Environmental Impact Assessment : An Indo-Australian Perspective
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Contributors. Introduction. I. EIA - Concepts and approaches: 1. EIA in context: strategy and tactics/Peter Murphy. 2. Environmental Impact Assessment for urban development projects/A.K. Maitra. 3. Managing environmental through EIA/Behnam Ta\'i. 4. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): status in India/N.S. Raman. 5. Development potential and the Environmental Impact Assessment of urban projects: an Indian approach/Sunita V. Auluck. II. EIA - Institutional and legal framework: 6. Institutional framework for environmental management/Bala Krishnamoorthy. 7. Environmental protection and the EIA/M.K. Balachandran. 8. Environmental Impact Assessment in New South Wales, Australia : an overview/Peter Williams. III. Tools for EIA: 9. Participatory tools for assessment of micro-environmental impacts in slum development projects/B. Shankar and T.D. Abhaya Kumar. 10. GIS and Zoning Atlas -- the tools for environmental management/Dilip Biswas and N. Raghu Babu. 11. Building the foundation for an urban environmental project: the case of Mirzapur/Scott Gibbons. IV. EIA and land development: 12. Land reclamation and environmental impacts of urbanisation/K.R. Lekha and P. Basak. 13. Land Development Project and EIA in urban development/Pawan Kumar. V. Some case studies: 14. Application of EIA in Water Supply Project: case of Karnataka/B. Alam. 15. Environmental impacts of Thermal Power Plant case study -- Tamil Nadu/K. Narendran, S. Sreenath and David W. Martin.
From the Preface: "Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been hailed in many countries as an effective analytical tool that decision makers can utilize to assess the impact of development on environment. In view of the importance of the subject, a National Seminar on Environmental Impact Assessment of urban development, organized by the DTUDP (Decentralized Training for Urban Development Project, an Indo-Dutch Sponsored Project), was held in Mysore, India recently. Most of the papers compiled in this volume are updated versions of those presented at the seminar and to ensure that the subject of EIA was well covered.
The first section of the book discusses the concepts, theories and approaches pertaining to EIA. The second addresses the role of legal and statutory guidelines for environmental protection. The third reviews techniques and strategies for assessing the environmental impact of development projects, with specific reference to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The fourth section traces the link between EIA and land development. The last section demonstrates the practical aspects of EIA through case studies."
