Improving Impact Assessment

Introduction: Problem Statement and Project Context -- Redefining the Scope of Environmental Assessment -- A Process-Oriented Approach to Human Concerns in Environmental Decision Making1 -- Assessing Human Concerns for Environmental Decision Making1 -- EIA Scoping for Aesthetics: Hindsight from the Greene County Nuclear Power Plant EIS1 -- Socioeconomic Impact Assessment and Nuclear Power Plant Licensing: Greene County, New York -- The Role of Human Values, Attitudes, and Beliefs in Environmental Assessment -- Applying Assessment Techniques -- Improving Predictive Performance and Usefulness of Biological Environmental Impact Assessment: Experimental Impact Studies and Adaptive Impact Assessment -- Preliminary Environmental Assessment Techniques for Soils1 -- Land-Capability Analysis As a Planning and Regulatory Tool -- The Application of Image-Based Information Systems for Environmental Assessment1 -- Toward a Participant Value Method for the Presentation of Environmental Impact Data1 -- Comparisons of Methods for Evaluating Multiattributed Alternatives in Environmental Assessments: Results of the BNL-NRC Siting Methods Project1 -- The Scoping Concept and Citizen Involvement: An Opportunity for Rejuvenating NEPA -- Keying Analysis to Decision Makers -- How to Write a Socially Useful EIS -- The EIS and the Decision Maker: Closing the Gap -- The Impact Judgment: A Technical Impasse? -- Organizational Environmental Management: The Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tennessee Valley Authority Experience -- Analysis and Case Study -- The Costs of Environmental Review: Assessment Methods and Trends -- The Fate of EIS Projects: A Retrospective Study -- Improving the EIS Process: A Case Study of Spruce Budworm Control -- The Interface Between Federal and State EIS Requirements: An Overview -- The Uses of Scoping: The Massachusetts Experience -- Changing the Environmental Review Procedure in Minnesota1 -- Recent Changes and Conclusions -- The 1979 CEQ NEPA Regulations -- Concluding Observations and Future Directions