Environmental Impact Assessment

This comprehensive treatment of environmental impact assessment (EIA) provides an authoritative contemporary review of theory and practice over the past ten years. EIA is viewed as both science and art, reflecting the concern both with technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process. Adopted in many countries, with different degrees of enthusiasm, since its inception in the early 1970's, EIA is established as a major procedure for assessing the environmental implications of legislation, the implementation of policy and plans and the initiation of development projects. EIA is increasingly an essential part of environmental management

Peter Wathern

I INTRODUCTION 1 An introductory guide to EIA II METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EIA 2 Scoping methods and baseline studies in EIA 3 Developments in EIA methods 4 Uncertainty in EIA 5 Environmental impact assessment and risk assessment: learning from each other 6 EIA in plan making III EFFICACY OF EIA 7 Monitoring and auditing of impacts 8 The evaluation of assessment: post-EIS research and process development 9 Training requirements for environmental impact assessment IV APPLICATION OF EIA 10 The co-evolution of politics and policy: elections, entrepreneurship and EIA in the United States 11 The EIA directive of the European Community 12 The legislative framework for EIA in centrally planned economies 13 The EIA process in Asia and the Pacific region 14 EIA in Latin America I.VEROCAI MOREIRA V EIA AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES 15 WHO interest in environmental health impact assessment 16 Environmental impact assessment and bilateral development aid: an overview 17 Fitting USAID to the environmental assessment provisions of NEPA