Environmental Assessment (EA) has become established worldwide as an environmental management tool used by government agencies, companies and other organisations to identify, predict and evaluate the potential biological, physical, social and health effects of projects and other development actions. Whilst improvements have been achieved, there remain many opportunities for strengthening the capacity for conducting EA studies and improving the design and implementation of EA systems.

Environmental Assessment in Practice introduces what constitutes good practice in EA and demonstrates the use of methods and techniques for impact identification, prediction and evaluation, environmental risk assessment, consultation and participation, project management, environmental statement review and post project analysis and strategic environmental assessment. A wide range of international case studies illustrate and explain how the different methods, techniques and disciplines of EA can be used in practice.