Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment :Environmental Impact Asstssment: Process, Methods and Potential

Judith Petts

ISBN 10: 0632047720 / ISBN 13: 9780632047727

Published by Wiley-Blackwell 1999-06-11, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment :Environmental Impact Asstssment: Process, Methods and Potential
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 1999-06-11
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0632047720
• ISBN 13: 9780632047727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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 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.

About the Author

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