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Environmental Impact Assessment

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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.

Was advertised as new, it was not...there were stains in the book, and hand writing. Why the need to lie, I do not understand.

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.

This book is incredible, I only had to read a few chapters of it, and I have already finished the book. I have loved reading this book for one of my classes. This is the kind of information that I want to deal with when I am finally finished with school.

This item was delivered in good time and is in the condition advertised by the seller. A good service provided and much cheaper than buying a new copy.

At this moment, Environmental Impact Assessment process and approaches are in a constant change, requeriments are increased as well as needs for to get a good EIA. Many scientifics are trying to get a holistic vision of the world affected for any project in order to get the best and close approach for interprete it. This book shows a complete evolution of the EIA business as well as avoid new interpretations and applications following the needs and background of the professionals that want use it.