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All the laws, terms, documents, and guidance on environmental impact assessment you need -- in one book!

Anyone who has ever had to wade through volumes of regulations and permit procedures. . .been besieged by confusing jargon and unknown acronyms. . .or otherwise wished there were a clear and reliable guide to the essentials of environmental impact assessment, will applaud this comprehensive and intelligently organized book.

Here, for the first time in one convenient volume, are all the key legislation, terminology, and documents you need to know, as well as invaluable guidance through an array of potential environmental impact study areas. You'll find important information on data sources, agency contacts, laws and permits, methodologies, presentation of results, and other practical issues that will give you the tools to tackle questions such as: Whom do I need to contact? Where do I find information? What should be assessed? Is a permit required? Who issues it? Is there a special processing requirement? What's the best way to summarize my results for productive use?

This book provides numerous examples and a host of useful suggestions throughout, while skillfully interweaving the basic requirements with an understanding of the principles underlying environmental impact assessment. There is also an extensive index for direct access to any topic. ... Read more

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For consultants, worth its weight in gold
While not a cookbook, this is definitely a "how-to" book by a woman who's forgotten more about "how to" than I'll ever know. Betty explains not only how to research, analyze, and document the entirespectrum of possible environmental impacts, but why, and she does it ineasily accessible language. The bulk of her experience is intransportation, and it shows in the text, but the principles and proceduresapply to any federal project. I made sure my staff had a copy so theywouldn't keep swiping mine. Thanks, Betty, we needed this...it's everythingyou promised and more!

Lea Ann Perrego, EIT, Sr. Project Manager,McCormick-Taylor Associates

The best all-in-one handbook for environmental practitioners
This would be excellent for use as a college textbook in engineering, planning, or administrative curricula.As a guide throught the environmental regulations maze, it is an invaluable to consultants and agency personnel alike.The advice and tips related to preparing better quality and more efficient environmental documents is well worth the investment in this book. C. Huntington Assistant Vice President Parsons Brinckerhoff ... Read more

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The process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) aims to ensure that development projects have no disastrous environmental and social consequences. This book examines the crucial role of EIA in government decision-making in Europe, North America and Asia. It explains what EIA is and why it is important; outlines the best procedures for assessing projects; shows how to write an environmental impact statement and suggests ways to minimize areas of dispute for government, investors and the community. It is up to date and written from an international perspective for students, practitioners and policy-makers. ... Read more

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The Canter text appeals mainly to Civil Engineering students taking course work in environmental assessment practice or impact assessment, usually taught at the junior/senior level as a popular elective. Some chemical and environmental engineers take the course as well. The author has specifically beefed up and improved the chapters on biological, cultural, and socioeconomic environmental factors. The book continues to emphasize both production and assessment aspects of environmental factors, i.e., air, water, and noise, together with some interesting case studies. The latest governmental methodologies and Environmental Impact Studies have been included in this timely revision. ... Read more

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Comprehensive EIA Resource
At over hundred bucks, this book is not for everybody.But it is the bestall-in-one resource for conducting environmental impact assessments.Thebook is crammed full with tables and diagrams on everything from examplesof project-effects interaction matrices to "A Comparison of FourHabitat Evaluation Methods."Besides introductory and generalhow-to-do-an-EIA material, chapters cover air, surface water,soil/groundwater, noise, biological envt., cultural envt., socioeconomicenvt, visual impacts, and public participation.The writing has ano-nonsense engineering flavor.Not for casual reading, but as aresource/reference for students and professionals this is a high qualitybut overpriced book.

