Routledge handbook of environmental impact assessment / edited by Kevin Hanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanna, Kevin S. (Kevin Stuart), 1961- editor.

Series:

Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental impact analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 361 p.) : ill.

Other Title:

Handbook of environmental impact assessment

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I: Types of assessment, issues, and practices

1. An introduction to environmental impact assessment / Kevin Hanna and Lauren Arnold

2. Strategic environmental assessment : a spectrum of understanding / Maria Partidario

3. Cumulative effects assessment / Bram Noble

4. Assessing social impacts and promoting sustainability / Anne Merrild Hansen

5. Risk assessment and risk analysis / Ayla De Grandpre and Karaline Reimer

6. Sustainability assessment principles and practices / Angus Morrison Saunders, Jenny Pope, Alan Bond, and Francois Retief

7. Climate change in environmental assessment in Europe: a lot of potential and a lot to do / Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer and Thomas B Fischer

8. Health impact assessment / Chris Buse

9. Environmental impact assessment and disaster risk management / Troy McMillan

10. Regional assessment / Lauren Arnold, Chris Buse, Rob Friberg, Bram Noble, and Kevin Hanna

11. Gender analysis and environmental impact assessments: challenges and opportunities for transformative approaches / Priya Bala-Miller, Nicole Peletz, and Kevin Hanna

12. Application of geographic information sciences, spatial analysis, and remote sensing in environmental impact assessment / Mathieu Bourbonnais

13. Indigenous impact assessment: a quite revolution in EIA? / Alistair Macdonald and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh

14. Innovative approaches to achieving meaningful public participation in next-generation impact assessment / John Sinclair, Alan P. Diduck, and John R. Parkins

Part II: Jurisdictional profiles

15. A practitioner's guide to EIA in developing countries / Francois Retief, Reece C Alberts, Claudine Roos, and Dirk P Cilliers

16. The European Union Environmental Impact Assessment Directive: strengths and weaknesses of current practice / Gesa Geissler, Johann Köppel, and Marie Grimm

17. The United States National Environmental Policy Act: history, process and, politics / Matt Lindstrom and Ben West

18. EIA in England / Josh Fothergill and Thomas B Fischer

19. Environmental assessment reform in Canada / Jeffrey Nishima-Miller

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429282492 (e-book)

9780367244477 (hbk.)

9780429282492

OCLC:

1290244154