ABSTRACT

Mark Twain humorously expressed how scientific observations can be misused to produce bizarre conclusions:

It is for reasons such as this that this chapter has been written. Specifically, this section describes a systematic, general-purpose approach for analyzing environmental impacts. This Action-Impact Model is depicted in Figure 3.1. The reader is referred to Chapter 2 in the companion text,

Environmental Impact Statements,

for a more thorough discussion of environmental impact analysis.

Potential actions can be viewed as having several stages of development, one of which is a proposal: “