Environmental Assessment

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!