The Sourcebook is designed to assist all those involved in environmental assessment. They include the environmental assessors themselves, project designers and World Bank task managers. This focus supports an important premise of environmental assessment, that sustainable development is achieved...
The Sourcebook focuses on operations with more potential for negative environmental impacts, such as major new infrastructure, rather than on operations with less potential impact, such as rehabilitationand maintenance. Chapters 8-9
The Sourcebook is designed to facilitate the environmental assessment process. It is intended to be used by all involved in environmental assessment, primarily the environmental assessment practitioner, but also groups managing them, project designers, task managers, and environmentalists in...