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Problems and Prospects in Local Environmental Assessment: Lessons from the United States

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  • Rolf Pendall

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Local environmental assessment (EA), mandated by five US states, has introduced complex management issues for practitioners and policy makers. Based on a review of statutes, case law, and prior EA evaluations,this paper outlines three key issue areas for local EA: linking comprehensive planning and EA; making the threshold determination process more certain; and balancing mitigation with public participation. The paper argues that all the issues reflect a central tension in environmentalassessment between procedural consistency and the need for contingent responses to conditions that differ among the projects to be reviewed.

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  • Rolf Pendall, 1998. "Problems and Prospects in Local Environmental Assessment: Lessons from the United States," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 5-24.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:41:y:1998:i:1:p:5-24
    DOI: 10.1080/09640569811777
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    1. Zhenghong Tang & Samuel D Brody, 2009. "Linking Planning Theories with Factors Influencing Local Environmental-Plan Quality," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 36(3), pages 522-537, June.

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