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Overview
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 '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.
Synopsis
"Environmental Assessment is a tool of environmental management, providing a framework for the evaluation of effects on the environment likely to arise from a project. This two volume Handbook will not duplicate the already extensive technical and textbook literature on the subject, but will attempt to give readers an appreciation of the underlying science and methodology involved, referring the reader on to other publications for more specific details. Volume 1 addresses the role of EA as a tool in sustainable resource management, providing a critical review of the EA process rather than a "how to" manual. Volume 2 concentrates on EA in practice."
Booknews
The first in a two-volume critical reference providing an international perspective on the status of environmental impact assessment. Practitioners and consultants discuss key methodological issues and essential improvements in the context of sustainable development. The first part maps the process and its impact on decisions, positioning assessments relative to other tools, including economic valuation. The second part addresses the elements of the assessment process and air, water, ecological, social, risk, landscape, and visual assessment in terms of both good practice and methodological evolution. A final section considers cumulative impact assessment methods. The second volume examines implementation and practice in a number of global regions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)