Offers a comprehensive coverage of the methods used in environmental impact assessment, which is now firmly established as an obligatory procedure in proposing or launching any development project with possible impacts on the environment.
This new edition: • explains how an ESIA works and how it should be carried out • demonstrates the links between socio-economic, cultural, environmental and ecological systems and assessments • incorporates the World Bank’s IFC ...
Methods Of Environmental Impact Assessment
This handbook provides readers with a strong foundation for understanding the practice of EIA, by outlining the different types of assessment while also providing a guide to best practice.
Under the best of circumstances, preparing an environmental impact assessment (EIA) can be a complex and challenging task.
This volume is based on a number of reports prepared over several years for a research project jointly sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme, the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau and the Australian and ...
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The ultimate aim of this book is to move from the notion of EIA as a technical procedure towards a concept of EIA as a particular form of problem-solving with varied methodological requirements.
This comprehensive treatment of environmental impact assessment (EIA) provides an authoritative contemporary review of theory and practice over the past ten years. EIA is viewed as both science and art,...
This Handbook hopes to improve practice by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate. This first volume addresses EIA principles, process and methods.
This book explains the essentials of environmental impact association in the context of developing countries and assesses its importance to both developed and developing countries.