Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Work-flows in applied palaeontology
- 2 Biostratigraphy and allied disciplines, and stratigraphic time-scales
- 3 Palaeobiology
- 4 Sequence stratigraphy
- 5 Petroleum geology
- 6 Mineral exploration and exploitation
- 7 Coal geology and mining
- 8 Engineering geology
- 9 Environmental science
- 10 Other applications and case studies
- References
- Index
9 - Environmental science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Work-flows in applied palaeontology
- 2 Biostratigraphy and allied disciplines, and stratigraphic time-scales
- 3 Palaeobiology
- 4 Sequence stratigraphy
- 5 Petroleum geology
- 6 Mineral exploration and exploitation
- 7 Coal geology and mining
- 8 Engineering geology
- 9 Environmental science
- 10 Other applications and case studies
- References
- Index
Summary
The living biota has proved of use in environmental science, specifically in environmental impact assessment (EIA), in environmental monitoring, in bioremediation, and in recording anthropogenically mediated global change. Applications and case studies in EIA, environmental monitoring, bioremediation and anthropogenically mediated global change are discussed in Sections 9.1–9.4, respectively, below.
APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
According to the UK Department of the Environment's definition, EIA is ‘a process by which information about the environmental effects of a project is collected, both by the developer and other sources, and taken into account by the relevant decision making body before a decision is given on whether the development should go ahead’ (Clift, in Harrison, 2001; Morris & Therivel, 2001; Wood, 2003; Jones, 2006; Spitz & Trudinger, 2009).
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- Applications of PalaeontologyTechniques and Case Studies, pp. 312 - 315Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011