The Canter text appeals mainly to Civil Engineering students taking course work in environmental assessment practice or impact assessment, usually taught at the junior/senior level as a popular elective. Some chemical and environmental engineers take the course as well. The author has specifically beefed up and improved the chapters on biological, cultural, and socioeconomic environmental factors. The book continues to emphasize both production and assessment aspects of environmental factors, i.e., air, water, and noise, together with some interesting case studies. The latest governmental methodologies and Environmental Impact Studies have been included in this timely revision.
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At over hundred bucks, this book is not for everybody. But it is the best all-in-one resource for conducting environmental impact assessments. The book is crammed full with tables and diagrams on everything from examples of project-effects interaction matrices to "A Comparison of Four Habitat Evaluation Methods." Besides introductory and general how-to-do-an-EIA material, chapters cover air, surface water, soil/groundwater, noise, biological envt., cultural envt., socioeconomic envt, visual impacts, and public participation. The writing has a no-nonsense engineering flavor. Not for casual reading, but as a resource/reference for students and professionals this is a high quality but overpriced book.
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I'm really disappointed by this text. It is exceedingly jargony and full of unnecessary acronyms. The publisher did not bother to include an acronym list, which seems like a big oversight in such a technical book.
The charts and tables included are useful, and I think it could continue to be a useful reference for someone new to Environmental Impact Assessment work who is doing it on a regular basis. But it is so technically-written and full of jargon that it will appeal only to a very narrow audience. It is very clear that the author is an engineer. It is not clear how he expects people to use this text -- it is certainly not very readable.
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The past two decades have been characterized by passage of major federal legislation dealing with the environment, including specific legislation on control of water and air pollution, solid- and hazardous-waste management, resource protection, and soil and groundwater remediation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pertinent institutional information, unique pollution problems, heat input derived, existing visual quality, habitat evaluation system, public involvement techniques, comprehensive environmental impact study, surface lignite mine, state water resources agencies, stepped matrix, uniqueness ratio, simple interaction matrix, pertinent environmental factors, six generic steps, public participation techniques, composite consideration, potential cultural resources, potential visual impacts, geographical study area, various project types, archaeological properties, leachate testing, evaluation species, proposing agency, descriptive checklists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, New York, National Environmental Policy Act, Native American, Federal Register, Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Department of the Interior, Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Department of Agriculture, Research Triangle Park, Ann Arbor, Department of the Army, Delli Priscoli, Forest Service, Secretary of the Interior, Endangered Species Act, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, General Accounting Office New!
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The past two decades have been characterized by passage of major federal legislation dealing with the environment, including specific legislation on control of water and air pollution, solid- and hazardous-waste management, resource protection, and soil and groundwater remediation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pertinent institutional information, unique pollution problems, heat input derived, existing visual quality, habitat evaluation system, public involvement techniques, comprehensive environmental impact study, surface lignite mine, state water resources agencies, stepped matrix, uniqueness ratio, simple interaction matrix, pertinent environmental factors, six generic steps, public participation techniques, composite consideration, potential cultural resources, potential visual impacts, geographical study area, various project types, archaeological properties, leachate testing, evaluation species, proposing agency, descriptive checklists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, New York, National Environmental Policy Act, Native American, Federal Register, Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Department of the Interior, Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Department of Agriculture, Research Triangle Park, Ann Arbor, Department of the Army, Delli Priscoli, Forest Service, Secretary of the Interior, Endangered Species Act, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, General Accounting Office New!
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