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Guidance Document on Biodiversity, Impact Asessment & Decision Making in Southern Africa

This document provides guidance for decision-makers on a range of biodiversity principles and issues which confront decision-makers every day when they evaluate impact assessments. It is based on the findings of a Situation Assessment conducted as part of the Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact ...

By International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)

Multicriteria Environmental Assessment

The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project. A project may influence the lives of many people, can change the physical environment temporarily or ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment - Afghanistan

This report presents facts on the state of the environment, specific findings concerning the urban environment and the natural resources if Afghanistan and recommendations on how to improve environmental conditions and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Environmental Assessment of Products

This major two volume work presents a new decision making tool which enables manufacturers and scientists to undertake life cycle assessment (LCA) of new products from the design and development stages. The methodology allows the environmental consequences of a product to enter into decision making in the same ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Assessment of Products

This major two volume work presents a new decision making tool which enables manufacturers and scientists to undertake life-cycle assessment (LCA) of new products from the design and development stages. The methodology allows the enviromental consequences of a product to enter into decision making in the same ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Assessment of Products

This major two volume work presents a new decision making tool which enables manufacturers and scientists to undertake life-cycle assessment (LCA) of new products from the design and development stages. The methodology allows the enviromental consequences of a product to enter into decision making in the same ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assessment and Early Warning

This report seeks to help the understanding of key questions relating to gender mainstreaming into UNEP"s early warning and assessment programme. It analyses key issues in the areas of gender and the environment as they relate to water, poverty, security, conflict, early warning, disaster and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Lebanon Post Conflict Environmental Assessment

Beirut/Nairobi, 2 October 2006 - An international team of experts will begin an assessment of the environmental damage in Lebanon caused by the recent conflict. The team, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and working in close cooperation with the Lebanese authorities, will be ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Managing and Preparing Environmental Assessments: A Comprehensive Guide to NEPA EAs and International Environmental Impact Assessment

"Although upwards of 50,000 Environmental Assessments (EA) are prepared annually, the focus of the National Environmental Policy Acts (NEPA) Regulations is clearly on defining requirements for preparing environmental impact statements. Surprisingly, until now, there has been no authoritative and comprehensive ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Strategic Environmental Assessment in Europe

This book consists of papers and final recommendations on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), presented at the 4th European EIA Workshop which was held from 29 May to 1 June 1997 in Potsdam, Germany. The main objectives of this workshop were to specify current SEA-related methodologies and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessemnt : Toward an Integrated Approach

This document on "Environmental Impact Assesment and Strategic Environmental Assessment : Towards an Integrated Approach" updates the earlier UNEP publication on "Environmental Impact Assessment : Issues, Trends & Practice". As before, it provides a companion volume to the UNEP "EIA Training Resource ...

By Earthprint Ltd

The 1991 Gulf War : environmental assessments of IUCN and collaborators

After the storm : assessing coastal environmental consequences of the 1991 Gulf War This book summarizes the results of survey under-taken by IUCN and collaborators of the immediate and mid-term environmental damage arising from the Gulf War, in particular the massive oil ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Ecological Indicators for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Assessment: A User Guide

Ecological indicators address ecosystems structure and/or function and are commonly used to provide synoptic information about their state. Through quantitative representations of either the forces that steer ecosystems, responses to forcing functions, or of previous, current, or future states of an ecosystem, indicators are expected to reveal conditions and trends that will help in development ...

By WIT Press

Environmental Site Assessment Phase I: Fundamentals, Guidelines, and Regulations, Third Edition

Extensively updated to reflect the most recent changes to the All Appropriate Inquiries Rule (the “Rule”) and the ASTM Environmental Site Assessment Standard (the “Standard”), Environmental Site Assessment Phase 1, Third Edition provides a valuable guide to the techniques of performing Phase 1 site ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Site Auditing: Environmental Assessment of Property

Since 1980 when the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) introduced punitive legislation, potential environmental liability associated with contaminated property became a matter of utmost concern to parties involved in real estate transactions. Environmental ...

By Specialty Technical Publishers (STP)

Environmental Site Assessment Phase I: Fundamentals, Guidelines, and Regulations, Third Edition

Extensively updated to reflect the most recent changes to the All Appropriate Inquiries Rule (the “Rule”) and the ASTM Environmental Site Assessment Standard (the “Standard”), Environmental Site Assessment Phase 1, Third Edition provides a valuable guide to the techniques of performing Phase 1 site ...

By Taylor & Francis Group (USA)

Environmental Assessment of the Gaza Strip, following the escalation of hostilities in December 2008 - January 2009

This report and its findings are based on field work by a team of international experts deployed by UNEP following its Governing Council’s Decision 25/12 in February 2009, requesting UNEP to assess the environmental damage and carry out an economic evaluation of the rehabilitation and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Oil and gas exploration and production in Arctic and subarctic onshore regions : guidelines for environmental protection (Russian)

of IUCN’s Environmental Assessment ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Diatoms and Lake Acidity

John P. Smol is a professor in the Biology Department at Queen's University (Canada), with a cross-appointment at the School of Environmental Studies. He co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL). Professor Smol is co-editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology and holds the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Oil exploration in the tropics : guidelines for environmental protection

of IUCN’s Environmental Assessment ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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