Environmental Management and Assessment

Recommendations on EIA and Eco-Audit

Dr. Inge Kronberg

2006

1. Sustainable development 1

1.1. Concepts of sustainable development 3

2. Environmental programmes and policies 7

2.1. Organisational structure for environmental management 8

2.2. Overall concepts, quality objectives and standard values 11

2.3. Initation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) 14

2.4. Recommendations on the EIA process 21

2.5. Environmental management in developing countries 24

2.6. International comparison 27

2.7. Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) 41

3. Environmental plans and decisions 43

3.1. Screening 44

3.2. Scoping 63

3.3. Public participation and consultation 74

3.4. EIA-document 78

3.5. Reviewing and decision-making 93

4. Environmental control and monitoring 105

4.1. Eco-audit 106

4.2. Monitoring 118

5. Environmental assessment 121

5.1. Assessment of the present state 124

5.2. Assessment of the predicted state 129

5.3. Environmental cost-benefit analysis 133

5.4. Assessment of environmental compatibility 136

6. Appendix 140

6.1. Adresses 140

6.2. Glossary 146

6.3. Literature 148

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