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  title info:
    title: Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
  name:
    name part: Shepard, Richard B.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 264 p. 42 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Environmental 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.
  table of contents: The 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.
  note: edited by Richard B. Shepard.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Applied ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental law
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Math. Appl. in Environmental Science
  subject:
    topic: Applied Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 333.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Series On Environmental Management
  identifier: 9780387280981
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28098-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204142431.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-28098-1