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Environmental impact assessment : theory and practice /
Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Practice describes the various pieces of knowledge necessary to speak the language of EIA and carry out EIAs focusing on a variety of environmental issues, including impacts on environmental components, like air, water, soils, land, noise and biological en...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kidlington, Oxford ; Cambridge, MA :
Elsevier Ltd. : Butterworth-Heinemann,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Practice; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; About the author; Chapter 1: Conceptual facets of EIA; 1.1. Definition of EIA; 1.1.1. Environmental concerns; 1.1.2. Environmental indicators; 1.2. Types of EIA; 1.2.1. Strategic EIA (SEIA); 1.2.2. Regional EIA; 1.2.3. Sectoral ElA; 1.2.4. Project level EIA; 1.2.5. Life cycle assessment (LCA); 1.3. Grouping of environmental impacts; 1.3.1. Direct impacts; 1.3.2. Indirect impacts; 1.3.3. Cumulative impacts; 1.3.4. Induced impacts; 1.4. EIA principles and process; 1.4.1. EIA principles.
- 1.4.2. EIA process1.4.3. EIA benefits and flaws; 1.5. Environmental impact statement (EIS); 1.5.1. Draft EIS; 1.5.2. Final EIS; 1.5.3. Supplemental EIS; 1.6. Environmental Due Diligence (EDD) process; 1.6.1. Procedure to EDD; 1.7. Objectives of EIA; 1.8. Environmental impacts analysis; 1.8.1. Significant environmental impacts; 1.8.2. The stages of environmental impact analysis; 1.8.3. Stages of development; 1.9. Environmental sustainability; 1.9.1. Guiding principles; 1.9.2. The three pillars of sustainability; 1.10. Climate change and EIA; Chapter 2: EIA study planning and management.
- 2.1. Key issues2.2. Conceptual approach; 2.2.1. Project description and need (PDN); 2.2.2. Pertinent institutional information (PII); 2.2.3. Identification of potential impacts (IPI); 2.2.4. Description of affected environment (DAE); 2.2.5. Impact prediction (IP); 2.2.6. Impact assessment (IA); 2.2.7. Impact mitigation (IM); 2.2.8. Selecting the proposed action (SPA); 2.2.9. Preparing written documentation (PWD); 2.2.10. Environmental monitoring (EM); 2.3. Proposal development; 2.4. EIA team; 2.4.1. Interdisciplinary approach; 2.4.2. Factors of selection of team; 2.4.3. Attributes of EIA team.
- 2.5. Team leader selection and duties2.6. General study management; 2.7. Fiscal control; 2.7.1. EIA project budgeting; 2.7.2. Critics of EIA report; 2.8. EIA project management; 2.8.1. Project manager; 2.8.2. Role of EIA project manager; 2.8.3. Control mechanism of project management; Chapter 3: Baseline data and environmental setting; 3.1. Creation of EIA data base; 3.1.1. Satellite data and topomaps; 3.1.2. Data analysis methods; 3.1.3. Data type and source; 3.1.4. Data compilation; 3.2. EIA data products; 3.2.1. Thematic data products; 3.2.2. Topographic data products; 3.2.3. Field data.
- 3.2.4. Collateral data3.3. Environmental setting; 3.3.1. Conceptual framework; 3.3.2. Monitoring stations; 3.3.3. Environmental inventory; 3.4. Environmental baseline monitoring; 3.4.1. Types of EIA monitoring; 3.4.2. Requirements for EBM; 3.4.3. Planning of EBM; 3.5. Initial environmental evaluation; 3.6. Baseline data generation; 3.6.1. Environmental attributes; 3.6.2. Meteorological data; 3.6.3. Ambient air quality data; 3.6.4. Noise quality data; 3.6.5. Water quality data; 3.6.6. Geology and hydro-geological aspects; 3.6.7. Soil quality data; 3.6.8. Flora and Fauna studies.