Methods of environmental impact assessment
Title:
Methods of environmental impact assessment
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Peter Morris, Riki Therivel.
Publication Information:
Vancouver : UBC Press, 1995.
Physical Description:
xx, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780774805261
9781857282153
Abstract:
Methods of environmental impact assessment is a practical, up-to-date explanation and guide to how EIAS are, and should be, carried out for specific environmental components (e.g. air, water, ecological systems, socio-economic systems). For each component, it includes a discussion of relevant regulations and standards, how baseline surveys are conducted, how impact predictions are made, what mitigation measures can be used, how the effectiveness of such measures should be monitored, and the limitations of the methods.
Very few books exist on how EIA should be carried out for specific environmental components. Whereas its sister volume, Introduction to environmental impact assessment, concentrates on the EIA principles, procedures and prospects, Methods of environmental impact assessment concentrates on the methods applied for the environmental components. It does not attempt to make specialists of its readers, but aims to foster better communication between experts, a better understanding of how EIAs should be carried out, and better EIA-related decisions. Taken together, the two books provide a comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of EIA.
Written by practising specialists who teach a highly regarded MSc course in environmental assessment and management, and by experts from a major environmental consultancy, Methods of environmental impact assessment is invaluable for: people who organize, review, and make decisions about EIA; environmental planners and managers; students taking first degrees in planning, ecology, geography, environmental studies and related subjects with an EIA content; and postgraduate students taking courses in EIA or environmental management.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-367) and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction / Riki Therivel and Peter Morris -- 2. Socio-economic impacts 1: overview and economic impacts / John Glasson -- 3. Socio-economic impacts 2: social impacts / Andrew Chadwick -- 4. Noise / Riki Therivel -- 5. Traffic / Aidan Hughes -- 6. Landscape / Brian Goodey -- 7. Archaeological and other material and cultural assets / Nicola Bourdillon, Rosemary Braithwaite, David Hopkins and Roger France -- 8. Air and climate / Derek Elsom -- 9. Soils and geology / Martin Hodson -- 10. Water / Peter Morris and Jeremy Biggs -- 11. Ecology -- overview / Peter Morris -- 12. Terrestrial ecology / Peter Morris, David Thurling and Tim Shreeve -- 13. Freshwater ecology / Jeremy Biggs, Antony Corfield, David Walker, Mericia Whitfield and Penny Williams -- 14. Coastal ecology / Stewart Thompson -- 15. Interactions between impacts / Riki Therivel and Peter Morris.