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Environmental Impact Assessment: Incorporating Sustainability Principles

Environmental Impact Assessment: Incorporating Sustainability Principles

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Policy and Regulation

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceGeography

ISBN10: 3030809412
ISBN13: 9783030809416
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 2 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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