Improving Impact Assessment

Introduction: Problem Statement and Project Context Part 1: Redefining the Scope of Environmental Assessment 1. A Process-oriented Approach to Human Concerns in Environmental Decision Making 2. Assessing Human Concerns for Environmental Decision Making 3. EIA Scoping for Aesthetics: Hindsight from the Greene County Nuclear Power Plant EIS 4. Socioeconomic Impact Assessment and Nuclear Power Plant Licensing: Greene County, New York 5. The Role of Human Values, Attitudes, and Beliefs in Environmental Assessment Part 2: Applying Assessment Techniques 6. Improving Predictive Performance and Usefulness of Biological Environmental Impact Assessment: Experimental Impact Studies and Adaptive Impact Assessment 7. Preliminary Environmental Assessment Techniques for Soils 8. Land-capability Analysis As a Planning and Regulatory Tool 9. The Application of Image-Based Information Systems for Environmental Assessment 10. Toward a Participant Value Method for the Presentation of Environmental Impact Data 11. Comparisons of Methods for Evaluating Multi-attributed Alternatives in Environmental Assessments: Results of the BNL-NRC Siting Methods Project 12. The Scoping Concept and Citizen Involvement: An Opportunity for Rejuvenating NEPA Part 3: Keying Analysis to Decision Makers 13. How to Write a Socially Useful EIS 14. The EIS and the Decision Maker: Closing the Gap 15. The Impact Judgment: A Technical Impasse? 16. Organizational Environmental Management: The Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tennessee Valley Authority Experience Part 4: Analysis and Case Study 17. The Costs of Environmental Review: Assessment Methods and Trends 18. The Fate of EIS Projects: A Retrospective Study 19. Improving the EIS Process: A Case Study of Spruce Budworm Control 20. The Interface Between Federal and State EIS Requirements: An Overview 21. The Uses of Scoping: The Massachusetts Experience 22. Changing the Environmental Review Procedure in Minnesota Part 5: Recent Changes and Conclusions 23. The 1979 CEQ NEPA Regulations 24. Concluding Observations and Future Directions