Environmental Impact Assessment: Incorporating Sustainability Principles

By Tor Hundloe

Part I The Background to Environmental Impact Assessment.- 1 Environmental Impact Assessment: The Awakening.- 2 Linking EIA to the Principles of Sustainable Development.- 3 Sustainability Perspectives: Ecological, Economic and Social.- 4 EIA Laws and Policies: From NEPA to the World.- Part II Tightening the Nuts and Bolts of EIA.- 5 If We Don't Need The Project, Don't Build It.- 6 The Special Case of Mining.- 7 Whose Need and at What Cost?.- 8 Maslow and the Need to Survive.- 9 Distorting Need.- 10 Project Alternatives and Other EIA Principles.- 11 Ethical Dilemmas in EIA.- 12 Public Involvement.- 13 The Baselines and Uncertainty.- Part III Offsetting Environmental Damage.- 14 The Principles of Offsetting.- 15 Can We Convert Biodiversity into Dollars?.- 16 Illustrating Offsets.- Part IV What Is to Be Done?.- 17 Faults to Fix in the EIA Game.- 18 Improving the Quality of EIAs: Professionalism.- 19 Specialist and Generalist Earth Doctors.- 20 The A to Z of Environmental Qualifications

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030809412
• ISBN13: 9783030809416
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"