Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment

by Schmidt, Michael; Glasson, John; Emmelin, Lars; Helbron, Hendrike

• ISBN13: 9783540311409
• ISBN10: 3540311408
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-05
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Standards and Thresholds play an important role in many stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. They can be legally-binding or guidance values and are linked to environmental data. This publication provides a comprehensive collection of standards and thresholds, their derivation and application in case studies of EIA projects. The first part introduces the nature of standards and thresholds and key drivers for their determination. The book then describes, in Part II, technical standards from the perspective of EIA projects. Part III addresses the issue from the other side, environment and human health, and discusses the assessment of impacts on the sensitivity or value of environmental and health components. Part IV sets out some emerging issues for standard and threshold with reference to new sectors and with recent instruments. The book concludes in Part V with the role of monitoring, and final implementation.

Table of Contents

Environmental Policies and Key Drivers for Setting Standards and Thresholds	p. 1
Principles and Purposes of Standards and Thresholds in the EIA Process	p. 3
Standards and Thresholds in German Environmental Law	p. 19
Standards and Thresholds for EA in Highly Polluted Areas - The Approach of Ukraine	p. 33
Poverty and Disease Remediation in the Millennium Development Goals: Time for Kenya to Set Standards and Thresholds?	p. 49
Widening the Scope - Sustainability Indicators, Legal Thresholds and Standards in Portugal	p. 63
Problems in Setting Thresholds	p. 75
Thresholds and Standards for Different Types of Projects	p. 87
Thresholds and Standards for Site-Specific Projects	p. 87
Requirements on EIA Quality Management	p. 89
Environmental Impact Assessment Standards and Thresholds for Sanitary Landfills	p. 103
Standards and Thresholds for Waste Water Discharges in Mexico	p. 113
Standards for Wastewater Treatment in Brazil	p. 125
Standards for and Evaluation of Small-Scale Dam Projects in Yemen	p. 133
The Need for Developing Thresholds for the Recycling Rate of Products in Thailand	p. 145
Guidelines for SEA in Marine Spatial Planning for the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) - with Special Consideration of Tiering Procedure for SEA and EIA	p. 157
Standards of lmplementing Renewable Energy Technologies in Cameroon	p. 171
Standards for Mining and Quarrying	p. 185
Thresholds and Standards for Spatially Dispersed Projects	p. 203
Thresholds and Standards for Tourism Environmental Impact Assessment	p. 205
Spatial Planning: Indicators to Assess the Efficiency of Land Consumption and Land-Use	p. 217
EIA Performance Standards and Thresholds for Sustainable Forest Management in Ghana	p. 229
Thresholds and Standards for Environmental Media	p. 241
Critical Loads and Levels Concept for Ecosystems	p. 243
Soil Standards and Thresholds	p. 253
Soil Background and Reference Values for PAH and PCB	p. 263
Standards and Indicators for Monitoring Impact of Disturbance on Biodiversity in a Post-Mining Area Using GIS	p. 277
Air Pollution and Climate: Standards for Particulate Matter	p. 291
Standards and Thresholds of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) - Phytoplankton and Lakes	p. 301
Landscape and Protected Areas - Polish Experiences	p. 315
The Use and Misuse of Noise Standards	p. 327
Assessing Environmental Impacts on Human Health - Drinking-Water as an Example	p. 341
Management of Dams in Trans-National River Basins - a Preliminary Sustainability Impact Assessment for the Upper Elbe River Basin	p. 355
Examples of Emerging Issues	p. 369
Environmental Impact of Nano Technology on Human Health	p. 371
Ecotoxicological Risk of Human Pharmaceuticals in Brandenburg Surface Waters?	p. 379
Environmental Oxygenology and Related Thresholds and Standards	p. 391
Quantitative Threshold Values for Strategic Environmental Assessment	p. 405
Implementation	p. 419
A Method to Monitor the Implementation of Mitigation Measures in Infrastructure Projects - Exemplified with a Project in the Republic of Yemen	p. 423
The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up	p. 433
Consequences of EIA Prediction Uncertainty on Mitigation, Follow-Up and Post-Auditing	p. 447
Environmental Quality Standards as a Tool in Environmental Governance - the Case of Sweden	p. 463
Subject Index	p. 487
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