Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Principles and Purposes of Standards and Thresholds in the EIA Process....Pages 3-17
Standards and Thresholds in German Environmental Law....Pages 19-31
Standards and Thresholds for EA in Highly Polluted Areas — The Approach of Ukraine....Pages 33-48
Poverty and Disease Remediation in the Millennium Development Goals: Time for Kenya to Set Standards and Thresholds?....Pages 49-62
Widening the Scope — Sustainability Indicators, Legal Thresholds and Standards in Portugal....Pages 63-74
Problems in Setting Thresholds....Pages 75-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-88
Requirements on EIA Quality Management....Pages 89-102
Environmental Impact Assessment Standards and Thresholds for Sanitary Landfills....Pages 103-111
Standards and Thresholds for Waste Water Discharges in Mexico....Pages 113-124
Standards for Wastewater Treatment in Brazil....Pages 125-132
Standards for and Evaluation of Small-Scale Dam Projects in Yemen....Pages 133-144
The Need for Developing Thresholds for the Recycling Rate of Products in Thailand....Pages 145-156
Guidelines for SEA in Marine Spatial Planning for the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) — with Special Consideration of Tiering Procedure for SEA and EIA....Pages 157-170
Standards of Implementing Renewable Energy Technologies in Cameroon....Pages 171-183
Standards for Mining and Quarrying....Pages 185-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Thresholds and Standards for Tourism Environmental Impact Assessment....Pages 205-215
Spatial Planning: Indicators to Assess the Efficiency of Land Consumption and Land-Use....Pages 217-228
EIA Performance Standards and Thresholds for Sustainable Forest Management in Ghana....Pages 229-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-242
Critical Loads and Levels Concept for Ecosystems....Pages 243-252
Soil Standards and Thresholds....Pages 253-262
Front Matter....Pages 241-242
Soil Background and Reference Values for PAH and PCB....Pages 263-276
Standards and Indicators for Monitoring Impact of Disturbance on Biodiversity in a Post-Mining Area Using GIS....Pages 277-290
Air Pollution and Climate: Standards for Particulate Matter....Pages 291-299
Standards and Thresholds of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) — Phytoplankton and Lakes....Pages 301-314
Landscape and Protected Areas — Polish Experiences....Pages 315-326
The Use and Misuse of Noise Standards....Pages 327-340
Assessing Environmental Impacts on Human Health — Drinking-Water as an Example....Pages 341-354
Management of Dams in Trans-National River Basins — a Preliminary Sustainability Impact Assessment for the Upper Elbe River Basin....Pages 355-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Environmental Impact of Nano Technology on Human Health....Pages 371-378
Ecotoxicological Risk of Human Pharmaceuticals in Brandenburg Surface Waters?....Pages 379-389
Environmental Oxygenology and Related Thresholds and Standards....Pages 391-403
Quantitative Threshold Values for Strategic Environmental Assessment....Pages 405-418
Front Matter....Pages 419-421
A Method to Monitor the Implementation of Mitigation Measures in Infrastructure Projects — Exemplified with a Project in the Republic of Yemen....Pages 423-432
The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up....Pages 433-446
Consequences of EIA Prediction Uncertainty on Mitigation, Follow-Up and Post-Auditing....Pages 447-461
Environmental Quality Standards as a Tool in Environmental Governance — the Case of Sweden....Pages 463-486
Back Matter....Pages 487-493