Effectiveness in NEPA decision making: in search of evidence and theory
Effectiveness in NEPA decision making: in search of evidence and theory
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DOI：
10.1080/1523908x.2019.1615421
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发表时间：
2019-07-04
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Baldwin, Elizabeth
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作者：
Emerson, Kirk;Baldwin, Elizabeth
1969年的《国家环境政策法》（NEPA）要求联邦机构分析可能影响人类环境的拟议行动的环境影响，并在决定是否继续进行之前咨询公众。尽管在50年的历史中进行了数千次环境审查，但对《国家环境政策法》取得的成就以及有助于有效环境审查的因素的了解仍然有限。虽然《国家环境政策法》已经成为许多实证研究的主题，但这一学术研究很少利用理论来帮助学者预测环境影响评估过程是否有效以及为什么有效。为了帮助学者们评估《国家环境政策法》的有效性，我们将环境影响评估的文献与社会科学的概念和理论联系起来，以提高学者们解释环境影响评估实践是否有效以及为什么有效的能力。
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 requires federal agencies to analyze the environmental impacts of proposed actions that could impact the human environment, as well as consult the public before determining whether to proceed. Despite many thousands of environmental reviews over a 50-year history, there remains limited understanding of what NEPA has achieved and the factors that contribute to effective environmental review. While NEPA has been the subject of many empirical studies, this scholarship only rarely makes use of theories that would help scholars predict whether and why environmental impact assessment processes are effective. To aid scholars in the ongoing effort to assess NEPA's effectiveness, we connect the literature on environmental impact assessment with social science concepts and theories that can improve scholars' ability to explain whether and why environmental impact assessment practices are effective.