Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Practice

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 18
List of Contributors......Page 20
INTRODUCTION......Page 22
An introductory guide to EIA......Page 24
METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EIA......Page 52
Scoping methods and baseline studies in EIA......Page 54
Developments in EIA methods......Page 68
Uncertainty in EIA......Page 83
Environmental impact assessment and risk assessment: learning from each other......Page 106
EIA in plan making......Page 119
EFFICACY OF EIA......Page 136
Monitoring and auditing of impacts......Page 138
The evaluation of assessment: post-EIS research and process development......Page 150
Training requirements for environmental impact assessment......Page 164
APPLICATION OF EIA......Page 180
The co-evolution of politics and policy: elections, entrepreneurship and EIA in the United States......Page 182
The EIA directive of the European Community......Page 213
The legislative framework for EIA in centrally planned economies......Page 231
The EIA process in Asia and the Pacific region......Page 246
EIA in Latin America......Page 260
EIA AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES......Page 276
WHO interest in environmental health impact assessment......Page 278
Environmental impact assessment and bilateral development aid: an overview......Page 293
Fitting USAID to the environmental assessment provisions of NEPA......Page 307
References......Page 321
Index......Page 346