Showing papers in "Environmental Impact Assessment Review in 1985"

TL;DR: In this article, a model land use planning system involving a time series approach was developed for Elkhorn Slough in California, which included four major components: evaluation of erosion susceptibility, measurement of land disturbance, establishment of a land disturbance target, and a comparison of existing and target land disturbance values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors modify the process used by decision makers to make decisions in order to deal with the conflicts that arise when assessing the potential impacts of a proposed action and trying to weigh and balance the many different interests at stake in reaching solutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a conceptual framework for analyzing institutional processes and performance outcome of EIA implementation for developing countries, including the Philippines, Korea, and Brazil, based on which they compared three aspects of the EIA system: national development planning and environmental goals; institutional structure; and performance evaluation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the siting of potentially hazardous but regionally necessary facilities is discussed and five factors that may solve the problem are identified and discussed. But these factors do not guarantee that a decision will not be disputed but may enhance the possibility of a wise and durable agreement.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the United Nations system and multilateral and bilateral development assistance agencies in promoting EIA in developing countries is reviewed, and three criteria are used to evaluate international EIA from the perspective of policy makers and administrators in the countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the purpose to be served, ease of use, validity, and results compared to other methods are proposed as four criteria for choosing among them: the purpose of the decision, the ease of the use, the validity and the results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an assessment of EIA status and trrnds in developing countries since the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 tried, among other things, to focus the attention of developing nations on the benefits of environmental policies.

TL;DR: A multinational collaborative study during the summer of 1983 addressed organizational alternatives in natural systems management as mentioned in this paper, and participants were particularly interested in ways different governments attempted to resolve the disparity between the interconnected quality of nature and the compartmentalized structure of bureaucracies.

TL;DR: Ortolano's Environmental Planning and Decision Making (EPDM) as discussed by the authors is a good textbook for introducing undergraduates to the field of environmental planning and decision-making.

TL;DR: In this article, the reorganization of environmental protection agencies in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is described, and two cases in which EIA was applied unsatisfactorily and comment on the political realites of implementing EIA at the subnational level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare written input and two surveys associated with a controversial plan and offer partial support of this position, and conclude that survey research is a technique that has potential in promoting consensus solutions.

TL;DR: In 1980, the World Health Organization (Regional Office for Europe) invited The Centre for Environmental Management and Planning (CEMP) to organize a two-week training course on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to provide a comprehensive introduction to EIA with emphasis on methods and techniques for impact identification, prediction and assessment as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The US Environmental Protection Agency recently completed two regulatory negotiation demonstrations as mentioned in this paper, which suggest that the current EPA rule-making process could be improved through the introduction of face-to-face negotiation at the earliest stages of rulemaking.

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management is proposed as a prototype for performing environmental impact assessment and management in Southeast Asian countries, and the authors advocate collaboration on an ASEAN model for performing EIA as a means of accelerating acceptance and implementation.

TL;DR: This article described the work of an international group that is supported in part by the Dutch Ministry for Environment and is chaired by Frans Evers, the Ministry's Deputy Director-General for Environmental Protection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the agency responsible for NEPA compliance should develop a system consisting of a core group of specialists working with an interdisciplinary team, using sophisticated techniques for modeling impacts and directing both their research and their writing according to the concept of significance.

TL;DR: In this article, a coherent microeconomic framework for defining and measuring the social costs of environmental regulations is provided, and a fundamental identity between two alternative means of measuring social costs is established and used to illustrate how erroneous methodologies have crept into the impact assessment literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the needs and provisions for training in environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the USA federal system and in the system created by the California Environmental Quality Act are examined.

TL;DR: Despite obstacles inherent in the structure of government and the lack of a strong national constituency, environmental impact assessment became a policy-making element in the government of Israel in 1982 as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This paper reported the results of a 1980 attitude survey of the perceptions of black and white men and women living within a two-block corridor along the MARTA east line in Atlanta, Georgia.