Environmental impact assessment : practical solutions to recurrent problems

Title:

Personal Author:

Lawrence, David P. (David Phillip), 1947-

Publication Information:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, 2003

ISBN:

9780471457220

Subject Term:

Environmental impact analysis

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This book challenges the prevailing assumption that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should be structured around a unitary EIA process. The book begins by identifying, through a scenario, eight recurrent problems in EIA practice. The characteristics of multiple variations of conventional EIA processes, at both the regulatory and applied levels, are then presented. The residual problems that remain after the conventional processes are described and assessed providing the springboard for a description and analysis of eight alternative EIA processes.

Author Notes

David P. Lawrence, PhD, has been an EIA practitioner for more than twenty-five years and is currently President of Lawrence Environmental. He is also a member of the Planning Institute of British Columbia, the International Association for Impact Assessment, and the National Association of Environmental Professionals

Preface	p. xi
1 Introduction	p. 1
1.1 Highlights	p. 1
1.2 A Not-So-Hypothetical Scenario	p. 2
1.3 First Principles	p. 4
1.4 The Basics	p. 7
1.5 The Baseline	p. 9
1.6 A Structure	p. 13
1.7 A Strategy	p. 18
1.8 A Road Map	p. 19
1.9 Summing Up	p. 21
2 Conventional EIA Processes	p. 23
2.1 Highlights	p. 23
2.2 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 24
2.3 Conventional Regulatory EIA Approaches	p. 26
2.4 Conventional Applied Processes	p. 51
2.5 Summing Up	p. 71
3 How to Make EIAs More Rigorous	p. 89
3.1 Highlights	p. 89
3.2 Insights from Practice	p. 90
3.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 93
3.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 94
3.5 Instituting a Scientific EIA Process	p. 108
3.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 116
3.7 Summing Up	p. 121
4 How to Make EIAs More Rational	p. 127
4.1 Highlights	p. 127
4.2 Insights from Practice	p. 128
4.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 130
4.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 132
4.5 Instituting a Rational EIA Process	p. 143
4.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 150
4.7 Summing Up	p. 152
5 How to Make EIAs More Substantive	p. 159
5.1 Highlights	p. 159
5.2 Insights from Practice	p. 160
5.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 162
5.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 166
5.5 Instituing a Substantive EIA Process	p. 186
5.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 198
5.7 Summing Up	p. 200
6 How to Make EIAs More Practical	p. 209
6.1 Highlights	p. 209
6.2 Insights from Practice	p. 210
6.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 215
6.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 219
6.5 Instituting a Practical EIA Process	p. 248
6.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 257
6.7 Summing Up	p. 259
7 How to Make EIAs More Democratic	p. 266
7.1 Highlights	p. 266
7.2 Insights from Practice	p. 267
7.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 272
7.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 277
7.5 Instituting a Democratic EIA Process	p. 293
7.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 306
7.7 Summing Up	p. 308
8 How to Make EIAs More Collaborative	p. 316
8.1 Highlights	p. 316
8.2 Insights from Practice	p. 317
8.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 321
8.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 326
8.5 Instituting a Collaborative EIA Process	p. 369
8.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 379
8.7 Summing Up	p. 381
9 How to Make EIAs More Ethical	p. 389
9.1 Highlights	p. 389
9.2 Insights from Practice	p. 390
9.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 393
9.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 395
9.5 Instituting an Ethical EIA Process	p. 406
9.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 412
9.7 Summing Up	p. 414
10 How to Make EIAs More Adaptive	p. 419
10.1 Highlights	p. 419
10.2 Insights from Practice	p. 420
10.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 423
10.4 Selecting the Most Appropriate Route	p. 427
10.5 Instituting an Adaptive EIA Process	p. 469
10.6 Assessing Process Effectiveness	p. 477
10.7 Summing Up	p. 480
11 How to Connect and Combine EIA Processes	p. 488
11.1 Highlights	p. 488
11.2 Insights from Practice	p. 489
11.3 Defining the Problem and Deciding on a Direction	p. 493
11.4 Composite Regulatory Frameworks	p. 493
11.5 Matching Process and Context	p. 495
11.6 Process Interconnections	p. 499
11.7 Composite EIA Processes	p. 504
11.8 Challenges and Priorities	p. 510
11.9 Scenario Postscript	p. 512
11.10 Summing Up	p. 512
References	p. 517
Index	p. 549

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