Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment in Practice

<p>Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a fast-growing field of land-use planning affecting many disciplines. At present UK Government legislation requires EIA for certain types of development. Subject to a further new European directive an EIA will be required for all policies plans and programmes. <br><br><i>Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment in Practice</i> provides a practical introduction to the subject and relates the theory to the practice through extensive use of case studies. Edited by Joe Weston the book draws on contributions from a number of practising experts in the field and covers topics such as: assessing the need for EIAs; the environmental team; scoping and public participation; internal and external consultation; local lobbying; local authority review and decision-making; public enquiries; monitoring the impacts; pollution control; and the lessons to be learned. <br><br><i>Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment in Practice</i> provides a practical introduction to EIA for final year undergraduate and postgraduate MSc courses in planning geography civil engineering building and estate management and development. </p>