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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Policy Act"”.
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Incorporating alternative delivery methods into the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts 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
… 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 decisions made by agency …
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Risky business: Moral arguments againts the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987 Can consent be engineered?
… Moral Arguments Against the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987, Can Consent Be Engineered? asks the moral and ethical questions of assigning risk. In a democracy a fundamental principle for imposing risk is obtaining the consent of the governed. In the case of a proposed high-level …
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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
… and social considerations. There were several practices, however, in the post-ecosystem management cases that did not support ecosystem management principles: limited incorporation of different geologic or long-term time scales; continued delineation of boundaries along political lines; no …
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An assessment of the health implications of aviation emissions regulations
… United States air quality mandated by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The Energy Policy Act study results estimated that aviation is responsible for 160 yearly incidences (with a 90% confidence interval of 64 to 270 incidences) of premature mortality of adults age 30 and over ($882 million in year …
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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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An econometric study of public policy applied to renewable energy, economic growth and taxation
… dissertation consists of three essays on public policy related to renewable energy, economic growth and tax policy. Each chapter is implemented with a different econometric method to investigate the policy question of interest. The first chapter studies the effect of renewable energy utilization …
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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
… informs these questions with three research activities: A case study of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) at the Donlin Gold project in Western Alaska: The National Environmental Policy Act requires US regulators to consult local stakeholders and include their concerns in an …
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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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Attitudes of Zulu matriculants in the uMlazi township towards isiZulu as a school subject
… if they are being used. The language policy will be investigated from the colonial era up to post democratic South Africa to establish if it has changed or not. Then the new language policy is to be investigated if it is implemented or not, if not suggest how the languages could be …
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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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An investigation into the principal's role in facilitating the effective participation of the School Governing Body in promoting quality education in public schools
The South Africa Schools Act, (Act No. 84 of 1996) which came into effect on 1 January 1996 and the National Education Policy Act, (Act No. 21 of 1996) introduced a new approach to the South African Education system. These acts, and many policy documents produced by the National Department of …
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An Analysis of the Biosafety System in Zambia -Regulatory framework, policies and procedures
… 2003 and 2007, the country passed the Biosafety Policy and Biosafety Act respectively. In 2018, government stated that Zambia is a GM food free country. However, by July 2018, the National Biosafety Authority had authorised 24 applications regarding the placements of GM food products on the …
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An Analysis of the Biosafety System in Zambia -Regulatory framework, policies and procedures
… 2003 and 2007, the country passed the Biosafety Policy and Biosafety Act respectively. In 2018, government stated that Zambia is a GM food free country. However, by July 2018, the National Biosafety Authority had authorised 24 applications regarding the placements of GM food products on the …
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Cumulative Effects Analysis in U.S. Forest Service Decision-Making
… 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 broad geographic …
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