Globally, environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the most enduring and influential environmental management tools. This handbook provides readers with a strong foundation for understanding the practice of EIA, by outlining the different types of assessment while also providing a guide to best practice.
This collection deploys a research and practice-based approach to the subject, delivering an overview of EIA as an essential and practical tool of environmental protection, planning, and policy. To best understand the most pertinent issues and challenges surrounding EIA today, this volume draws together prominent researchers, practitioners, and young scholars who share their work and knowledge to cover two key parts. The first part introduces EIA processes and best practices through analytical and critical chapters on the stages/elements of the EIA process and different components and forms of assessment. These provide examples that cover a wide range of assessment methods and cross-cutting issues, including cumulative effects assessment, social impact assessment, Indigenous-led assessment, risk assessment, climate change, and gender-based assessment. The second part provides jurisdictional reviews of the European Union, the US National Environmental Policy Act, recent assessment reforms in Canada, EIA in developing economies, and the EIA context in England.
By providing a concise outline of the process followed by in-depth illustrations of approaches, methods and tools, and case studies, this book will be essential for students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental impact assessment.
Edited by:
Kevin Hanna
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 9781032130019
ISBN 10: 1032130016
Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part 1: Types of Assessment, Issues, and Practices 1. A brief introduction to environmental impact assessment 2. Strategic environmental assessment: one name multiple concepts 3. Cumulative effects assessment 4. Social impact assessment 5. Risk assessment and risk management 6. Sustainability assessment principles and practices 7. Climate change in environmental assessment 8. Health impact assessment 9. Environmental Impact Assessment and Disaster Risk Management 10. Regional assessment 11. Gender-based analysis and environmental impact assessments 12. Geographic information sciences in environmental impact Assessment 13. Indigenous impact assessment 14. Innovative approaches to achieving meaningful public participation in next generation impact assessment Part 2. Jurisdictional Profiles 15. EIA best practice for the developing world 16. The European Union Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 17. The US National Environmental Policy Act 18. Environmental assessment in England 19. Environmental assessment reform in Canada
Kevin Hanna is Director of the Centre for Environmental Assessment Research at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
