Preface and acknowledgments

List of contributors

Abbreviations and units used in the text

1. Introduction / Riki Therivel and Peter Morris

2. Socio-economic impacts 1: overview and economic impacts / John Glasson

3. Socio-economic impacts 2: social impacts / Andrew Chadwick

4. Noise / Riki Therivel

5. Traffic / Aidan Hughes

6. Landscape / i

7. Archaeological and other material and cultural assets / Nicola Bourdillon, Rosemary Braithwaite and David Hopkins, Roger France

8. Air and Climate / Derek Elsom

9. Soils and geology / Martin Hodson

10. Water / Peter Morris and Jeremy Biggs

11. Ecology -- overview / Peter Morris

12. Terrestrial ecology / Peter Morris, David Thurling, Tim Shreeve

13. Freshwater ecology / Jeremy Biggs, Antony Corfield, David Walker, Mericia Whitfield, Penny Williams

14. Coastal ecology / Stewart Thompson

15. Interactions between impacts / Riki Therivel and Peter Morris

Appendices

A. EIA/EIS contents

B. Useful addresses

C. The rational method for runoff prediction

D. Geographical information systems

E. Outline of the NCC Habitat Classification

F. Sources of information on species and taxonomic groups

Glossary

References

Index