Environmental Impact Assessment

Tor Hundloe is a pioneer of environmental impact assessment. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and an original staff member of the world’s first environmental school, at Griffith University. His research has taken him to environmental hot spots around the world. He has the prestigious Order of Australia.

• Part I The Background to Environmental Impact Assessment.- 1 Environmental Impact Assessment: The Awakening.- 2 Linking EIA to the Principles of Sustainable Development.- 3 Sustainability Perspectives: Ecological, Economic and Social.- 4 EIA Laws and Policies: From NEPA to the World.- Part II Tightening the Nuts and Bolts of EIA.- 5 If We Don’t Need The Project, Don’t Build It.- 6 The Special Case of Mining.- 7 Whose Need and at What Cost?.- 8 Maslow and the Need to Survive.- 9 Distorting Need.- 10 Project Alternatives and Other EIA Principles.- 11 Ethical Dilemmas in EIA.- 12 Public Involvement.- 13 The Baselines and Uncertainty.- Part III Offsetting Environmental Damage.- 14 The Principles of Offsetting.- 15 Can We Convert Biodiversity into Dollars?.- 16 Illustrating Offsets.- Part IV What Is to Be Done?.- 17 Faults to Fix in the EIA Game.- 18 Improving the Quality of EIAs: Professionalism.- 19 Specialist and Generalist Earth Doctors.-20 The A to Z of Environmental Qualifications