Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries
eBook - ePub

Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries

  1. 229 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries

About this book

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 incorporated - Highlights the surge in growth of community participation in EIA and gives valuable insights into the methods and techniques being used to successfully harness this phenomenon - Provides 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

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Maps
  7. List of Photos
  8. Preface to the Second Edition
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Chapter 1: Introduction
  11. Chapter 2: Effective Environmental Impact Assessment System: The Need for an Integrated Holistic Approach
  12. Chapter 3: Institutional Framework of the Environmental Impact Assessment System
  13. Chapter 4: The Quality of Environmental Impact Statements
  14. Chapter 5: Evaluating Social Impact Assessment
  15. Chapter 6: Evaluating Community Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment
  16. Chapter 7: Implementation of Mitigation Measures: EIA Practice at Post-EIS Stage
  17. Chapter 8: Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: Framework for Effective EIA System
  18. Glossary of Terms
  19. Index