Sustainability Appraisal: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience

By Barry Dalal-Clayton and Barry Sadler

Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to illustrate the status and scope of Sustainability Appraisal/Assessment (SA) This comprehensive guide highlights how SA can be used to analyse and integrate the key environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability into decision-making at all levels, from policy to project to investment, by government, business and industry, or international organizations.

Distilling both published and unpublished materials, and with contributions from a range of leading experts, organizations and agencies, this book will be of significant value to professionals everywhere who are in need of a solid, reference guide to what constitutes SA practice and, more importantly, how and when it can be applied.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844073572
• ISBN13: 9781844073573
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 856 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.1" x 9.9"