A very complete overview about the EIA process and approache
At this moment, Environmental Impact Assessment process and approaches are in a constant change, requeriments are increased as well as needs for to get a good EIA. Many scientifics are trying to get a holistic vision of theworld affected for any project in order to get the best and close approachfor interprete it. This book shows a complete evolution of the EIA businessas well as avoid new interpretations and applications following the needsand background of the professionals that want use it. ... Read more

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Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment is designed to be the primary text for teaching environmental impact assessment. The focus is procedural training in EIA, with an emphasis on good principles and practices of EIA. It provides extensive case studies, most of which are Canadian
while the others are American, European, and Australian. ... Read more

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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, and 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. This new edition has a new second part, consisting of chapters on "cross-cutting" methods that can be applied to, and can often facilitate integration between, many of the environmental components discussed in the first part. ... Read more

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A WORLDWIDE HELPFUL BOOK
Methods of environmental impact assessmemnt is a comprehensive and panoramic view of how to evaluate the most fundamental variables of the envronment.This in turn is vey helpful for the practiotioner to get acquianted with the variables which a project could have impactas on as well as the different methods of assesing those impacts.
In its two parts which total seventeeth chapters the editor lets the student and the practitioner drink form the knowledge and experience of over thrity authors who know well what they are saying.
This book is a tool that is helping and will continue to help technicians and scientists of the environment worldwide.
This book is really a good library which should be studied by those who are looking for academic rigor as well as practical insight. ... Read more

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development as well as demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This handbook hopes to improve practices by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate.

Volume I 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. This volume concludes by addressing cumulative impact assessment and SEA methods.

Volume II 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.

This book should be read by legislators, decision-makers, economists, developers, industrial managers and consultants involved in this significant field. ... Read more

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A comprehensive, clearly structured and readable overview of the subject, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assesment quickly established itself as the leading introduction to EIA. The second edition introduced and developed many issues of growing importance to the student and practioners of EIA are introduced and developed, for example:
* The ammendments to the EC EIA Directive
* Best Practice in the EIA process
* Major reviews of EIA effectiveness
* Comparative EIA systems worldwide
* Changing Prospects for EIA

The third edition, includes all the latest thinking on EIA and in particular, brings in the most recent changes to the UK legislative context in chapter three.

The book includes comprehensive appendices with a wealth of important reference material. Written by three authors with extensive research, training and practical experience of EIA, this book brings together the most up-to-date infornation from many sources.

Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment, 3rd Edition not only provides a complete introductory text but will also support further studies. Students on undergraduate and postgraduate planning programmes will find it essential as a course text, as will students of enviromental management/policy, enironmental sciences/studies, geography and the built enviroment. Planners, developers and decision makers in government and business will also welcome the new edition as a very effective means of getting to grips with this important subject.

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the mostimportant tools employed in contemporary environmental management.Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherentmethodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: AMethodological Approach provides students and practitionersalike with a rigorous grounding in EIA theory, including biophysical,social, strategic and cumulative assessment activities, and examinesthe crucial role, and limitations, of the science of EIA. Deliberately designed to be relevant world-wide, the author focuses onthe common skills and generic aspects of EIA that underpin all impactassessment work, independent of country or jurisdiction, such asscreening and scoping, impact identification, public involvement,prediction and monitoring, evaluation, and quality control. Thevariety of approaches are identified along with their associatedstrengths and weaknesses, enabling potential, new and experiencedpractitioners to make informed choices and to improve their workingpractices through a better understanding of EIA activity. The ultimate aim of this book is to move from the notion of EIA as atechnical procedure towards a concept of EIA as a particular form ofproblem-solving with varied methodological requirements. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Impact Assessment Review, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The management and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment WEEE was assessed in the city of Delhi, India. In order to do this, the personal computer was defined as the tracer for which a model was designed. The model depicts the entire life cycle of the tracer, from production through sale and consumption-including reuse and refurbishment-to the material recovery in the mainly informal recycling industry. The field work included interviews with the relevant stakeholders, transect walks and literature study, which was followed by a software-supported material flow analysis (MFA) of the whole life cycle chain of the tracer item. In addition to the MFA, several economic aspects of the recycling system were investigated. The study revealed that the life span of a personal computer has considerable influence upon the system, most notably in the following two aspects: (i) a prolonged life span creates value by means of refurbishing and upgrading activities, and (ii) it slows down the flow rate of the whole system. This is one of the simplest ways of preventing an uncontrolled increase in environmentally hazardous emissions by the recycling sector. The material recovery of the system is mainly driven by the precious metal content of personal computers. A first estimate showed that precious metal recovery contributes to over 80% of the personal computer materials' market value, despite the small quantity of them found in computers. ... Read more

