number of reports prepared overseveral years for a research project jointly sponsored by the UnitedNations Environment Programme, the Australian InternationalDevelopment Assistance Bureau and the Australian and New ZealandEnvironment and Conservation Council.
Since release of the report of the World Commission on Environment andDevelopment, the quest has intensified for methods that combineeconomic analysis and environmental assessments to achieve the goalsof sustainable development.
The main purpose of this volume is to explain how this may beaccomplished. It combines scientific assessments, economic analysisand governmental procedures in an integrated approach to planning foreconomic development and environmental protection. The first fourchapters explain economic concepts and techniques and theirincorporation in EIA procedure. Six carefully selected case studiesare presented, demonstrating practical applications in six differentcountries -- Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, Hawaii andAustralia.
The volume will assist all participants involved in environmentalimpact assessment: public and private development proponents,environmental and conservation groups, public administrators anddecision makers, and interested members of the public. The book isunique in that it combines economics, EIA techniques, procedures, andinstitutional aspects.
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Provides an authoritative contemporary review of both the science and art of EIA, reflecting concern both with the technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process. ... Read more

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This established handbook offers a comprehensive practical guide to the requirements of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in accordance with the latest UK regulations. Explaining the EIA process and legal procedures in a clear and straightforward way, the authors employ their extensive practical experience to cover each of the steps and associated studies needed to undertake an EIA and to produce a successful Environmental Statement. ... Read more

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Health and the environment are intimately linked. Bad environments can cause ill-health, whether it be asthma worsened by air pollution, poisoning by exposure to hazardous substances, injury caused by fast-moving machinery, stress due to noise or social isolation resulting from poorly designed housing developments. Good environments contribute directly to our quality of life and wellbeing. Despite the interdependence of environment and health, these areas have traditionally been addressed separately through healthcare services, public health legislation and environmental protection measures. A pilot study carried out for the BMA found that in planning for new development projects, human health issues are often not adequately addressed.

In this important new book, the British Medical Association shows why we need to develop an integrated approach to health and environmental impact assessment of development projects, and how this might be achieved. This approach may also be applied at the strategic level, allowing consideration of the health implications of larger-scale policies, programmes and plans within a wider framework of sustainable development.

Concise and authoritative, with numerous case studies and examples, this BMA policy report will be useful for doctors and other health professionals, environmental health officers, planners and consultants, as well as students and researchers in environmental studies, health policy and planning. ... Read more

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development and demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This handbook hopes to improve practice 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, and positions EIA in the context of sustainable development as well as the 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. The volume concludes by addressing cumulative impact assessment and SEA methods.

Volume 2 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 'how to do' 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. ... Read more

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The first integrated text on applied ecology, ecologicalimpact assessment and environmental planning written by abiological ecologist with extensive experience in bothplanning and geography. Ecology critically reviews currentmethods of assessment and provides the conceptual andmethodological basis for advancing the field. It also offers adetailed discussion of legal and planning issues by reviewingcurrent environmental legislation, discussing risk analysisand decision making techniques, and presenting quantitativeeconomic and non-economic techniques for evaluating ecologicalimpacts. ... Read more

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the mostimportant tools employed in contemporary environmental management.Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherentmethodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: AMethodological Approach provides students and practitionersalike with a rigorous grounding in EIA theory, including biophysical,social, strategic and cumulative assessment activities, and examinesthe crucial role, and limitations, of the science of EIA. Deliberately designed to be relevant world-wide, the author focuses onthe common skills and generic aspects of EIA that underpin all impactassessment work, independent of country or jurisdiction, such asscreening and scoping, impact identification, public involvement,prediction and monitoring, evaluation, and quality control. Thevariety of approaches are identified along with their associatedstrengths and weaknesses, enabling potential, new and experiencedpractitioners to make informed choices and to improve their workingpractices through a better understanding of EIA activity. The ultimate aim of this book is to move from the notion of EIA as atechnical procedure towards a concept of EIA as a particular form ofproblem-solving with varied methodological requirements. ... Read more

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This book consists of papers and final recommendations onStrategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), presented at the 4thEuropean EIA Workshop which was held from 29 May to 1 June 1997 inPotsdam, Germany. The main objectives of this workshop were to specifycurrent SEA-related methodologies and procedures, and to identifymajor deficiencies; to identify constraints on SEA implementation inthe Member States; and to identify SEA research and training needs andmethods.
The book contains contributions on recent SEA research developmentsand covers a wide range of topics, including a contribution from theEuropean Commission on SEA developments in the EU, with a proposal fora council directive on the assessment of the effects of certain plansand programmes on the environment. Other papers, particularly from theFederal Environmental Ministries of the EU Member States, deal withSEA legislation and procedures in the European Community, an AustrianSEA study, EIA/SEA for structural funds and the development ofenvironmental quality objectives, the Erlangen case study on SEA inland use planning, and SEA research strategy in Europe.
The discussion is not limited to SEA for plans and programmes but alsoincludes environmental assessment for policies, for instance theDanish experience with SEA in policy-making, environmental assessmentof policies in The Netherlands, and inclusion of environmentalconsiderations into Ministerial Recommendations for Cabinet'sdecisions by the Federal Government in Canada.
The book shows that SEA is already part of some sectoral planningprocedures within the Member States, mostly for land use planning. Itis acknowledged to be a valuable instrument for includingenvironmental considerations early in the planning process. There maybe methodological, procedural or political constraints onimplementation of SEA at all planning levels, but they can be overcomeby practice and research.
Audience: Environmental professionals, whether academic,governmental or in the private consultancy sector. ... Read more

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has become a vital management tool worldwide.EIA is a means of evaluating the likely consequences of a proposed major action which will significantly affect the environment, before that action is taken.This new edition of Wood's key text provides an authoritative, international review of environmental impact assessment, comparing systems used in the UK, USA, the Netherlands, Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand and South Africa. ... Read more