| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color) |
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data file |
| Series |
The natural and built environment series |
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Natural and built environment series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-223) and index. |
| Contents |
A statement of values and forty years of field trials -- Metropolitan New Jersey : transportation, sprawl and urban revitalization -- Elis Island, New York Harbor : time closes in on a national cultural treasure -- Sparrows Point, Maryland : proposed liquefied natural gas facilities -- Johnston Island : destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile -- Savannah River Nuclear Weapons Facility : managing the legacy of the military's nuclear factory -- Animas-La Plata, Four Corners : water rights and the Ute legacy -- NEPA and the challenges of the early 21st century. |
| Summary |
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was a blessing. It included an ethical position about the environment, and the law required some level of accountability in the form of an environmental impact statement, or EIS. After forty years of thinking about and working with NEPA and th. |
| Language |
English. |
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Environmental impact statements -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Environmental impact statements -- United States -- Case studies.
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Environnement -- Études d'impact -- États-Unis -- Études de cas. |
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Environmental impact statements |
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Environmental impact statements -- Law and legislation |
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United States |
| Genre |
Case studies
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| Added Title |
Environmental impact statement after 2 generations |
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Managing environmental power |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Greenberg, Michael R. Environmental impact statement after two generations. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, ©2012 9780415601733 (DLC) 2011011108 (OCoLC)707887014 |
| ISBN |
9781136636271 (electronic bk.) |
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1136636277 (electronic bk.) |
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9781136636264 |
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1136636269 |
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1299693512 |
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9781299693517 |
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9781136636226 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1136636226 |
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