{"product_id":"handbook-of-environmental-impact-assessment-volume-1-isbn-9780632047727","title":"Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, Volume 1","description":"Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development and demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This handbook hopes to improve practice by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate.  \u003cp\u003eVolume I addresses EIA principles, process and methods. Part 1 maps the EIA process and its impact on decision, and positions EIA in the context of sustainable development as well as the other decision tools, including economic valuation. It also positions strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in a similar way. Part 2 addresses the elements of the EIA process and significant impact assessment topics (air, water, ecological, social, risk, landscape and visual), not only in terms of good practice but also methodological evolution. The volume concludes by addressing cumulative impact assessment and SEA methods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume 2 provides a unique consideration for EIA implementation and practice in Europe, Africa, the Far East, South America and North America. It uses a number of project types to provide 'how to do' guidance and addresses practice in policy and plan assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book should be read by legislators, decision-makers, economists, developers, industrial managers and consultants involved in this significant field.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I: EIA As a Decision Tool\u003c\/b\u003e:. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEIA and Sustainable Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEIA Versus other Environmental Management Tools.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrategic Environmental Assessment - Principles and Potential.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriteria and Standards for Assessing Significant Impact.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEIA, CBA and the Valuation of Environmental Impacts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEIA Impact on Decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Participation and EIA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEIA and Information Technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: EIA Process and Methods\u003c\/b\u003e:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScreening, Scoping and Site-Selection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEIA Monitoring and Auditing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAir Quality Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWater Impact Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Impact Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcological Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLandscape and Visual Impact Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCumulative Effects Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethods of Strategic Environmental Assessment\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJudith Irene Petts CBE is the Vice-Chancellor of Plymouth University. She graduated from the University of Exeter and Loughborough University.   Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development, not least demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This Handbook hopes to improve practice by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first volume addresses EIA principles, process and methods. Part 1 maps the EIA process and its impact on decision. It positions EIA in the context of sustainable development and relative to other decision tools, including economic valuation. It also positions strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in a similar way. Part 2 addresses the elements of the EIA process and significant impact assessment topics - air, water, ecological, social, risk, landscape and visual - not only in terms of good practice but also methodological evolution. The volume concludes by addressing cumulative impact assessment and SEA methods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume 2 provides a unique consideration for EIA implementation and practice - in Europe, Africa, the Far East, South America and North America. 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