The International Law of Environmental Impact Assessment: Process, Substance and Integration (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521879453)

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 international environmental law, is a sound policy strategy, and how international EIA commitments structure transnational interactions in order to influence decisions affecting the international environment. Through a comprehensive description of international EIA commitments and their implementation with domestic and transnational governance structures, and drawing on specific examples of transnational EIA processes, the author examines how international EIA commitments can facilitate interest coordination, and provide opportunities for persuasion and for the internalisation of international environmental norms.

Author: Neil Craik
ISBN-10: 0521879450
ISBN-13: 9780521879453
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2008
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.54w x 1.09d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/11/2008 pg. 17