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Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries is a valuable reference book for practitioners and researchers conducting research in and developing studies on environmental science and management and environmental and social impact assessment. The book's authors have developed and tested a new framework to evaluate environmental impact assessment (EIA) systems that may be adopted by most developing countries with EIA experience. Application of this framework will help determine if the EIA is achieving its intended goal of sustainable development in these countries. It also explains the reasons behind the strengths and weaknesses from which the development practitioners and international development partners can take lessons. This book will help the reader answer such questions as "What are the best forms of public participation?" and "How do we measure contributions to EIA procedure?" since it is based on direct experiences from a developing country that is struggling with many of these issues. Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries provides further understanding of appropriate tools to evaluate environmental and social impacts of development initiatives especially in developing countries.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment system in developing countries: the need for an integrated holistic approach
• Chapter 3 Institutional framework of the environmental impact assessment system
• Chapter 4 The quality of environmental impact statements
• Chapter 5 Evaluating social impact assessment
• Chapter 6 Evaluating community participation in environmental impact assessment
• Chapter 7 Implementation of mitigation measures: EIA practice at post-EIS stage
• Chapter 8 Evaluating environmental and social impact assessment: framework for effective EIA system
• Glossary

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Dr Salim Momtaz is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He teaches in the area of Sustainable Resource Management. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Geography from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He did a PhD in Regional Planning and Development from the University of London under a Commonwealth Scholarship, working under the supervision of Professor Richard Munton. His academic career started at the University of Dhaka in 1986. Salim moved to Australia in 1994 as an independent migrant. From 1995 to 1998 Salim taught Geography and Environmental Studies at Central Queensland University. He joined the University of Newcastle in 1999 where he has been teaching since. He had a stint in the US teaching Environmental and Social Impact Assessment at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., as a Visiting Professor. He received Rotary International Ambassadorial Fellowship to teach and conduct research in Bangladesh. Salim's current research interests include development and environment, climate change adaptation, environmental governance, and social impact assessment. Salim led the team that conducted one of the first social impact assessment studies in Australia titled "Independent Social Impact Assessment: Proposed Castle Hope Dam and Awoonga Dam, Queensland". Salim published five books and many articles in international journals. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Netherlands Government Research Organization, between 2007 and 2010. Salim currently lives in a coastal outer suburb of Sydney, Australia with his wife and two daughters.

Dr. S.M. Zobaidul Kabir is currently working at the Centre for Environmental Management (CEM), CQUniversity, Australia, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of environmental and social impact assessment. In addition to research, he teaches social and economic impact assessment at CQUniversity under Environmental Management program. Recently, he has obtained Doctor of Philosophy on Sustainable Resource Management from the University of Newcastle, Australia, under the prestigious Endeavour Postgraduate Award. Earlier, he obtained Master of Environmental Management and Master of Diplomacy from the Australian National University under AusAID scholarship.

Dr. Kabir has more than 7 years of research experience in the area of ex-post evaluation of environmental performance of development projects, environmental policy analysis, environmental and social impact assessment of development projects, and social appraisal of mine closure plan. He worked for the Government of Bangladesh as a civil servant and held various positions. He also worked for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Bangladesh, as a National Project Professional Personnel (NPPP).

He has more than 12 publications as scholarly journal articles and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. His research interests include impact assessment, greening business, community engagement, liveability assessment, environmental governance and sustainability assessment. He is a member of International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA) and Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand.