Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment (eBook)

Environmental Policies and Key Drivers for Setting Standards and Thresholds.- Principles and Purposes of Standards and Thresholds in the EIA Process.- Standards and Thresholds in German Environmental Law.- Standards and Thresholds for EA in Highly Polluted Areas — The Approach of Ukraine.- Poverty and Disease Remediation in the Millennium Development Goals: Time for Kenya to Set Standards and Thresholds?.- Widening the Scope — Sustainability Indicators, Legal Thresholds and Standards in Portugal.- Problems in Setting Thresholds.- Thresholds and Standards for Different Types of Projects.- Requirements on EIA Quality Management.- Environmental Impact Assessment Standards and Thresholds for Sanitary Landfills.- Standards and Thresholds for Waste Water Discharges in Mexico.- Standards for Wastewater Treatment in Brazil.- Standards for and Evaluation of Small-Scale Dam Projects in Yemen.- The Need for Developing Thresholds for the Recycling Rate of Products in Thailand.- Guidelines for SEA in Marine Spatial Planning for the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) — with Special Consideration of Tiering Procedure for SEA and EIA.- Standards of Implementing Renewable Energy Technologies in Cameroon.- Standards for Mining and Quarrying.- Thresholds and Standards for Different Types of Projects.- Thresholds and Standards for Tourism Environmental Impact Assessment.- Spatial Planning: Indicators to Assess the Efficiency of Land Consumption and Land-Use.- EIA Performance Standards and Thresholds for Sustainable Forest Management in Ghana.- Thresholds and Standards for Environmental Media.- Critical Loads and Levels Concept for Ecosystems.- Soil Standards and Thresholds.- Soil Background and Reference Values for PAH and PCB.- Standards and Indicators for Monitoring Impact of Disturbance on Biodiversity in a Post-Mining Area Using GIS.- Air Pollution and Climate: Standards for Particulate Matter.- Standards and Thresholds of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) — Phytoplankton and Lakes.- Landscape and Protected Areas — Polish Experiences.- The Use and Misuse of Noise Standards.- Assessing Environmental Impacts on Human Health — Drinking-Water as an Example.- Management of Dams in Trans-National River Basins — a Preliminary Sustainability Impact Assessment for the Upper Elbe River Basin.- Emerging Issues.- Environmental Impact of Nano Technology on Human Health.- Ecotoxicological Risk of Human Pharmaceuticals in Brandenburg Surface Waters?.- Environmental Oxygenology and Related Thresholds and Standards.- Quantitative Threshold Values for Strategic Environmental Assessment.- Implementation.- A Method to Monitor the Implementation of Mitigation Measures in Infrastructure Projects — Exemplified with a Project in the Republic of Yemen.- The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Enforcing Standards and Thresholds in the Context of EIA Follow-Up.- Consequences of EIA Prediction Uncertainty on Mitigation, Follow-Up and Post-Auditing.- Environmental Quality Standards as a Tool in Environmental Governance — the Case of Sweden.