Sustainability assessment principles and practices

Authors

Angus Morrison-Saunders, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Alan Bond
Jenny Pope
Francois Retief

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Routledge Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

School

School of Science / Centre for People, Place and Planet

RAS ID

44380

Comments

Morrison-Saunders, A., Bond, A., Pope, J., & Retief, F. (2022). Sustainability assessment principles and practices. In Routledge Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. (pp.98-113). Taylor & Francis https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Environmental-Impact-Assessment/Hanna/p/book/9780367244477?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh8bd5c_D_AIVAplmAh3xbAiuEAAYASAAEgLrEvD_BwE

Abstract

Environmental impact assessment (ElA), which is arguably the most widely used environmental protection and management instrument in use globally (e.g. Morgan 2012;Yang 2019), has long been framed as a 'tool for promoting suinstainable development' (Morrison-Saunders 2018,7). This objective of EIA is explicity identified in best practice principles and other guidance materials published by the International Association for Impact Assessment [...].

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