1st Edition
Forecasts And Environmental Decision Making The Content And Predictive Accuracy Of Environmental Impact Statements
By Paul J. Culhane
Copyright 1987
316 Pages
by
CRC Press
316 Pages
by
CRC Press
318 Pages
by
CRC Press
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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.
1. Environmental Impact Statements and Federal Decisionmaking 2. The Evolution of the NEPA Process 3. Project Implementation and Sample Selection 4. Impact Forecasts: The Contents of EISs 5. Project Record Keeping and Other Obstacles to Environmental Audits 6. Project Impacts: The Accuracy of Individual Forecasts 7. Forecast Accuracy: A Summary 8. Systems Analysis or Simplicity?