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The first integrated text on applied ecology, ecologicalimpact assessment and environmental planning written by abiological ecologist with extensive experience in bothplanning and geography. Ecology critically reviews currentmethods of assessment and provides the conceptual andmethodological basis for advancing the field. It also offers adetailed discussion of legal and planning issues by reviewingcurrent environmental legislation, discussing risk analysisand decision making techniques, and presenting quantitativeeconomic and non-economic techniques for evaluating ecologicalimpacts. ... Read more

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This volume is based on a number of reports prepared overseveral years for a research project jointly sponsored by the UnitedNations Environment Programme, the Australian InternationalDevelopment Assistance Bureau and the Australian and New ZealandEnvironment and Conservation Council.
Since release of the report of the World Commission on Environment andDevelopment, the quest has intensified for methods that combineeconomic analysis and environmental assessments to achieve the goalsof sustainable development.
The main purpose of this volume is to explain how this may beaccomplished. It combines scientific assessments, economic analysisand governmental procedures in an integrated approach to planning foreconomic development and environmental protection. The first fourchapters explain economic concepts and techniques and theirincorporation in EIA procedure. Six carefully selected case studiesare presented, demonstrating practical applications in six differentcountries -- Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, Hawaii andAustralia.
The volume will assist all participants involved in environmentalimpact assessment: public and private development proponents,environmental and conservation groups, public administrators anddecision makers, and interested members of the public. The book isunique in that it combines economics, EIA techniques, procedures, andinstitutional aspects.
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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Impact Assessment Review, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Electronic waste, or e-waste, is an emerging problem as well as a business opportunity of increasing significance, given the volumes of e-waste being generated and the content of both toxic and valuable materials in them. The fraction including iron, copper, aluminium, gold and other metals in e-waste is over 60%, while pollutants comprise 2.70%. Given the high toxicity of these pollutants especially when burned or recycled in uncontrolled environments, the Basel Convention has identified e-waste as hazardous, and developed a framework for controls on transboundary movement of such waste. The Basel Ban, an amendment to the Basel Convention that has not yet come into force, would go one step further by prohibiting the export of e-waste from developed to industrializing countries. Section 1 of this paper gives readers an overview on the e-waste topic-how e-waste is defined, what it is composed of and which methods can be applied to estimate the quantity of e-waste generated. Considering only PCs in use, by one estimate, at least 100 million PCs became obsolete in 2004. Not surprisingly, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) today already constitutes 8% of municipal waste and is one of the fastest growing waste fractions. Section 2 provides insight into the legislation and initiatives intended to help manage these growing quantities of e-waste. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is being propagated as a new paradigm in waste management. The European Union's WEEE Directive, which came into force in August of 2004, makes it incumbent on manufacturers and importers in EU states to take back their products from consumers and ensure environmentally sound disposal. WEEE management in industrializing countries has its own characteristics and problems, and therefore this paper identifies some problems specific to such countries. The risky process of extracting copper from printed wiring boards is discussed as an example to illustrate the hazards of the e-waste recycling industry in India. The WEEE Knowledge Partnership programme funded by seco (Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) and implemented by Empa has developed a methodology to assess the prevailing situation, in order to better understand the opportunities and risks in pilot urban areas of three countries-Beijing-China, Delhi-India and Johannesburg-South Africa. The three countries are compared using an assessment indicator system which takes into account the structural framework, the recycling system and its various impacts. Three key points have emerged from the assessments so far: a) e-waste recycling has developed in all countries as a market based activity, b) in China and India it is based on small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the informal sector, whereas in South Africa it is in the formal sector, and c) each country is trying to overcome shortcomings in the current system by developing strategies for improvement. ... Read more