Environmental impact assessments are an essential component of making decisions on transport infrastructure investments. Traditional procedures have proved ineffective for impacts that go beyond the scope of projects in isolation. Strategic environmental assessment has emerged in response, to...

"Linking environmental impacts from human activities, to the economy is generally advocated. But the non-availability of actual monetary values of impacts, hinders its use in practical terms. Another problem is the poor understanding of what is available, and the very different values it...

A buying firm might in future incur costs associated with a supplier’s CO2 emissions, safety violations or other social or environmental impacts. Learning about a supplier’s impacts requires costly effort, but is necessary (and sometimes sufficient) to reduce those impacts. The capital...

Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) is an insightful new approach to environmental evaluation, based on decision theory, policy analysis and environmental considerations. These concepts, though not new in their own fields of application, are combined and integrated in an...