Environmental Assessment (Routledge Environmental Management)

✍ Scribed by Owen Harrop

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text explains what constitutes good practice in applying environmental assessment as an environmental management tool. A wide range of case studies and other student text features are employed to demonstrate how the different methods, techniques and disciplines of environmental assessment can be used. The authors address the key concepts for environmental assessment procedures: methods for using E.A.; techniques for impact prediction and evaluation; environmental risk assessment; EA consultation and participation; project management; environmental statement review and post-project analysis; and strategic environmental assessment.Worldwide case studies include: gas pipelines, hydroelectric power plants, gold mining, river crossings, waste-to-energy plants and gravel extraction in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the USA, Venezuela, the Netherlands, Iceland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Ghana.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Introduction to environmental assessment purpose and procedures......Page 16
2 Environmental assessment methods......Page 30
3 Techniques for impact prediction and evaluation......Page 48
4 Environmental risk assessment......Page 88
5 Consultation and participation the public role in environmental assessment......Page 104
6 Managing the EA process......Page 124
7 Quality assurance in EA ES review and post project analysis......Page 144
8 Strategic environmental assessment......Page 166
9 EA in practice......Page 188
The final word......Page 218
Further reading......Page 220
References......Page 222
Index......Page 236