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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Environmental decisions"”.
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Technology and public participation in environmental decisions
Since 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has served as the main instrument for analyzing the environmental impacts of federal agency decisions and providing the public with opportunities to participate in the decision making process. For over 35 years, NEPA has defined the process …
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Smart customization : making evidence-based environmental decisions
This thesis examines the environmental benefits created by the manufacture, distribution, and consumer use of products that are mass customized (MC) or produced "on-demand" and tailored to individual end-user preferences. Traditional mass production (MP) models take advantage of economies of scale …
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EMOTIONALITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS: THE INTERACTION OF PROBLEM AND DECIDER CHARACTERISTICS.
Emotionality in environmental decisions is a function of the characteristics of the environmental planning problem, the decider, and of the situation in which decisions occur. This research examined the effects of problem and decider characteristics upon the emotionality of the decision process and …
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Environmental impact assessments in South Africa : improving developmental and environmental decisions
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Combining tools and processes to facilitate coastal environmental decisions which reflect well-informed societal preferences
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1995.
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
… in perceptions of time looking at intertemporal decisions, social norms, policy preferences, and behaviors in the environmental domain. Looking closely at the environmental domain allows for a unique opportunity to examine whether or not cultural worldviews or social norms are motivating …
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Street science : the fusing of local and professional knowledge in environmental policy
… analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that …
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Three Papers on Environment-related Decision Making and Development in China
… the weak institution and high vulnerability to environmental risks and changes. However, empirical studies on these perspectives, especially quantitative analysis, are still quite limited due to data limitations. This dissertation empirically explore both governmental and households behaviors in …
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Evaluation of the performance, quality, and effectiveness of environmental impact assessment in Namibia
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has become an important environmental management tool used in planning and decision-making since the 1970s. However, its effectiveness has come under scrutiny in developing countries, where systems are often copied from developed countries with minimal …
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Environmental compliance in quarrying operations: a computer-based decision support system
… operators must continue to change and adapt environmental compliance methods to meet increasingly demanding regulations. To fulfill industry needs, a computer-based decision support system has been developed to facilitate legal and environmental decisions that mine operators are required to …
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Achieving Justice Through Public Participation: Measuring the Effectiveness of New York's Enhanced Public Participation Plan for Environmental Justice Communities
… is at the heart of democracy and of the environmental justice movement. Most state-level environmental justice policies and regulations focus on improving public participation within administrative processes to ensure that communities have a voice in the environmental decisions that …
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Environmental awareness in the workplace: a study of employees’ environmental knowledge, perception and behaviour from an individual and organisational perspective
The study attempts to assess employees’ environmental awareness at a personal and organisational level as well as their perception of their organisations’ environmental policies in order to propose a theoretical model on environmental awareness. The research focuses on employees’ knowledge, …
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Deliberation : integrating stakeholder values and risk assessments in environmental decision making
… a democratic society. This is particularly so in decisions regarding the management, disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes throughout the United States. The responsible agency must balance the multiple elements of risk, multiple and conflicting objectives, and stakeholder values and …
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Environmental impact assessment in South Africa - what difference can a sustainability assessment make?
… sustainability related aspects into the task of environmental assessment. A comprehensive study of the literature yielded a developing attitude of making use of the applied scientific principles in the assessment process. There is a notion that the assessment of the environment should form part …
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Probabilistic approach to modeling under changing scenarios
… result, converting model outputs into important environmental decisions become challenging. The main objective of this study was to define a framework that facilitates model development while evaluating uncertainty to assess the impacts of land management practices at watershed scale. A two-step …
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Citizen Access to Complex Environmental Decision Making: A Case Study of the Proposed LNG Pipeline in Oregon
… to the structure of democracy. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was passed in 1996 in attempt to preserve these values in agency environmental decision making process, in addition to mandating agency consideration of environmental impacts. However, decades of public participation …
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Life cycle inventory uncertainty in resource-based industries : a focus on coal-based power generation
… is to develop an approach to support prospective environmental decision-making in resource-based industries. The specific focus is on coal-based power generation. The objectives of the approach are that it be able to adequately reflect the environmental burdens arising from primary industries, and …
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Assessing the scope of effectiveness of stakeholder engagement in the development and implementation of the Environmental Management Plan for the Berg Water Project in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… in the development and implementation of an Environmental Management Plan at project level. The theoretical basis of this research is the methodological premise that stakeholder engagement encourages quality environmental decisions and further promotes acceptable interventions for …
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The role of mapping in enhancing collaboration and decision-making processes around urban natural assets: a case study of Lilongwe, Malawi
… Life (UNA Rivers) project, urban planners and environmental officers from Malawi's Lilongwe City Council identified the need to better incorporate urban natural assets in Lilongwe City's city planning processes. This thesis aimed to determine how the process of collaborative mapping of urban …