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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a policy and management tool for planning and decision-making, allowing the identification, prediction and evaluation of the environmental impact of proposed development projects. This text provides an introduction to EIA, with sections on its process, methods and tools. It discusses the implementation of specific environmental measures and the need for their constant monitoring, as well as reviewing the final reporting of an EIA. ... Read more

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In the urbanised delta of the Netherlands, it is important to take water-related and environmental impacts fully into account when deciding on socio-economic activities. This is the aim behind Water Assessment (WA), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). This thesis is centred on a comparative research of these policy instruments. The overall research aim is to explain the character and effectiveness of WA, EIA and SEA, and compare each of them with the others, also in relation to their broader policy context.The method that is used in this thesis is positioned at the intersection of theory and practice. It is a method underpinned, philosophically, in Aristotle’s phronesis and apagoge. With its focus on governmental decision-making, the research can be positioned mainly in the fields of planning and public administration.The thesis ends by offering practical contributions to the further development of WA, EIA and SEA. ... Read more

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This book provides an up-to-date guide to environmental impact assessment procedures in Australia. ... Read more

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This book includes four Sections. Section 1 discusses thecurrent state of implementation of the directives on environmentalimpact assessment and environmental hazards. It also includes a paperon Dutch integral environmental zoning project. Section 2 deals withEIA approaches and techniques. First, the phases of an EIA study andthe risk analysis methods are described. Then, Danish experiences inEIA, environmental planning in the Ruhr area and pollution abatementin oil refineries and inorganic chemical industries are illustrated.Finally, a decision support system for EIA is presented. Section 3 isdevoted to environmental indicators and indices. A first paperinvestigates the fundamental problems related to the notions ofenvironmental indicator and measurement scale. The assessment of air,surface water, ground water and soil quality indicators and indices isthen discussed in detail. The last two papers of this section dealwith ecotoxicological risk indicators for environmental chemicals andindustrial plant risk indicators, respectively. Finally, Section 4discusses the economical and sociological dimensions of EIA.
The book will be of value to scientists and technicians involved inenvironmental impact, environmental compatibility and environmentalaudit studies.
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This volume examines the norms of international law that apply to the planning stage of large-scale activities such as hydrocarbon exploitation, mineral extraction and forestry. These stationary activities (those that remain at a single location for a period of time), pose grave risks to the Arctic environment, since the development of technology has made it profitable to exploit natural resources even in such harsh regions. ... Read more

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One of the objectives of the European Directive on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was to harmonize environmental controls in the European Union. This volume examines and compares environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice for wastewater treatment plants in the United Kingdom and Germany. It looks at the wider context in which EIA Processes for wastewater treatment plants operate in the two countries; geographical and institutional differences and differences in environmental policy-making and wastewater management are outlined; the formal implemetation of the European EIA directive in the United Kingdom and Germany is examined. Based on empirical research in the two countries, it outlines how EIA processes differ in practice. It explains similarities and differences and suggests improvements to both EIA-systems. ... Read more

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a well-established instrument of Environmental Law and policy that aims to ensure that potential adverse environmental effects of human activities are assessed before decisions on such activities are made. The instrument is increasingly being applied in respect of activities that may cause environmental effects across the borders of a state.In this book, thirteen systems of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (TEIA) are assessed that exist or are in development in different parts of the world. Although TEIA is generally associated with EIA between territorial states, this book takes a broader approach and is divided into three sub-parts: Transboundary EIA between states, EIA for activities in international and shared areas, and EIA required by international financial institutions. Knowledgeable experts (scholars and practitioners) provide an overview of the history, content, and practice of the individual systems and, based on these discussions, the state of the art concerning TEIA and possible future developments are discussed. ... Read more

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An ecosystem is a complex of interconnected living organisms inhabiting a particular area or unit of space, together with their environment and all their interrelationships and relationships with the environment having a well-maintained ecological processes and interactions. It is characterised by the abundance of individual species populations; interspecies relationships; activity of organisms; physical and chemical characteristics of environment; flows of matter, energy, and information; and description of changes of these parameters with time. Hence, its surroundings can be categorised into physical and biological environment, which are self-defined, self-maintained and self-sustained dynamic natural systems. The physical environment comprises of lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, while the living beings in the biosphere constitute biological environment.The biosphere contains many delicate biological processes that have taken billions of years to evolve and there is a natural equilibrium for life sustaining processes dependent on relatively slow rates of recycling.These natural processes as well as resources are being over driven by human activities to meet the growing demands of the population. These developmental activities by humans ignoring the ecosystems and functional aspects are instrumental in bringing about irreversible changes in the ecosystem and their environment. The concern now is on the rise for the changes due to human induced activities that are proving detrimental, as it has exceeded the recycling rates of natural processes, which are altering the very nature of the environment.These changes are drastic, both to the environment and its inhabitants alike. Under such circumstances, it is necessary to do a retrospective analysis of the present situation to identify the degree of seriousness of different kinds of anthropogenic activities on the environment, plausible measures to curb further damaging to environment and better ways to live in harmony with the environment. ... Read more