NEPA and Environmental Planning Tools, Techniques and Approaches for Practitioners

• Main Author: Eccleston, Charles H.
• Format: Book
• Published: Boca Raton CRC Press 2008
• Subjects: Environmental policy > Prevention > United States; Emergency management > United States; Terrorism > Prevention > United States
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• Physical Description: lvii, 390 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes index
• ISBN: 9780849375590; 0849375592

The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 established the world's first modern national environmental policy. All federal agencies must comply with NEPA's sweeping mandate to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) evaluating impacts and alternatives of significant federal actions. More than 100 countries have now enacted similar policies emulating NEPA. Written by a leading NEPA expert, this all-inclusive handbook: · Incorporates a step-by-by step approach, advancing the reader from NEPA's basic principles through advanced topics of interest to seasoned professionals · Describes environmental planning and EIA from both American and international perspectives · Integrates best professional practices from hundreds of sources, papers, and guidance directives · Demonstrates state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and approaches for solving problems that have hindered NEPA and environmental planning practices. NEPA and Environmental Planning: Tools, Techniques, and Approaches for Practitioners is an indispensable resource for professionals in government, consulting, planning, science and engineering, as well as students in undergraduate and graduate programs.