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Environmental impact assessments (EIA) have the potential for improving public decisions affecting environmental quality. Such assessments facilitate rationality, comprehensiveness, accountability, and public participation in the decision-making process. However, many reviews of the environmental assessment process show that EIA are often carried out in an adhoc and methodologically unsound way (Rosenberg, et al., 1981; Nichols and Hyman, 1982; Whitney and Maclaren, 1985). Too often, this results in questionable documents that merely attempt to rationalize and justify decisions not made with due concern for the environment.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher from “Use of Knowledge-Based Systems for the Review of Environmental Impact Assessments”, by S. Schibuola and P.H. Byer, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 11(1):11–27, 1991, by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.
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Schibuola, S., Byer, P.H. (1993). Use of Knowledge-Based Systems for the Review of Environmental Impact Assessments. In: Wright, J.R., Wiggins, L.L., Jain, R.K., Kim, T.J. (eds) Expert Systems in Environmental Planning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77870-4_9
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