[PDF] Ceqa Deskbook eBook

Author : Ronald E. Bass
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9780923956486

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This award-winning book is a veritable "soup to nuts" guide to CEQA and the environmental review process. It contains easy-to-understand explanations of the key policies, players, procedures, and practices related to CEQA compliance. It takes the reader through the process from the Initial Study and Notice of Preparation all the way to agency decision-making and litigation. The book also explains how to prepare useful and legally sufficient environmental documents, including Negative Declarations, Mitigated Negative Declarations, and Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs).This edition includes: ¿ All legislative amendments through 2012 ¿ The most recent version of the State CEQA Guidelines, including revisions related to greenhouse gas emissions ¿ Sidebar discussion of key court decisions ¿ Practice tips addressing commonly occurring issues ¿ New and revised flow charts and diagrams explaining important elements of CEQA ¿ Advice about integrating CEQA with NEPA and other environmental laws ¿ Hard-to-find studies of CEQA¿s effectiveness ¿ Pointers for successful compliance

Author : Ernest Perea
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781507670187

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The Guide to the Initial Study Checklist is the recepient of the State Merit Award from the California Association of Environmental Professionals. Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines covers 18 environmental topics and poses 89 questions. For each of the 89 questions, The Guide to the CEQA Initial Study Checklist will: HELP DETERMINE THE SCOPE OF THE QUESTION. PROVIDE SOURCES OF INFORMATION TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. PROVIDE EXAMPLE ANSWERS TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. DESCRIBE GENERAL FACTORS TO CONSIDER FOR DETERMINING SIGNIFICANCE. "This is a book many CEQA experts should or could have written...it has been sorely needed for years!" Kent Norton, former state president, Association of Environmental Professionals

Author : Judith Petts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1444311492

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development as well as demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This handbook hopes to improve practices by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate. Volume I addresses EIA principles, process and methods. Part 1 maps the EIA process and its impact on decision. It positions EIA in the context of sustainable development and relative to other decision tools, including economic valuation. It also positions strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in a similar way. Part 2 addresses the elements of the EIA process and significant impact assessment topics (air, water, ecological, social, risk, landscape and visual) not only in terms of good practice but also methodological evolution. This volume concludes by addressing cumulative impact assessment and SEA methods. Volume II provides a unique consideration for EIA implementation and practice in Europe, Africa, the Far East, South America and North America. It uses a number of project types to provide 'how to do' guidance and addresses practice in policy and plan assessment. This book should be read by legislators, decision-makers, economists, developers, industrial managers and consultants involved in this significant field.

Author : Michael Short
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1849772649

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'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy evolving field'Riki Therivel, author of Strategic Environmental Assessment in ActionStrategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning provides an authoritative, international evaluation of the SEA of land use plans. The editors place the SEA of land use plans in context, and uniquely qualified contributors then evaluate systems in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and the World Bank. These chapters provide a description of the context in each country, a case study of the use of SEA in land use planning and an evaluation of each SEA system against a set of generic criteria specially designed to anlayse different aspects of SEA. The contributors critically review each SEA system, SEA process and SEA outcome, and conclude by summarizing their findings. The editors draw the various national perspectives together in a final chapter and derive widely applicable conclusions about SEA and land use planning.This book is a core text for all students in environmental assessment, land use planning, environmental science, environmental management, development studies, geography, landscape design and law and engineering. It is also essential reading for all governments and environmental regulators, academics, researchers and environmental and planning consultants worldwide who are involvedin SEA research, practice and training.