Nuovo libro su Impact Assessment

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Alessandro Gimona


Announcing the availability of "Environmental Methods Review: Retooling
  Impact Assessment for the New Century," Alan L. Porter and John J.
  Fittipaldi, Editors.
  Paperback, 300+ pages.

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  INTRODUCTION
  PERSPECTIVES ON THE FIELD
  1. Implementing Policy Through Procedure: Impact Assessment and the
  National Environmental Policy Act
  2. The Army's Interest in Impact Assessment Methods Review: Relevance
  and Efficiency
  OVERVIEWS
  3. Ex-Post Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment
  4. Improving the Quality of EISs
  5. Progress of Environmental Impact Assessment and Its Methods in 
China
  6. Methods for Effective EIA Practice
  7. The Concept of Environmental Sustainability
  STRATEGIC ASSESSMENTS
  8. Strategic Environmental Assessment
  9. Strategic Environmental Assessment
  10. Cumulative Environmental Impacts
  11. Cumulative Effects Assessment
  12. Environmental Assessment (EA) of Policies
  13. Technology Assessment: Wanted -- Dead or Alive!
  PROCESSES
  14. Methods for EIA: Selecting a Model and Approach
  15.The Environmental Overview as a Realistic Approach to Strategic
  Environmental Assessment in Developing Countries
  16. Decision-Scoping
  17. NEPA and Ecological Management: An Analysis with Reference to
  Military Base Lands
  18. Use of Geographic Information Systems in Impact Assessment
  19. Post-Project Impact Assessment and Monitoring
  20. Triggering and Technical Quality of EIA: The Tourism Testbed
  21. Improving Environmental Decision-Making into the 21st Century: The
  Army National Guard's Environmental Compliance Assessment System
  Marches Onward
  22. Training Approaches in Environmental Technology Assessment (EnTA)
  RISK ASSESSMENTS
  23. Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment: A Guideline
  Comparison and Review
  24. Risk Communication in Environmental Assessment
  DOMAIN-ORIENTED IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
  25. Social Assessment
  26. Economic and Fiscal Impact Assessment
  27. Valuation of Nonmarket Goods and Services for Environmental
  Assessment
  28. Climate Impacts and Adaptations Assessment
  29. Public Health in Environmental Assessments
  30. Health Care Technology Assessment
  31. Ecological Impact Assessment
  32. Environmental Justice Impact Assessment -- Key Components and
  Emerging Issues
  MODELS IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
  33. Selecting Computer Models and Input Parameters for Analysis of
  Environmental Impacts
  34. Source Term Estimation and Atmospheric Dispersion
  35. Framework for Assessing the Effects of Radioactive Materials
  Transportation

  This book is being made available through the International 
Association for
  Impact Assessment.  Thanks to sponsorship by the Army Environmental 
Policy
  Institute (AEPI),  the book is available for only US$15.  To order, 
contact
  the IAIA Executive Office at
  info@iaia.org or (701) 297-7908.  Orders can also be faxed to (701)
  297-7917.  Please mention Code EPL in your  correspondence.

  One of IAIA's South African members sent this review:

  Porter and Fittipaldi's "Environmental Methods Review: Retooling 
Impact
  Assessment for the New Century" is a treasure trove of useful 
information on
  the current state of play in environmental assessment. Studies and 
authors
  have been drawn from Australia to Zimbabwe and many countries in 
between. It
  is the best value for money I have encountered in recent years. The
  compendium has proved useful for graduate student teaching as well as 
for
  updating professional practice. Topics range from a perspective on 
NEPA to
  chapters on strategic impact assessment, cumulative effects 
assessment, GIS
  in impact assessment, social assessment, economic assessment, 
ecological
  assessment, health assessment, climate assessment and environmental 
justice
  assessment. Any environmental professionals passing up this offer need 
to
  subject themselves to mental assessment (one of the few forms of 
assessment
  not covered by this wide-ranging book).

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