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Improving Impact Assessment

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About the Book and Editors

Improving Impact Assessment: Increasing the Relevance and Utilization of Scientific and Technical Information edited by Stuart L. Hart, Gordon A. Enk, and William F. Hornick

As Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) become increasingly important in the policymaking process, it is vital that they be as complete and accurate as possible. The authors of this volume consider ways in which the development and evaluation of scientific and technical information for EIS can be improved. Addressing key legal, social, political, and ecological issues, they explore ways to facilitate communication between researchers and policymakers, evaluate the need for an Environmental Impact Assessment Network, and review case-study applications of new approaches.

Stuart L. Hart is assistant research scientist and project director at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and consultant to the Research and Decision Center, Medusa, New York. Gordon A. Enk is president of the Research and Decision Center, where William F. Hornick is an associate.

Improving Impact Assessment

Increasing the Relevance and Utilization of Scientific and Technical Information

edited by Stuart L. Hart , Gordon A. Enk , and William F. Hornick with James J. Jordan and Paul Perreault

The grant award by the National Science Foundation for this project was made in 1979 to the Economic and Environmental Studies Center (EES) of The Institute on Man and Science (IMS), Rensselaerville, New York 12147; the staff of the EES Center initiated and conducted the project. In the course of the project, the staff of the EES Center left IMS and founded a new, independent organization, The Research and Decision Center. The project and this report were completed by the research staff at The Research and Decision Center, Medusa, New York 12120. The final copy of the book manuscript was prepared at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106.

First published 1984 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Improving impact assessment.
(A Westview replica edition)
1. Environmental impact analysis. I. Hart, Stuart L.
II. Enk, Gordon A. III. Hornick, William F.
TD194.6.I55 1984 333.7'1 84-19531

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01995-2 (hbk)

Contents

, Stephen Kaplan

, Rachel Kaplan

, Caal H. Petalch

, Elizabeth Peelle

, Maagaaet S. Haezo and William E. Haezo

, Diana Valiela

, Nellie M. Stalk

, James J. Jordan

, Ronald G. McLeod

, Etic L. Hyman, David H. Moteau, and Btuce Stiltel

, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Michael D. Rowe, Barbara L. Pierce, and Peter M. Meier

, Jamei R. Veaie and Richatd C. Smaidon

, Selina Bendix

, Ruth-Ellen Millet

, Robeit E. Hen&hau

, Shelby Smith-Sanclate

, Stuant L. HanJt

, Gnanvllle H. Seue.il and Stuan Kon.tu.ck

, Ltoyd C Inland

, Vennla Lundblad

, Samuel G Mugatt

, Shanon Vecken

, Nicholas C. Yost

1. ii

Guide

This book encapsulates the diligent efforts of many persons to improve the scientific soundness, utility, scope, and usability of environmental impact statements and the process that produces them. We are indebted to a host of contributors who made the project and the symposium upon which these pages are based possible, who produced the individual essays in this volume, and who worked tirelessly in the production of the manuscript. Our sincerest appreciation is extended to Sidney Draggan and Richard Morrison of the Division of Policy Research and Analysis of the National Science Foundation, the funder of this research, symposium, and documentation effort; to the symposium participants and authors of the essays presented here; to Gerard Finin for his research and logistical support for the field study of the Greene County nuclear power plant siting case; to Judith Bayer, who served as project secretary; and to Rose Frisbee and Jeanette Lendrum, who worked many long hours in the typing of the draft manuscript. Finally, thanks must be extended to Jane Stanton for her careful yet efficient preparation of this manuscript.

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