Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?
- Title
- Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?
- Description
- The Urbanist article defining an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and how it is used as a decision-making tool. The article explains concepts like alternatives, elements, criteria, scoping, public outreach. It also provides advice on how to read an EIS for content and comment.
- Creator
- Ray Dubicki
- Abstract
- An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) sounds like a highly technical and complex mechanism of governance. They take years, spiral into hundreds of pages with massive appendices, and get fought over in court. The truth is that EIS are a simple concept with plenty of spots that you can influence the shape of the city in the future.
- Publisher
- The Urbanist
- Date
- January 21, 2022
- Language
- en-US
- Is Part Of
- State of the Salish Sea
- Item sets
- Salish Resources
Part of Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?