Abstract Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) systems are under pressure in many
countries, driven by a call for efficiency and streamlining. Such a phenomenon is particularly …

Abstract The Rio Earth Summit 1992 produced a monumental document, Agenda 21 and 27
PRINCIPLES, where PRINCIPLE 17 describes the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) …

Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment provides students and practitioners with a
clearly structured overview of the subject, as well as critical analysis and support for further …

We suggest that the impact assessment community has lost its way based on our
observation that impact assessment is under attack because of a perceived lack of …

Results from an international online survey on simplification efforts in environmental
assessment (EA) and other types of impact assessments (IAs) are presented. The survey …

This paper argues that Governments have sought to streamline impact assessment in recent
years (defined as the last five years) to counter concerns over the costs and potential for …

Cumulative effects assessment (CEA) is a sub-discipline of environmental impact
assessment that is concerned with appraising the collective effects of human activities and …

Policy‐makers are frequently required to consider and manage conflicting public values. An
example of this in the environmental domain is biodiversity offset policy, which governments …

This updated second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Environmental Impact
Assessment offers an up-to-date exploration of the current theory and practice of …

Pressures are mounting for the simplification of environmental impact assessment (EIA).
This phenomenon is drawing increasing scholarly attention, but studies have not gone far …