Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008.Description: lvii, 390 pages ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780367577520
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE 180 .E33 2008
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Item type: Books
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Environmental Planning GC GE 180 .E33 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000020556

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.