ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the planning implications of the Baseline Aggregate Environmental Loads (BAEL) study that adapted and applied the Integrated Environmental Zoning (IEZ) method, which the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and the Environment (VROM) developed in the early 1990s, to a community in New York City, Greenpoint-Williamsburg. The chapter provides a brief community profile of Greenpoint-Williamsburg, followed by an explanation of IEZ and how it was modified in the study. It then goes on to present some of the major applications of this approach, including in siting, zoning, land use, resource allocation, and environmental regulatory processes. It concludes with a comparison between IEZ and BAEL, and suggests their implications for planning.
