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The Inteational Law of Environmental Impact Assessment:Process, Substance and Integration:58 (Cambridge Studies in Inteational and Comparative Law, Series Number 58)
by: Neil Craik (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (21 Feb. 2008)
Language: English
Print length: 358 pages
ISBN-10: 0521879450
ISBN-13: 9780521879453
Book Description
The central idea animating environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that decisions affecting the environment should be made through a comprehensive evaluation of predicted impacts. Notwithstanding their evaluative mandate, EIA processes do not impose specific environmental standards, but rely on the creation of open, participatory and information rich decision-making settings to bring about environmentally benign outcomes. In light of this tension between process and substance, Neil Craik assesses whether EIA, as a method of implementing inteational environmental law, is a sound policy strategy, and how inteational EIA commitments structure transnational interactions in order to influence decisions affecting the inteational environment. Through a comprehensive description of inteational EIA commitments and their implementation with domestic and transnational goveance structures, and drawing on specific examples of transnational EIA processes, the author examines how inteational EIA commitments can facilitate interest coordination, and provide opportunities for persuasion and for the intealisation of inteational environmental norms.
