Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: The concept of environment -- Environmental impact analysis -- Significant environmental impacts -- The Stages of environmental impact analysis -- Concluding remarks -- Measurement of environmental impacts: Measurement of physical environmental variables -- Measuring social variables -- Measurement of economic variables -- Other variables -- Environmental indices -- Impact assessment methods -- Concluding remarks -- Air quality impact assessment: Basic concepts and background of air pollution -- Sources of air pollutants -- The Role of atmosphere as a source of air pollution -- Ambient air quality standards -- Planning of air impact assessment exercise -- Assessment of impacts -- Concluding remarks -- Noise impact analysis: Basic concepts and definition of noise -- Environmental impacts of noise -- Noise impact assessment -- Concluding remarks -- Water quality impact analysis: Definitions and concepts -- Water quality indicators and standards -- Water impact factors -- Water quality impact analysis -- Concluding remarks -- Soil and geological impact assessment: Basic concepts and definitions -- Land-use classification of soils -- Causes of land degradation -- Impact assessment -- Mitigation measures -- Concluding remarks -- Biotic impact assessment: An overview of biosphere: Concepts and definitions -- Biotic impacts -- Methodology of biotic impact assessment -- Concluding remarks -- Assessment of socio- economic impacts: Definitions and concepts -- Scope of SIA: Identification of indicators -- Socio- economic impact assessment methodology -- Concluding remarks -- Assessment of aesthetic environmental impacts: Basic concepts and definitions -- The framework for visual impact assessment -- Concluding remarks -- Economic approaches to environmental impact assessment: What economists do? -- Economic activities and environment -- Social benefit cost approach -- The input-output approach -- Econometric approach -- Programming approaches -- Concluding remarks -- The human environment: Indoor climate of pollution: Introduction -- Indoor climate and environment -- Aspects of indoor housing environment -- The environment problems in houses -- Assessment of indoor environment -- Control of indoor environment -- Concluding remarks -- Sectoral analysis of environmental impacts: Introduction -- The rural sector -- The urban sector -- The energy sector -- The transportation sector -- The industrial sector.