Environmental Impact Assessment for Changing World

Contents: Prologue. Acronyms. 1. The international aspects of the needs of environmental assessment. 2. Environmental assessment in perspective. 3. EIA process. 4. Methodology. 5. Social impact assessment. 6. The urban environmental impact assessment. 7. EIA in developed countries and aid agencies. 8. EIA and international conventions. 9. Environmental Risk Assessments (EnRa). 10. Monitoring and mitigation. 11. Environmental assessment and cont-benefit analysis for sustainability assurance. 12. EIA reporting.

"The importance of environmental protection and conservation measures has been increasingly recognized during the past two decades. It is now generally accepted that economic development strategies must be compatible with environmental goals. This requires the incorporation of environmental dimensions into the process of development. It is important to make choices and decisions that will eventually promote sound development by understanding the environment functions.

A increasing number of developing countries are accepting the principle of environmental screening of development projects at the planning stage and hence are looking for guidelines to environmental impact assessments. Many multi and bilateral agencies stipulate environmental impact assessments of proposed developments as a condition for lending, technical assistance and development support.

The material in this book has been endorsed for environmental science and studies, geography and environment, civil and environmental engineering, soil science, geology, sociology, economics and business related disciplines.

The text has been modified and accumulated with the views from environmental policies of various countries and developing agencies." (jacket)