Environmental Management: Principles and practice

Journals which publish articles on environmental management and economics
Ecological Economics
Environmental Economics
Environmental & Resource Economics
Local Environment
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
New Economics

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C h a p t e r 6
Environmental risk
management, impact,
hazard and risk
assessment
♦ Environmental risk management
94
♦ Environmental impact assessment
95
♦ Social impact assessment
104
♦ Strategic environmental assessment
107
♦ Assessing the potential for development and
impacts of development: approaches other
than EIA and SIA
108
♦ Predicting future scenarios
112
♦ Hazard and risk assessment
113
♦ Technology assessment, hazard, risk and
impact assessment
116
♦ Computers and expert systems
117
♦ Adaptive environmental assessment
and adaptive environmental assessment and
management
118
♦ Integrated impact assessment, comprehensive
impact assessment, regional impact
assessment, integrated environmental
management, strategic environmental
assessment and related approaches
119
♦ Dealing with cumulative impacts
124
♦ Recommended reading
125

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‘Ecology is the science which warns people who won’t listen, about ways they won’t
follow, to save an environment they don’t appreciate’ (Anon).
This chapter examines approaches used to forecast future scenarios, assess the
impacts caused by development, and the risks and hazards posed by nature and human
activity. These approaches are often linked with the assessment of economic impacts,
notably by CBA (see chapter 5), and often feed into eco-auditing (see chapter 4). For
those seeking greater depth of coverage, the following books in the Routledge
Environmental Management Series are recommended:
A.Nixon and O.Harrop (1998) Environmental Impact Assessment
S.McGill (1999) Environmental Risk Management