EIS-ence: or suggestions to writers of environmental impact statements.

P. Cheney, D. Schleicher

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Abstract

Urges writers of EIS's to state the significance of the impacts they describe - that is, after describing an impact, to tell what it all means. This follows from the premise that the EIS is to be used as a basis for decisionmaking, and that the decisionmaker must know the significance of the aggregate impact of each alternative if the best of several alternatives is to be selected. Such value judgments must ultimately be made in decisionmaking; if such judgments are to be made, it is argued that they should be made early and explicitly, so they are subject to public review. Provides basic guideline's for making such judgements.-from Authors

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)163-176
Number of pages14
JournalEnvironmental Professional
Volume4
Issue number2
StatePublished - Jan 1 1982

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Environmental Science
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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