Environmental impact assessment and monitoring in aquaculture
Subtitle: requirements, practices, effectiveness and improvements
Contributors: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Dept. Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service
Series: FAO fisheries and aquaculture technical paper -- 527.; FAO fisheries and aquaculture technical paper ; v 527
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9789251063347
Description: This report includes four regional reviews on environmental impact assessment (EIA) and monitoring in aquaculture in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America; a special study on EIA as applied to salmon aquaculture; and a global review and synthesis report which draw on the findings of the review papers, covering relevant information from more than 35 countries. In addition, this document provides the report of a workshop on the subject held at FAO headquarters in Rome in September 2008. The print document includes the contents, abstract, list of contributors, executive summary and the global review; in addition, the regional reviews, workshop report and appendices (over 600 pages in total) are provided in PDF in the accompanying CD-ROM.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Africa; Asia-Pacific; Europe; North America; Latin America

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Reviews and synthesis; title: Workshop report; title: Towards policy guidelines; title: Appendices.