Multicriteria Environmental Assessment

I: General Background. 1: General Information. 1.1. The purpose of this book. 1.2. Structure. 1.3. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). 1.4. Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 1.5. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). 1.6. Environmental and Socioeconomic Impact Assessment (ESIA). 1.7. The necessity of developing an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for most projects. 1.8. What is economic development? 1.9. What is sustainability? 1.10. The link between economic development and sustainable environment. 1.11. The carrying capacity of the environment. 1.12. Social, economic and environmental interaction in sustainable development. 1.13. The EIA problem. 1.14. The decision-making process. 1.15. The EIA report. Internet references for Chapter 1. 2: Projects and Impacts. 2.1. defining the objectives of the study. 2.2. Impacts caused by projects. 2.3. Conclusion on impacts. Internet references for Chapter 2. 3: Criteria. 3.1. Criteria, attributes or components. 3.2. Factor Analysis (FA). 3.3. Steps for Environmental Impact Assessment. Internet references for Chapter 3. II: Elements of Environmental Appraisal. 4: Information for EIA. 4.1. Defining the problem. 4.2. Available tools for project appraisal. 4.3. Tools for impact identification. Internet references for Chapter 4. 5: Techniques for Environmental Appraisal. 5.1. Geographic Information System (GIS). 5.2. Contingency Valuation (CV). 5.3. Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). 5.4. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA). 5.5. Input-Output analysis (IO). 5.6. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). 5.7. Multicriteria Analysis (MCA). 5.8. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). 5.9. Mathematical Programming (MP). 5.10. Actual examples of multicriteria analysis. 5.11. Risk Analysis (RA). 5.12. Techniques comparison. 5.13. Strategic Environmental Assessment. Internet references for Chapter 5. III: EIA in the Urban Scenario. 6: EIA and Urbanization. 6.1. People's participation. 6.2. EIA and the city. 6.3. Urban and regional projects.