Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries

Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries, Second Edition outlines an evaluation framework that supports environmental professionals, researchers and academics in evaluating the effectiveness of impact assessment within limited budgets, promotes standardization across the field, and helps determine if Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is achieving its intended goal of sustainable development. Using Bangladesh as a case study, the book discusses key processes, highlights the need for an integrated, holistic approach, outlines the current institutional framework, and discusses environmental impact, social impact, community participation, and the implementation of mitigation measures.

This new edition provides a fully updated picture of both recent changes and ongoing development in process, such as the growth in social wellbeing, community participation and enhanced auditing. Finally, the challenges still facing EIA and SIA evaluation are addressed as robustly as possible.

Outlines the latest updates on how EIA and SIA outcome assessment systems are being incorporatedHighlights the surge in growth of community participation in EIA and gives valuable insights into the methods and techniques being used to successfully harness this phenomenonProvides updated case studies that demonstrate how the evaluation framework has been applied, revealing the challenges, changes, failures and successes that have taken place on these projects since the first edition

1. Introduction 2. Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment system in developing countries: the need for an integrated holistic approach 3. Institutional framework of the environmental impact assessment system 4. The quality of environmental impact statements 5. Evaluating social impact assessment 6. Evaluating community participation in environmental impact assessment 7. Implementation of Mitigation Measures: EIA Practice at Post-EIS Stage 8. Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: Framework for Effective EIA System