Assessing impact : handbook of EIA and SEA follow-up / / edited by Angus Morrison-Saunders and Jos Arts

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910800053703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-84977-050-6; 1-280-47509-9; 1-136-57156-6; 9786610475094; 1-136-57155-8; 600-00-0060-X; 1-4175-8296-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (694 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ArtsJos; Morrison-SaundersAngus <1966->
• Disciplina: 333.71/4
• Soggetti: Environmental risk assessment - Europe; Environmental risk assessment - North America; Environmental risk assessment - Australasia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; About the Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction to EIA Follow-up; Introduction; What is EIA follow-up?; Need for EIA follow-up; Objectives of EIA follow-up; Historical overview; Contextual setting for EIA follow-up; Outcomes of follow-up; Challenges for EIA follow-up; Overview of the book; 2. Theoretical Perspectives on EIA and Follow-up; Introduction; Origins of the concept of EIA and follow-up; Relationship between planning and EIA; The tension between theory and practicePositioning EIA follow-up in the planning process; From theory to practice; 3. A Practical Framework for EIA Follow-up; Introduction; Background; Methodology; A practical follow-up framework; Relationship between the follow-up framework and the generic EIA process; Conclusions; 4. Designing for EIA Follow-; up: Experiences from The Netherlands; Introduction; EIA and follow-up in The Netherlands; Screening: Determining the need for EIA follow-up; Scoping: Defining the content of EIA follow-up; The result of screening and scoping: A follow-up programme; The Derde Merwedehaven waste disposal facilityConclusions; 5. Appraising Effects of Mitigation Measures: The Grand Coulee Dam's Impacts on Fisheries; Introduction; Introduction to GCD and CBP; Environmental Impact Statements for GCD and CBP; Mitigation of impacts on Columbia River salmonids; Difficulties in isolating effects of GCD and GCFMP; Irreversible and irretrievable impacts of GCD on salmon; Conclusions and policy implications; 6. Can Industry Benefit from Participation in EIA-follow-up? The ScottishPower Experience; Introduction; UK EIA regulations and follow-up practice; Benefits of EIA follow-up for industry: Motivating factors for proponentsDeriving value from EIA follow-up: ScottishPower's experience and case studies; The management of EIA follow-up: Improving practice; A practical framework for environmental management plans; Discussion and conclusions; 7. EIA Follow-up and Adaptive Management; Introduction; The importance of environmental management; EIA follow-up and environmental management in Western Australia; Factors promoting adaptive environmental management in EIA; Future directions for EIA follow-up and adaptive environmental management; Conclusion8. The Independent Environmental Watchdog: A Canadian Experiment in EIA Follow-up; Introduction; Ekati Mine; Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency; Community involvement in follow-up studies; Evaluation of the Agency; 9. Learning by Doing: EIA Follow-up in Hong Kong; Introduction; Overview of EIA procedures in Hong Kong; Process innovations in EIA follow-up; Content innovations in EIA follow-up; Case study: Penny's Bay redevelopment; Follow up to Strategic Environmental Assessment; Conclusions and lessons learned; 10. Follow-up in Current SEA Understanding; Introduction; Current understanding of SEA
• Sommario/riassunto: Written and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice of EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) follow-up. Without some form of follow-up, the consequences of impact assessments and the environmental outcomes of development projects will remain unknown. Assessing Impact examines both EIA follow-up and the emerging practice of SEA follow-up, and showcases follow-up procedures in various countries throughout Europe, North America and Australasi

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry / / edited by Radu Iovita, Katsuhiro Sano

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254139903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• ISBN: 94-017-7602-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Collana: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, , 1877-9077
• Disciplina: 623.441
• Soggetti: Paleontology; Archaeology; Ethnology; Evolution (Biology); Civilization—History; Behavioral sciences; Cultural Anthropology; Evolutionary Biology; Cultural History; Behavioral Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 When is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, Scientific Rigor, and the Limits of Inference -- Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysis and Fracture Propagation Velocity: A Controlled Experiment -- 3 Experiments in Fracture Patterns and Impact Velocity with Replica Hunting Weapons from Japan -- 4 Thirty Years of Experimental Research on the Breakage Patterns of Stone Age Osseous Points. Overview, Methodological Problems and Current Perspectives -- 5 Levers, Not Springs: How a Spearthrower Works and Why it Matters -- 6 Hunting Lesions in Pleistocene and Early Holocene European Bone Assemblages and their Implications for Our Knowledge on the Use and Timing of Lithic Projectile Technology -- 7 Edge Damage on 500-thousand-year-old Spear Tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: the Combined Effects of Spear Use and Taphonomic ; Processes -- 8 Projectile Damage and Point Morphometry at the Early Middle Paleolithic Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel): Preliminary Results and Interpretations -- 9 Morpho-metric Variability of Early Gravettian Tanged “Font-Robert” Points, and Functional Implications -- 10 Early Gravettian Projectile Technology in Southwestern Iberian Peninsula: the Double Backed and Bipointed Bladelets of Vale Boi (Portugal) -- 11 Uncertain Evidence for Weapons and Craft Tools: Functional Investigations of Australian Microliths -- 12 Projectiles and Hafting Technology -- 13 Testing Archaeological Approaches to Determining Past Projectile Delivery Systems using Ethnographic and Experimental Data -- 14 Penetration, Tissue Damage, and Lethality of Wood- Versus Lithic-Tipped Projectiles -- 15 Experimental and Archeological Observations of Northern Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic Mousterian Point Assemblages. Testing the Potential Use of Throwing Spears among Neanderthals -- 16 More to the Point: Developing an Multi-Faceted Approach to Investigating the Curation of Magdalenian Osseous Projectile Points -- 17 Survivorship Distributions in Experimental Spear Points: Implications for Tool Design and Assemblage Formation -- 8 Morphological Diversification of Stemmed Projectile Points of Patagonia (Southernmost South America). Assessing Spatial Patterns by Means of Phylogenies and Comparative Methods -- 19 Hunting Technologies during the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu Cave: What They Reveal about Human Cognition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, between ~ 65 and 62 ka -- 20 Summary and Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating their cognitive and evolutionary significance. New archaeological finds and experimental studies have helped to bring this subject back to the forefront of human origins research. In the last few years, investigations have expanded beyond examining the tools themselves to include studies of damage caused by projectile weapons on animal and hominin bones and skeletal asymmetries in ancient hominin populations. Only recently has there been a growing interest in controlled and replicative experiments. Through this book readers will be updated in the state of knowledge through a multidisciplinary scientific reconstruction of prehistoric weapon use and its implications. Contributions from expert authors are organized into three themed parts: recognizing weapon use (experimental and archaeological studies of impact traces), performance of weapon systems (factors influencing penetration depth etc.), and behavioral and evolutionary ramifications (cognitive and ecological effects of using different weapons).