Product Description: Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment provides students and practitioners with a clearly structured overview of the subject, as well as critical analysis and support for further studies. Written by three authors with extensive research, training and practical experience in EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment), the book covers the latest EIA legislation, guidance and good practice...read more

Product Description: Standards and Thresholds play an important role in many stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. They can be legally-binding or guidance values and are linked to environmental data. This publication provides a comprehensive collection of standards and thresholds, their derivation and application in case studies of EIA projects...read more

Product Description: This new edition (first edition titled The International Trust — ISBN 0 85308 598 6) includes chapters dealing with the international recognition of trusts and the future of the trust from a worldwide perspective. It has also been revised and updated to include recent developments affecting the development of international trusts including coverage of sham trusts, money laundering, and VISTA trusts...read more

Building on the reputation of the previous editions, this latest work adds recent work from experts in the field to a thorough grounding in fundamental and more advanced areas of the subject.

Product Description: Impact Assessment is becoming part and parcel of an increasing number of development proposals in the UK and Europe. As the practice of Impact Assessment develops it becomes more standardized and good practice starts to be defined...read more

Product Description: Regional planning and government in the UK is undergoing a period of tremendous activity, with a wide range of new policies, innovative techniques and experiments being tested. This volume provides an overview of developments, describing and analyzing the legislative, political and economic contexts within which changes are occurring, and assessing the continuing difficulties that face planners and others operating in the new arrangements for regional planning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Europe's heritage towns and cities are coming under increasing pressure from visitor numbers, and there is growing concern about the impacts of this weight of visitors on the areas visited. This is a study of how to address the "carrying" capacity of such numbers in historic towns and cities...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive, up-to-date material source offering comparison and analysis of trust laws concerned with major jurisdictions across the globe. Contains a digest of trust laws for each of the jurisdictions; considers special issues of related interest to the international trust practitioner and features the complete text of the trust statutes of jurisdictions...read more