Environmental impact assessment: the state of the art
Forty years of health and climate-change impact assessmentThe environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been with us for the last 40 years. The term refers to the idea of assessing proposed actions – from policies to projects – for their likely implications for all aspects of the environment – from social to biophysical – before decisions are made to commit those actions, as well as developing appropriate responses to any issues raised. In a recent issue of Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (published by Taylor &