Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment

✍ Scribed by Peter Morris, Riki Therivel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 509
• Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Methods of environmental impact assessmemnt is a comprehensive and panoramic view of how to evaluate the most fundamental variables of the envronment. This in turn is vey helpful for the practiotioner to get acquianted with the variables which a project could have impactas on as well as the different methods of assesing those impacts.
In its two parts which total seventeeth chapters the editor lets the student and the practitioner drink form the knowledge and experience of over thrity authors who know well what they are saying.
This book is a tool that is helping and will continue to help technicians and scientists of the environment worldwide.
This book is really a good library which should be studied by those who are looking for academic rigor as well as practical insight.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
1 Introduction......Page 20
2 Socio-economic impacts 1: overview and economic impacts......Page 37
3 Socio-economic impacts 2: social impacts......Page 59
4 Noise......Page 82
5 Transport......Page 100
6 Landscape......Page 122
7 Archaeological and other material and cultural assets......Page 139
8 Air quality and climate......Page 162
9 Soils, geology and geomorphology......Page 187
10 Water......Page 214
11 Ecology – overview and terrestrial systems......Page 260
12 Freshwater ecology......Page 303
13 Coastal ecology and geomorphology......Page 332
14 Environmental risk assessment and risk management......Page 368
15 Environmental Remote Sensing (RS)......Page 382
16 Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and EIA......Page 398
17 Quality of Life Capital......Page 419
Appendices......Page 426
Glossary......Page 486
Index......Page 496