Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgments

List of contributors

Abbreviations and units used in the text

1. Introduction / Riki Therivel and Peter Morris

2. Socio-economic impacts 1: overview and economic impacts /
John Glasson

3. Socio-economic impacts 2: social impacts / Andrew
Chadwick

4. Noise / Riki Therivel

5. Traffic / Aidan Hughes

6. Landscape / i

7. Archaeological and other material and cultural assets /
Nicola Bourdillon, Rosemary Braithwaite and David Hopkins, Roger
France

8. Air and Climate / Derek Elsom

9. Soils and geology / Martin Hodson

10. Water / Peter Morris and Jeremy Biggs

11. Ecology -- overview / Peter Morris

12. Terrestrial ecology / Peter Morris, David Thurling, Tim
Shreeve

13. Freshwater ecology / Jeremy Biggs, Antony Corfield, David
Walker, Mericia Whitfield, Penny Williams

14. Coastal ecology / Stewart Thompson

15. Interactions between impacts / Riki Therivel and Peter
Morris

Appendices

A. EIA/EIS contents

B. Useful addresses

C. The rational method for runoff prediction

D. Geographical information systems

E. Outline of the NCC Habitat Classification

F. Sources of information on species and taxonomic groups

Glossary

References

Index

Description

Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment is a practical
up-to-date explanation and guide to how EIAs are, and should be,
carried out for specific environmental components (e.g., air, water,
ecological systems, socio-economic systems). For each component, it
includes a discussion of relevant standards, how baseline surveys are
conducted, how impact predictions are made, what mitigation measures
can be used, how the effectiveness of such measures should be
monitored, and the limitations of the methods.