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024 7 _a10.1007/0-387-28098-7
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245 1 0 _aQuantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Richard B. Shepard.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York,
_c2005.
300 _aXXIV, 264 p. 42 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 1 _aSpringer Series On Environmental Management,
_x0172-6161
505 0 _aThe Traditional Approach -- General Principles -- Scoping -- Baseline Conditions -- Alternatives -- Impact Assessment -- Writing the Impact Statement -- The Modern Approach -- Moving to the New Paradigm -- to Fuzzy Sets and Logic -- Environmental Conditions -- Impact Inference and Assessment -- Multi-Objective, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making -- Application -- Scoping -- Baseline Environment -- Project Alternatives -- Results and Conclusions.
520 _aEnvironmental impact assessments are required for a wide range of projects throughout the world. These assessments have increasingly involved complex, political decision-making and incorporated values and beliefs of both stakeholders and interested parties. However, the results are often ineffective because values and beliefs are not easily quantifiable, and decisions are considered subjective. This analysis recognizes these problems and proposes practical methods based on fuzzy logic that will enable people preparing assessments to define terms and quantify opinions and input so that they are agreed upon by all involved parties. Fuzzy logic also quantifies the complex environmental, economic and social conditions that are present and are predicted by project alternatives. The author places special emphasis on the types of issues that frequently arise in NEPA environmental assessments and environmental impact statements and in similar regulations that are used in jurisdictions regionally and internationally. The new methods are intended to reduce the time and cost of assessments, while producing justifiable and legally defensible results. First, issues related to current environmental impact assessment methods are discussed. Then the book discusses how lessons learned from computational intelligence can address these problems. It describes how a systematic, logical approach to environmental assessment can be applied to a variety of complex situations. Finally, the design and implementation of a more objective and powerful assessment is demonstrated through a worked example. Explanations of computational intelligence techniques and discussions of helpful software are intended to benefit those people actually preparing and using environmental assessments--in language that makes the process transparent and transferable to all types of systems.
650 0 _aEnvironment.
650 0 _aRegional planning.
650 0 _aUrban planning.
650 0 _aApplied ecology.
650 0 _aEnvironmental law.
650 0 _aEnvironmental policy.
650 0 _aEnvironmental sciences.
650 1 4 _aEnvironment.
650 2 4 _aEnvironment, general.
650 2 4 _aMath. Appl. in Environmental Science.
650 2 4 _aApplied Ecology.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Monitoring/Analysis.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.
650 2 4 _aLandscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
700 1 _aShepard, Richard B.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9780387243986
830 0 _aSpringer Series On Environmental Management,
_x0172-6161
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28098-7
912 _aZDB-2-EES
950 _aEarth and Environmental Science (Springer-11646)
999 _c504206
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