Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Practice

Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Practice describes the various pieces of knowledge necessary to speak the language of EIA and carry out EIAs focusing on a variety of environmental issues, including impacts on environmental components, like air, water, soils, land, noise and biological environments. Organized into 15 chapters, the book provides engineers with the tools and methods to conduct an effective assessment, including report preparations, design measures and relevant mitigation steps that can be taken to reduce or avoid negative effects. Case Studies are presented, providing guidance professionals can use to better understand, plan and prepare environmental impact assessments.

Presents detailed methodologies for air pollution control, waste treatment schemes, phytoremediation, bioremediation, hazardous waste, green belt development and rainwater harvestingHighlights concepts and important definitions of EIA and the planning and management of EIA study Discusses the impacts on valued environmental components, like air, water, soils, land, noise, and biological and socioeconomic environments in a systematic manner

1. Environmental Policies
2. Conceptual Facets of EIA
3. EIA Study Planning and Management
4. Baseline Data and Environmental Setting
5. Impact Identification Methods
6. Impacts on Air Environment
7. Impacts on Water Environment
8. Impacts on Soils and Land Environment
9. Impacts on the Noise Environment
10. Impacts on the Biological Environment
11. Impacts on the Socioeconomic Environment
12. Mitigation and Impact Management
13. Technology in EIA
14. EIA Practice in India
15. Public Involvement in EIA