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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"National Environmental Policy Act"”.
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Incorporating alternative delivery methods into the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
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Risk Management in United States Forest Service: National Environmental Policy Act Planning Processes
… driven in large part by the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), are a part of all major (and some minor) land management decisions by the agency. The outcomes of these processes are the result of multiple factors, many related to the manifold smaller incremental …
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An Evaluation of Ecosystem Management and Its Application to the National Environmental Policy Act: The Case of the U.S. Forest Service
… case analyses are: 1) The 1986 George Washington National Forest Final EIS and Forest Plan (pre-ecosystem management) and the 1993 George Washington National Forest Final EIS and Revised Forest Plan (post-ecosystem management). 2) The 1985 Francis Marion National Forest Final EIS and Forest Plan …
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An Analysis on the Effectiveness of Sandy Island as Mitigation for the Carolina Bays Parkway
<p>The National Environmental Policy Act requires that potential significant environmental impacts are considered for every major federal action before the action commences. The Carolina Bays Parkway was expected to have significant environmental impacts; therefore, an Environmental Impact …
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Monitoring and Assessment of Military Installation Land Condition under Training Disturbance using Remote Sensing
<p>Various military training activities are conducted in more than 11.3 million hectares of land (> 5,500 training sites) in the United States (U.S.). These training activities directly and indirectly degrade the land. Land degradation can impede continuous military training. In order to sustain …
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Handling and Analysis of Public Comments in Natural Resource Planning
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1970 required public input in any federal planning process or action. Consequently, natural resource planning can be characterized as more of a complex situation in recent years due to the increasing involvement of the number of constituents who want …
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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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NEPA implementation and trust: linking stakeholder trust to substantive effectiveness in U.S. Forest Service fuels reduction projects
… of trust matter, and how those trust types interact within and on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) substantive effectiveness. I define substantive effectiveness as the degree to which the policy meets its established aims of considering environmental effects and including the public in …
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Predicting mining company-stakeholder conflict and incorporating social conditions into mining project valuation
… on mining, and institutional trust, and local environmental knowledge must be integrated into the decision-making systems in more comprehensive ways. This dissertation is a compilation of three research papers which seek to answer the following research questions: 1. How can governments better …
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How does participation in the framing, review, and incorporation of scientific information affect stakeholder perspectives on resource management decisions?
The conventional environmental impact statement (EIS) decision-making process, governed by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), represents the prevailing practice with regard to public involvement in science-intensive policy disputes. The efficacy of the current system, however, has been …
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Public participation and its relationship to conflict in national forest planning
Since the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act, the Forest Service has been required to give individuals and organizations access to the decision-making process. However, the Forest Service …
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Establishing Monetary Valuation Methods for Forested Riparian Wetlands in the Continental United States
… sociologists and economist have in fact successfully performed defensible appraisal analysis of large tracts of land, while acknowledging their methods to be quite meticulous and expensive. Due to this expense and complexity, such valuations have not been available for smaller tracts …
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Cumulative Effects Analysis in U.S. Forest Service Decision-Making
… effects analysis (CEA) requirement under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The CEA regulation requires federal agencies to provide an analysis of environmental effects, with consideration of past, present, and foreseeable future actions by both public and private parties, often on …
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Cumulative Effects Analysis in U.S. Forest Service Decision-Making
… effects analysis (CEA) requirement under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The CEA regulation requires federal agencies to provide an analysis of environmental effects, with consideration of past, present, and foreseeable future actions by both public and private parties, often on …
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Ecosystem Management in the USDA Forest Service: A Discourse Analysis
This dissertation examines the environmental discourse of the USDA Forest Service, focusing on the language of ecosystem management (EM). A two pronged approach was employed: eleven interviews were conducted with agency executives (chapter two); thirty-three interviews were conducted with agency …
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Public Involvement in the U.S. Forest Service
… agency's planning processes as mandated by the National Environmental Policy Act. Focused from the perspective of the agency personnel leading the process, this study is informed by both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Chapters two and three report the results of a web-based survey …
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Determinants of Success in Group Work Settings in Federal Natural Resource Recreation Management
… Service interdisciplinary teams implementing environmental analyses in support of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to comply with the 2005 Travel Management Rule and one focused on U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service management of partnerships to support recreational …
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Development Of A Graphical User Interface For Cal3qhc Called Calqcad
… by on road vehicles. It is well known fact that, carbon monoxide is one of the major mobile source pollutants and CO has detrimental effects on the human health. Carbon monoxide is the result of mainly incomplete combustion of gasoline in motor vehicles (FDOT 1996). The National …
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From Cadillac to Chevy: Environmental Concern, Compromise and the Central Utah Project Completion Act
… past century the federal government has been an active partner with state and local agencies to develop water supplies in the arid West. The last of the large-scale federal reclamation projects to be completed is the Central Utah Project or CUP. The CUP has generated considerable controversy …
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Small Mammal Survey of Wind Cave National Park
… for loss of biodiversity at the global scale. National and state parks have been established, in part, to preserve biodiversity of a region; however, a park cannot manage biota without first conducting a biological inventory. An inventory of species abundance, along with habitat preference, and …
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