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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)

Environmental Impact Assessment

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherent methodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherent methodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Perspectives on Environmental Impact Assessment

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 ...

By Earthprint Ltd

The Application of Economic Techniques in Environmental Impact Assessment

This volume is based on a number of reports prepared over several years for a research project jointly sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme, the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau and the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council. Since release of the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, the quest has ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Improving Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process in Mining Report

Improving Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process in Mining ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic

Environmental impact assessments are required for a wide-range of projects throughout the world. These assessments have increasing involved complex, political decision-making and incorporated values and beliefs of both stakeholders and interested parties. However, the results are often ineffective because ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Impact Assessment: Training Resource Manual(Second Edition 2002)

The main objective of the TRM is to enable trainers, particularly, in developing countries and ClTs to develop and produce site and situation specific training courses for the different target groups who are concerned with EIA. The use of the TRM will contribute directly to the building of local capacity to develop EIA procedures and legislation, to conduct EIA, administer, monitor and evaluate ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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

Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment

Standards and Thresholds play an important role in many stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. They can be legally-binding or guidance values and are linked to environmental data. This publication provides a comprehensive collection of standards and thresholds, their derivation and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Impact Assessment and Public Participation in the Context of Central European Environmental Decisionmaking: Report of an International Roundtable Discussion

This paper is a report on the inaugural roundtable of the series, the International Roundtable on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Public Participation in Environmental Desicionmaking. This three day roundtable, held in Wroclaw, Poland in April 1992, was a collaborative effort between ELI and the ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention

Tools are needed to define, measure and assess pollution in processes and products, to direct and measure improvements in designing cleaner processes and products, and to design benign processes and products. Life cycle assessment, process simulation and integration, material substitution and environmental ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention

Tools are needed to define, measure and assess pollution in processes and products, to direct and measure improvements in designing cleaner processes and products, and to design benign processes and products. Life cycle assessment, process simulation and integration, material substitution and environmental ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts

Environmental conflicts over sustainability, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), biodiversity, biotechnology and risk, chemicals and public health, are not necessarily legalistic problems but land use problems. Edward Christie shows how solutions for these conflicts can be found via consensual agreement ...

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

A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments

public through environmental impact assessments. In a similar manner, over 40 other countries have ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments

public through environmental impact assessments. In a similar manner, over 40 other countries have ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Radiation and Environmental Safety in North-West Russia

The workshop attracted wide participation from relevant Russian and western organizations. International expertise from several related fields went together to produce a thorough understanding of the present status and how to develop the use of overall risk assessments and environmental impact assessments to ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH