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Environmental Impact Analysis: Process and Methods by James T. Maughan
2013 | ISBN: 146656783X | English | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB

There are thousands of environmental analyses prepared each year to meet therequirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and similarprograms. Written by an expert with 35 years of experience in environmentalconsulting, research, and education, Environmental Impact Analysis: Process andMethods makes the preparation of EIAs not only easier but more thorough. Itprovides a guide to successfully preparing analyses that are legallydefensible; establish the base for environmental protection; and produce betterprojects, plans, and policies.

Following an informal description of the legal requirements, the book breaksdown the analysis process into a logical flow of steps and available methods toidentify impacts, compare alternatives, and develop impact mitigation measures.The author illustrates each step and analysis method with examples from casestudies he managed, providing insight not available from an independent reviewof the cases. He offers a comprehensive and consistent approach to analysiswith each chapter building on information presented in previous sections.

The book also describes methods from other programs such as hazardous wasteclean-up and Natural Resources Damage Assessment and explains how they can beadapted for use in environmental impact analysis. It compares a diverse arrayof multi-level environmental impact analysis approaches. Readers learn not onlyhow to produce an environmental document that meets regulations but alsoclearly maximizes the benefits of the analysis and results in a more usefulproduct with strong stakeholder support.