NEPA and environmental planning : tools, techniques and approaches for practitioners / Charles H. Eccleston

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of the NEPA process and its basic requirements -- Tools, techniques, and approaches for improving and streamlining NEPA -- NEPA streamlining provisions -- Performing a systematic and integrated planning and analysis process -- Exemptions and categorical exclusions -- The threshold question : when is an EIS required? -- Preparing environmental assessments -- Preparing environmental impact statements -- The scope of analysis -- Planning and mitigating effects of natural disasters and terrorist attacks -- Emergency planning for continuity of business operations -- International environmental impact assessment -- Environmental policy, decision-making and economics.

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.