The people problems of NEPA: Social impact assessment and the role of public involvement
Abstract
This Chapter of the book `` The Scientific Challenges of NEPA`` discusses the people problems of NEPA and social impact assessment and the role of public involvement in NEPA. When Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1969, there was little guidance on the preparation of environmental impact statements (EIS) and the role of the public in the NEPA process. Excepting the statutory language of NEPA, which referred to impacts on the human environment, nowhere was this more evident than with respect to people. Questions such as what impacts on people should be assessed, how impacts on people should be assessed, and how people, including but not limited to those persons potentially impacted, should be involved in the assessment itself as well as NEPA`s associated administrative processes, were simply not addressed.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10168930
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-891098-12
ON: DE92019213
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: The scientific challenges of NEPA: future directions based on 20 years of experience,Knoxville, TN (United States),24-27 Oct 1989; Other Information: PBD: [1989]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; US NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL IMPACT; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS; INTERAGENCY COOPERATION; 290202; 290300; SOCIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND SAFETY
Citation Formats
Carnes, S A. The people problems of NEPA: Social impact assessment and the role of public involvement. United States: N. p., 1989.
Web.
Carnes, S A. The people problems of NEPA: Social impact assessment and the role of public involvement. United States.
Carnes, S A. 1989.
"The people problems of NEPA: Social impact assessment and the role of public involvement". United States.
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abstractNote = {This Chapter of the book `` The Scientific Challenges of NEPA`` discusses the people problems of NEPA and social impact assessment and the role of public involvement in NEPA. When Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1969, there was little guidance on the preparation of environmental impact statements (EIS) and the role of the public in the NEPA process. Excepting the statutory language of NEPA, which referred to impacts on the human environment, nowhere was this more evident than with respect to people. Questions such as what impacts on people should be assessed, how impacts on people should be assessed, and how people, including but not limited to those persons potentially impacted, should be involved in the assessment itself as well as NEPA`s associated administrative processes, were simply not addressed.},
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