Routledge handbook of environmental impact assessment /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief introduction to environmental impact assessment / Kevin Hanna and Lauren Arnold -- Strategic environmental assessment : one name multiple concepts / Maria Partidario -- Cumulative effects assessment / Bram Noble -- Social impact assessment / Anne Merrild Hansen -- Risk assessment and risk management / Ayla De Grandpre and Karaline Reimer -- Sustainability assessment principles and practices / Angus Morrison Saunders, Jenny Pope, Alan Bond, and Francois Retief -- Climate change in environmental assessment / Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer and Thomas B Fischer -- Health impact assessment / Chris Buse -- Environmental impact assessment and disaster risk management / Troy McMillan -- Regional assessment / Lauren Arnold, Chris Buse, Rob Friberg, Bram Noble, and Kevin Hanna -- Gender-based analysis and environmental impact assessments : challenges and opportunities for transformative approaches / Priya Bala-Miller, Nicole Peletz, and Kevin Hanna -- Geographic information sciences in environmental impact assessment : applications and opportunities / Mathieu Bourbonnais -- Indigenous impact assessment / Alistair Macdonald and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh -- Innovative approaches to achieving meaningful public participation in next generation impact assessment / John Sinclair, Alan P. Diduck, and John R. Parkins -- EIA best practice for the developing world : what does it mean? / Francois Retief, Reece C Alberts, Claudine Roos, and Dirk P Cilliers -- The European Union Environmental Impact Assessment Directive : current practice and challenges for the future / Gesa Geissler, Johann Köppel, and Marie Grimm -- The US National Environmental Policy Act / Matt Lindstrom and Ben West -- Environmental assessment in England / Josh Fothergill and Thomas B Fischer -- Environmental assessment reform in Canada / Jeffrey Nishima-Miller.

"Globally, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most enduring and influential environmental management tools. This Handbook provides readers with a strong foundation for understanding the practice of EIA, by outlining the different types of assessment while also providing a guide to best practice. This collection deploys a research and practice-based approach to the subject, delivering an overview of EIA as an essential and practical tool of environmental protection, planning, and policy. To best understand the most pertinent issues and challenges surrounding EIA today, this volume draws together prominent researchers, practitioners, and young scholars who share their work and knowledge to cover two key parts. The first part introduces EIA processes and best practices through analytical and critical chapters on the stages/elements of the EIA process and different components and forms of assessment. These provide examples that cover a wide range of assessment methods and crosscutting issues; including cumulative effects assessment, social impact assessment, Indigenous led assessment, risk assessment, climate change, and gender-based assessment. The second part provides jurisdictional reviews of the European Union, the US National Environmental Policy Act, recent assessment reforms in Canada, EIA in developing economies, and the EIA context in England. By providing a succinct outline of process followed by in-depth illustrations of approaches, methods and tools, and case studies, this book will be essential for students, scholars, and practitioners of Environmental Impact Assessment"-- Provided by publisher.