Product Description

Do your own environmental impact assessments in-house This-up-to-the-minute reference hands you all the tools you need to make assessing environmental impact easy and efficient--as well as reliable and responsive to law. Veteran assessor R.K. Jain's ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT covers all possible impacts of an action or project, rates them, and describes a detailed methodology for assessing consequences. Featuring up-to-the-minute information on legal and regulatory requirements and tried-and-proven strategies, it also provides: 49 impact parameters rated in importance and relationship to the environment; help with simplifying the collection and evaluation of data; a choice and comparison of assessment approaches; case studies you can apply to your job right away; how-tos of conducting environmental audits; and much, much more! Currently, 1.4 million engineers in the United States are involved with some aspect of environmental assessment and that number is certain to increase in the next decade. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive and completely up-to-date reference to guide these engineers, as well as policy makers, and business administrators through the bewildering thicket of regulation, legislation, and environmental audits and impact statements. The authors offer proven techniques for analyzing the environmental impact of a proposed or ongoing project. They outline activities that affect the environment, showing how to measure the variables and to collect and evaluate the data. They also explain how to prepare, process, and review environmental assessment documents. Numerous case studies complete the coverage in this timely volume.