Environmental impact assessment [[electronic resource] ] : theory and practice / / [edited by] Peter Wathern (Internationales Institut für Umwelt und Gesellschaft)

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Boston, : Unwin Hyman, 1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.71; 333.714
• Soggetto topico: Environmental impact analysis; Environmental policy
• Altri autori: WathernPeter
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Contributors; I INTRODUCTION; 1 An introductory guide to EIA; Some terms; Major issues in the EIA process; The EIA process; EIA in the decision-making process; Conclusions; II METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EIA; 2 Scoping methods and baseline studies in EIA; Introduction; Scoping in EIA; Baseline studies in EIA; Conclusion; 3 Developments in EIA methods; Introduction; Index approaches; Multi-attribute utility theory; Systems diagrams; Simulation modelling ; Sound ecological principles: the new approach to EIAConclusions; 4 Uncertainty in EIA; Introduction; The relationship between uncertainty and EIA-a first glance; Uncertainty and EIA-further exploration; Uncertainty in prediction; Uncertainty in the 'EIA approach'; Concluding remarks; 5 Environmental impact assessment and risk assessment: learning from each other; Professional communities; Substance; Process; Prospects for unified analysis; Substance, process and outcomes; Acknowledgement; 6 EIA in plan making; Introduction; The plan-making process; Integration of EIA and plan-making processes ; Methods for the EIA of plansCase studies of EIA in plan making; Conclusions; III EFFICACY OF EIA; 7 Monitoring and auditing of impacts; Introduction; Impact monitoring schemes; Uses of monitoring data; Audit studies; The CEMP audit study; Implications of results from EIA audit studies; Conclusion; 8 The evaluation of assessment: post-EIS research and process development; Introduction; Organizing perspectives; The role and scope of post-EIS evaluation; A strategy for the application of research; Canadian trends in research and development; Retrospect and prospect; Acknowledgements ; 9 Training requirements for environmental impact assessmentThe case for training; Identifying training needs; Existing training provision and its deficiencies; Improving training provision; Acknowledgements; IV APPLICATION OF EIA; 10 The co-evolution of politics and policy: elections, entrepreneurship and EIA in the United States; Introduction: EIA scholarship transformed; The entrepreneurial origins of policy change; EIA and the reformation of continuing relations: the Taylor thesis on co-evolution in the USA; Entrepreneurship and the impact assessment strategy in California; Conclusions ; 11 The EIA directive of the European CommunityIntroduction; EC policy and Community institutions; Environmental assessment provisions in member states; Evolution of the EC directive; Content of the directive; Implementation in the United Kingdom; Conclusions; Postscript; 12 The legislative framework for EIA in centrally planned economies; Introduction; Constitutional foundations of environmental protection; Legal aspects of environmental protection; Environmental protection in the planning system; The scope for adopting EIA in centrally planned economies; EIA procedures in Poland; Conclusions ; 13 The EIA process in Asia and the Pacific region
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, reflecting the concern both with technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process. Adopted in many countries, with different degrees of enthusiasm, since its inception in the early 1970's, EIA is established as a major procedure for assessing the environmental implications of legislation, the implementation of policy and plans and the initiation of developme
• Titolo autorizzato: Environmental impact assessment
• ISBN: 1-134-89771-5; 1-138-13744-8; 1-280-32239-X; 9786610322398; 0-203-40997-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910222240803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II