The book discusses an approach to understand the roles of participants in the environmental impact assessment processes. The discussions in this book generally follow the EIA process in India, in Asia, and also of USA. This book also discusses the background of the EIA, sustainability and development, overseas and transboundary environmental concerns in brief. This book is process oriented and the topic of this book provides a various approaches to understand and work with the EIS or EIA effectively. It describes how to build an EIA team and an EIA frame work, how to manage EIA process and its preparation, how to involve the public in a greater way, and how to write and review the EIAs. Guidelines and regulations have also been provides—which is the basic requirements to prepare an EIA. This book will certainly be helpful to the project proponents, consultants, EIA team, ecologists, geomorphologists, geologists, hydrologists, lawyers, scientists, administrators and to all those who wants to play a significant role in the process of environment impact assessment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A.K. Shrivastava
Prof. A.K. Shrivastava is chairman of the Council for Training and Research in Ecology and Environment, New Delhi. The CTREE, founded by Prof. Shrivastava, Structured “Environment Auditing / Environment Impact Assessment in a course frame, for the first time in India. The course was inaugurated in the year ’98 by the then Minister of Environment & Forests, Government of India Sri Suresh Prabhu. Under the academic guidance of Prof. Shrivastava, more than one hundred and sixty participants were imparted short term training programme in the stream of Environment Auditing and Environment Impact Assessment, among those corporate executives, environmental Scientists and engineers, corporate bodies, senior forest officers and agriculturists can be underlined. Besides the training programme, he is currently providing expert consultancy to the government departments, corporate bodies and NGO’s in the matters of ecology and environment. As chief executive of the CTREE, Prof. Shrivastava has also worked as consultant / monitor / project evaluator with the Ministry of Environment and Forests / Ministry of Rural development, Govt. of India / Corporate bodies / and NGO’s as well. He has participated in various national and international seminars and conferences and addressed on the topic of management, eco-consumerism, environment and sustainability. He is author of several books on environment and management. He is found chief of National Council for Registration of Environmental Auditors (NCREA, India); Institute of Environmental Auditors & Impact Assessors, (IEAIA), India).
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