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Methods of environmental impact assessmemnt is a comprehensive and panoramic view of how to evaluate the most fundamental variables of the envronment. This in turn is vey helpful for the practiotioner to get acquianted with the variables which a project could have impactas on as well as the different methods of assesing those impacts. In its two parts which total seventeeth chapters the editor lets the student and the practitioner drink form the knowledge and experience of over thrity authors who know well what they are saying. This book is a tool that is helping and will continue to help technicians and scientists of the environment worldwide. This book is really a good library which should be studied by those who are looking for academic rigor as well as practical insight.
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Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment Second Edition The Natural and Built Environment Series Editors: Professor John Glasson and Professor Mick Bruton Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: 2nd Edition John Glasson, Riki Therivel and Andrew Chadwick Public Transport: 3rd Edition Peter White Urban Planning and Real Estate Development John Ratcliffe and Michael Stubbs Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design: 2nd Edition Tom Turner Controlling Development Philip Booth Partnership Agencies in British Urban Policy Nicholas Bailey, Alison Barker and Kelvin MacDonald Planning, the Market and Private House-Building Glen Bramley, Will Bartlett and Christine Lambert British Planning Policy in Transition Mark Tewdwr-Jones Development Control Keith Thomas Forthcoming: Urban Regeneration: A critical perspective Sue Brownill and Neil McInroy Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment Second Edition Edited by Peter Morris and Riki Therivel London and New York First published 1995 by UCL Press Reprinted 2000 Second edition published 2001 by Spon Press 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Spon Press 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Spon Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2001 Peter Morris and Riki Therivel The right of Peter Morris and Riki Therivel to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Methods of environmental impact assessment / edited by Peter Morris and Riki Therivel. – 2nd ed. p. cm. – (The natural and built environment series) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Environmental impact analysis – Great Britain. 2. Environmental impact analysis – European Union countries. I. Title: Environmental impact assessment. II. Morris, Peter, 1934– III. Therivel, Riki, 1960– IV. Series. TD194.68.G7 M48 333.7′14 – dc21 2001 ISBN 0-203-99570-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-23958-3 (hb) ISBN 0-415-23959-1 (pb) 00-068766 Contents List of contributors Preface and acknowledgements Notes on text format xi xiii xv PART I Methods for environmental components 1 Introduction 1 3 RIKI THERIVEL AND PETER MORRI