Forecasts And Environmental Decision Making

Paul J. Culhane, H. Paul Friesema, and Janice A. Beecher.

• Preface -- Environmental Impact Statements and Federal Decisionmaking -- The Evolution of the NEPA Process -- Project Implementation and Sample Selection -- Impact Forecasts: The Contents of EISs -- Project Record Keeping and Other Obstacles to Environmental Audits -- Project Impacts: The Accuracy of Individual Forecasts -- Forecast Accuracy: A Summary -- Systems Analysis or Simplicity? -- Appendix: Research Methods