Environmental impact assessment [[electronic resource] ] : practical solutions to recurrent problems / / David P. Lawrence

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829829403321
• Autore: Lawrence David P (David Phillip), <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-36773-3; 9786610367733; 0-470-23915-8; 0-471-46572-0; 0-471-72202-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (578 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.31; 333.714
• Soggetti: Environmental impact analysis
• 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 (p. 517-547) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Highlights; 1.2 A Not-So-Hypothetical Scenario; 1.3 First Principles; 1.4 The Basics; 1.5 The Baseline; 1.6 A Structure; 1.7 A Strategy; 1.8 A Road Map; 1.9 Summing Up; 2 CONVENTIONAL EIA PROCESSES; 2.1 Highlights; 2.2 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 2.3 Conventional Regulatory EIA Approaches; 2.4 Conventional Applied Processes; 2.5 Summing Up; 3 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE RIGOROUS; 3.1 Highlights; 3.2 Insights from Practice; 3.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 3.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route3.5 Instituting a Scientific EIA Process; 3.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness; 3.7 Summing Up; 4 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE RATIONAL; 4.1 Highlights; 4.2 Insights from Practice; 4.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 4.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route; 4.5 Instituting a Rational EIA Process; 4.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness; 4.7 Summing Up; 5 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE SUBSTANTIVE; 5.1 Highlights; 5.2 Insights from Practice; 5.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 5.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route; 5.5 Instituting a Substantive EIA Process5.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness; 5.7 Summing Up; 6 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE PRACTICAL; 6.1 Highlights; 6.2 Insights from Practice; 6.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 6.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route; 6.5 Instituting a Practical EIA Process; 6.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness; 6.7 Summing Up; 7 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE DEMOCRATIC; 7.1 Highlights; 7.2 Insights from Practice; 7.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 7.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route; 7.5 Instituting a Democratic EIA Process; 7.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness7.7 Summing Up; 8 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE COLLABORATIVE; 8.1 Highlights; 8.2 Insights from Practice; 8.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 8.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route; 8.5 Instituting a Collaborative EIA Process; 8.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness; 8.7 Summing Up; 9 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE ETHICAL; 9.1 Highlights; 9.2 Insights from Practice; 9.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 9.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route; 9.5 Instituting an Ethical EIA Process; 9.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness; 9.7 Summing Up; 10 HOW TO MAKE EIAs MORE ADAPTIVE10.1 Highlights; 10.2 Insights from Practice; 10.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 10.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route; 10.5 Instituting an Adaptive EIA Process; 10.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness; 10.7 Summing Up; 11 HOW TO CONNECT AND COMBINE EIA PROCESSES; 11.1 Highlights; 11.2 Insights from Practice; 11.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction; 11.4 Composite Regulatory Frameworks; 11.5 Matching Process and Context; 11.6 Process Interconnections; 11.7 Composite EIA Processes; 11.8 Challenges and Priorities; 11.9 Scenario Postscript
• Sommario/riassunto: This book challenges the prevailing assumption that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should be structured around a unitary EIA process. The book begins by identifying, through a scenario, eight recurrent problems in EIA practice. The characteristics of multiple variations of conventional EIA processes, at both the regulatory and applied levels, are then presented. The residual problems that remain after the conventional processes are described and assessed providing the springboard for a description and analysis of eight alternative EIA processes.