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Reverse Environmental Impact Analysis: Effect Of Climate Change On Projects, Michael B. Gerrard
Reverse Environmental Impact Analysis: Effect Of Climate Change On Projects, Michael B. Gerrard
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Environmental impact statements (EISs) examine the effect of the proposed action – typically a construction project, but sometimes a government policy or other activity – on the environment. However, increasing attention is now devoted to looking in the other direction – at how changes in the environment might affect a project.
Reverse environmental impact analysis, as I will call it, has been with us for some time. For example, if a building is planned downwind of a smokestack or downstream of a contaminated groundwater plume, this effect of the outside world has long been considered. However, the emergence of scientific …