Transboundary environmental impact assessment: an introduction / Kees Bastmeijer and Timo Koivurova -- The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a transboundary context / Wiecher Schrage -- Environmental impact assessment and the framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea / Rie Tsutsumi & Kristy Robinson -- Transboundary environmental impact assessment: the Nordic Environmental Protection Convention / Timo Koivurova -- Transboundary environmental impact assessment in North America: obstacles and opportunities / Neil Craik -- Assessment of transboundary environmental impacts in developing countries: the case of Central America / Marianela Cedeño -- Environmental impact assessment in the Bay of Bengal sub region in South Asia / Daud Hassan -- Implementing guidelines for environmental impact assessment in the Arctic / Timo Koivurova -- Environmental impact assessment in Antarctica / Kees Bastmeijer and Ricardo Roura -- Environmental impact assessment and the international seabed authority / Gwénaëlle Le Gurun -- Environmental impact assessment in the space sector / Lotta Viikari -- The World Bank and environmental impact assessment / Jean-Roger Mercier -- Implementing the ESPOO convention: an international financial institution perspective / Elizabeth Smith -- The equator principles: a voluntary approach / by Bankers Leonie Schreve -- Conclusions: globalisation of transboundary environmental impact assessment / Kees Bastmeijer and Timo Koivurova
Summary
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) aims to ensure that potential adverse environmental effects of human activities are assessed before decisions on such activities are made. This book assesses thirteen systems of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (TEIA) that exist or are in development in different parts of the world
