Multicriteria Environmental Assessment: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Nolberto Munier (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 309
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project. A project may influence the lives of many people, can change the physical environment temporarily or forever, and creates benefits or losses, not only for the people who promoted it, but also for those not related whatsoever with the project. Thus, its assessment is not only a commercial evaluation of gains and losses, but it goes far beyond that, for it also has to appraise:

-how people's way of life will be affected;

-how significant the alteration produced in the social fabric will be;

-what the result will be of using certain renewable and non-renewable resources;

-how much the expected economic development will cost in terms of loss of resources sustainability;

-how to measure what is not easily measurable: enjoying a sunset, a stroll in a tropical forest, climbing a mountain, etc.; and

-how to integrate the technical and environmental aspects of projects with the desires, wishes and needs of the population.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
General Information....Pages 3-26
Projects and Impacts....Pages 27-45
Criteria....Pages 47-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Information for EIA....Pages 69-98
Techniques for Environmental Appraisal....Pages 99-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
EIA and Urbanization....Pages 197-233

✦ Subjects

Ecotoxicology; Nature Conservation; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Environmental Management

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