Forecasts And Environmental Decision Making: The Content And Predictive Accuracy Of Environmental Impact Statements

✍ Scribed by Paul J. Culhane (Author)

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1987
Leaves: 317
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book evaluates the predictive accuracy of the forecasts in a sample of federal environmental impact statements. It examines a major federal attempt to impose rationalistic reforms on government decision makers and the first view of National Environmental Policy Act reforms.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface -- Environmental Impact Statements and Federal Decisionmaking -- The Evolution of the NEPA Process -- Project Implementation and Sample Selection -- Impact Forecasts: The Contents of EISs -- Project Record Keeping and Other Obstacles to Environmental Audits -- Project Impacts: The Accuracy of Individual Forecasts -- Forecast Accuracy: A Summary -- Systems Analysis or Simplicity? -- Appendix: Research Methods

✦ Subjects

Physical Sciences;Physics

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