Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an environmental management tool, whose function is to predict and manage possible impacts arising from a given project. With the emergence of new European legislation, there is a need to implement new procedures that make environmental impact assessment...

1. Introduction -- 2. Ecological-economic concepts -- 3. A quantitative ecological-economic assessment approach. -- 4. Modelling the efficiency and sustainability of forest management -- 5. Case study : eutrophication control in the De Wieden wetland, The Netherlands -- 6. Case study : rangeland...