Soils and EIA

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Martin Hodson</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Martin Hodson"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>SOILS AND EIA</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>The Third Edition of Methods of Environmental Impact Assess-ment is now out!</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Soils and EIA</I></div> <div> Until I arrived at Brookes, I had relatively little exposure to soil science. I did a little at Swansea as an undergraduate, and a small amount came into my Ph.D. work. In Oxford I found myself teaching on Environmental Impact Assessment and this teaching soon started to affect my research (yes, it does work that way around as well). Just a year after I arrived we started our <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/pgcourses/msc_pgdip_eam_bms.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/pgcours"><U>M.Sc. in Environmental Assessment and Management</U></A></FONT>, a joint venture with the School of Planning. In the first few years I taught on almost all of the units, and I developed the soil science area. What happens to soils when you carry out a development? How can you mitigate the impacts?</div> <div> The course was highly successful, and the course team were soon asked to write a book on the topic. I contributed the soils chapter:</div> <div> HODSON, M.J. (1995) Soils and Geology. In <I>Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment</I>. The Natural and Built Environment Series 2. eds. P.Morris & R.Therivel. UCL Press. 143-160.</div> <div> The book also turned out to be a great success, going into several reprints. In 2001 we completed the second edition. Chris Stapleton is an environmental planner specialising in soils with <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.bell-cornwell.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bell-cornwell.co.uk"><U>Bell Cornwell Partnership</U></A></FONT> (he can be contacted at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:cstapleton@bell-cornwell.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:cstapleton@bell-cornwell.co.uk"><U>Chris Stapleton</U></A></FONT>). Together with Roy Emberton we carried out a total revision of the original chapter:</div> <div> HODSON, M.J., STAPLETON, C. & EMBERTON, R. (2001) Soils, Geology and Geomorphology. In <I>Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment</I>. The Natural and Built Environment Series 2. (eds. P.Morris & R.Therivel). E&FN Spon. (2nd Edition) pp. 170-196.</div> <div> Again the book sold very well, and we were asked to revise our chapter. This time I worked with Chris Stapleton and Kevin Hawkins (Technical Director at WSP Environmental Ltd.), and in March 2009 the third edition appeared:</div> <div> STAPLETON, C., HAWKINS, K. & HODSON M. (2009) Soils, Geology and Geomorphology. In <I>Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment</I>. The Natural and Built Environment Series (eds. P. Morris & R. Therivel). Routledge, Abingdon, UK. (3rd Edition) pp. 201-234.</div> <bR> <div>  <script src="http://my.stats2.com/100523.js" type="text/javascript"></script>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>