NEPA, monitoring, and adaptive management
Abstract
Getting concerns about the environment on the decision making table before Federal actions are taken is the recognized business of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), but keeping them there is just as important. Human interventions into natural systems seldom proceed as originally planned. Scientific uncertainties prevent environmental impacts from being reliably or precisely predicted. Thus, the style of management must provide for monitoring to guide mid-course corrections adapting to inevitable surprises. the one time, pre-approval EA/EIS procedure remains essential but is not sufficient to assure the goal of NEPA {open_quotes}to...maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony...{close_quotes} (NEPA, 1969). This paper explores the extent to which NEPA encourages continuous assessment for timely feedback to managers, and the practical difficulties involved in doing so.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Association of Environmental Professionals, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 126002
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9506115-
TRN: 95:006735-0097
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 20. National Association of Environmental Professionals annual conference and exposition: environmental challenges - the next twenty years, Washington, DC (United States), 10-13 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Environmental challenges: The next 20 years. Proceedings; PB: 932 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; EVALUATION; US NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT; IMPLEMENTATION
Citation Formats
Carpenter, R A. NEPA, monitoring, and adaptive management. United States: N. p., 1995.
Web.
Carpenter, R A. NEPA, monitoring, and adaptive management. United States.
Carpenter, R A. 1995.
"NEPA, monitoring, and adaptive management". United States.
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