Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment is a practicalup-to-date explanation and guide to how EIAs are, and should be,carried out for specific environmental components (e.g., air, water,ecological systems, socio-economic systems). For each component, itincludes a discussion of relevant standards, how baseline surveys areconducted, how impact predictions are made, what mitigation measurescan be used, how the effectiveness of such measures should bemonitored, and the limitations of the methods.