Perspectives on Strategic Environmental Assessment / Edition 1

by Maria Rosario Partidario

Overview

An environmental assessment must be performed whenever a property transaction takes place. Those who donít may find themselves responsible for the past misdeeds of others. This book contains contributions by professionals from various locations who use Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as a tool applied to water management issues.
SEA helps make decisions that increase sustainability. Because of its procedural nature, it necessarily becomes tailor-made to different applications. Easily understood and geographic in scope, this book presents leading edge thinking and first hand knowledge on the applications of SEA in water management.
Perspectives on Strategic Environmental Assessment is a comprehensive guidebook for performing environmental assessments all over the world. No other source provides you with as much information on the applications of SEA as a policy assessment and management tool. This book provides a blueprint for environmental assessments that safeguards you from the oversights of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566703604
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/22/1999
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Overview. SEA in a Sustainability Perspective. Procedural Approaches to SEA at a Policy Level. Procedural Approaches to SEA at a Plan and Program Level. Methods and Applications - Role of SEA in Decision-Making. Forum. Index.

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Editorial Reviews

"...Useful to most environmental chemists and engineers working on contaminated sites..."
- SETAC News

From the Publisher

Looks at important developments in the field of environmental assessment and provides current thought on the application and promise of strategic environmental assessment (SEA). Discusses new ways to approach environmental assessment that engage top-level decision- makers, provides a legal analysis of the integration of SEA into the existing EIA framework, and describes cases from around the world. Partid<'a>rio is an environmental engineer and professor at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Clark is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Army for Installations and Environment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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