Environmental Impact Assessment: Incorporating Sustainability Principles (Hardcover, 2021)

Prologue.-SECTION ONE: THE BACKGROUND TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT.-Chapter One: Environmental Impact Assessment: A New Idea and a New Profession.-Chapter Two: Linking EIA to the Principles of Sustainable Development.-Chapter Three: Sustainability Perspectives: Ecology, Economics and Social.-Chapter Four: EIA Laws and Policies: From NEPA to the World.-SECTION TWO: TIGHTENING THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF EIA.-Chapter Five: If We Don’t Need the Project, Don’t Build It.-Chapter Six: The Special Case of Mining.-Chapter Seven: Whose Need and at What Cost?.-Chapter Eight: Maslow and the Need Survive.-Chapter Nine: Distorting Need.-Chapter Ten: Project Alternatives and Other EIA Principles.-Chapter Eleven: Ethical Dilemmas in EIA.-Chapter Twelve: Public Involvement.-Chapter Thirteen:  The Baseline and Uncertainty.-SECTION THREE: OFFSETTING ENVIRONMENTAL DAMA.-Chapter Fourteen:  The Principles of Offsetting.-Chapter Fifteen: Can We Convert Biodiversity into to Dollars?.-Chapter Sixteen:  Illustrating Offsets.-SECTION FOUR: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?.-Chapter Seventeen: Faults to Fix in the EIA Game.-Chapter Eighteen: Improving the Quality of EIAs: Professionalism.-Chapter Nineteen: Specialist and Generalist Earth Doctors.- Chapter Twenty: The A to Z of Environmental Qualifications