Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment

Edited by Alberto Fonseca, Associate Professor of Environmental Impact Assessment, Department of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil

‘Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment provides the reader with an overview of EIA in many countries. The research is literature-based. As in many books which are multi-authored, the chapters vary in terms of the style of writing and readability. The various authors are non-lawyers. They provide a broad and non-legalistic approach to environmental assessment, over a wide range of areas. The book will prove a valuable research tool to those wishing to explore environmental assessment globally, beyond the confines of project regulation.’

• Contents:PART I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS AND EVOLVING ROLES1 Introduction to the Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment 2Alberto Fonseca2 NEPA in the United States: death by extremism or redesign of a moreuseful tool? 28Michael R. Greenberg and Stuart Shapiro3 Impact assessment in the post-COVID-19 world: the growing role ofhealth impact assessment 47Mirko S. Winkler, Adithya Pradyumna, Francesca Viliani and Astrid M. Knoblauch4 Integrated impact assessment: coming out of the shadows? 66Richard K. MorganPART II STAGES AND METHODS5 Influence of EIA on project planning and design: exploring the gapbetween best and actual practice 86Claire Gronow6 The theory and practice of scoping: delivering proportionate EIA reports 111Urmila Jha-Thakur, Fatemeh Khosravi and David Hoare7 The benefits and perils of digital and automated technologies: impactassessment methods in the fourth industrial revolution 126Alberto Fonseca8 A new agenda for significance determination in EIA: promotingcommunity-based determination processes to counterbalancetechnocratic approaches 146Sara Bjørn Aaen, Ivar Lyhne and Helle Nedergaard Nielsen9 Artificial intelligence solutions for environmental and social impactassessments 163Atiyah Curmally, Blaise W. Sandwidi and Aditi Jagtiani10 Mitigating climate change through impact assessments: criticalreflections from Canadian policy reform 178Karine Péloffy, Nicholas Zrinyi and Rosa Galvez11 Follow-up: post-decision learning in EIA 198John GlassonPART III IMPROVING GOVERNANCE AND DECISION-MAKING12 Uncertainty in EIA 220Sanne Vammen Larsen13 Trade-offs in impact assessment design and implementation 233Robert B. Gibson and Alberto Fonseca14 Heuristics and bias in assessing the social impacts of energy projects 258Douglas L. Bessette15 Rightful resistance and activism through EIAs in Chile 270Rajiv Maher and Diego Gálvez Pino16 Indigenous Peoples and impact assessment 285Philippe Hanna, Cássio Ingles de Sousa and Tumanako Fa’aui17 Trends in EIA effectiveness research 303John J. Loomis and Mauricio DziedzicPART IV GLOBAL PRACTICE18 EIA best practice in Africa 320Luke Sandham, Francois Retief and Reece Alberts19 EIA in Finland: the influence of international norms on the foundingand evolution of national impact assessment systems 337Timo Koivurova, Katri-Maaria Kyllönen and Krittika Singh20 EIA in Canada: strengthening follow-up, monitoring and evaluation 352Patricia Fitzpatrick and J. Byron Williams21 EIA in Japan: the benefits of early public participation 366Tetsuya Kamijo22 Environmental impact assessment in Brazil: a review of its rise (and fall?) 383Luis E. Sánchez and Carla Grigoletto Duarte23 EIA in China: evolution and challenges 404He Xu, Yiting Yang, Huanzhi Wang and Xueyan GuoPART V LOOKING FORWARD24 The importance of leadership in impact assessment 423Ross Marshall and Maria Partidário25 Epilogue (The future of impact prediction: what to expect from EIA inthe next 50 years?) 441Alberto FonsecaIndex