Environmental impact assessment : incorporating sustainability principles / Tor Hundloe.
Hundloe, T. J. A. (Torstein John Arneson), author.
2021
TD194.6 .H86 2021eb
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Title Environmental impact assessment : incorporating sustainability principles / Tor Hundloe.
Author Hundloe, T. J. A. (Torstein John Arneson), author.
ISBN 9783030809423 (ebook)
3030809420 (ebook)
9783030809416 (paperback)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80942-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-80942-3 doi
Call Number TD194.6 .H86 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.714
Summary This book provides a detailed treatment of the ecological, economic and social impacts in the context of environmental impact assessment (EIA) and makes clear the necessary link between EIA and the sustainability principles of protecting biodiversity, risk aversion, and inter and intra-generational equity. It proposes that the benefits and costs of a project need to be weighted according to who bears them, giving particular attention to the planet's poor. Furthermore, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of environmental offsetting which has come to be commonly resorted to when negative impacts cannot be mitigated. In this context, the book argues that offsetting is only viable if advanced offsets are quarantined through a Strategic Environmental Impact approach. Finally, the book explores the role of the various disciplines which need to be mastered in undertaking an EIA. This book takes you on a journey from the beginning of environmental impact assessment to the present day. It is a scholarly warts and all study. For each trial and tribulation, Hundloe presents a remedy. It is essential reading and an invaluable reference for environmental practitioners, politicians, policy makers, academics and, the most important group, future environmental practitioners. Tor Hundloe is a pioneer of environmental impact assessment. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland and an original staff member of the world's first environmental school, at Griffith University. His research has taken him to environmental hot spots around the world. He has the prestigious Order of Australia.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in environmental policy and regulation.
Available in Other Form Environmental impact assessment.
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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.

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