Forecasts and Environmental Decision Making

The Content and Predictive Accuracy of Environmental Impact Statements
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-00597-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culhane, Paul J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Paul J. Culhane, H. Paul Friesema, and Janice A. Beecher.