M-X Environmental Technical Report. Indirect Effects Index for Impact Analysis.

Abstract

Many impacts of development projects are caused not by the construction or operation or the project itself but by the long or short term population increases associated with the project. These indirect impacts would include increased pressure on hunting, fishing and other recreational resources, extension of urbanized areas, and pressure on school and municipal services and cannot be easily predicted. A model to estimate these indirect impacts has been developed to assess effects of population growth on recreation and use of natural landscape. The model developed and a preliminary validation of it are discussed. The model is applied to analysis of potential indirect impacts of Operating Base (OB) sites in the Nevada/Utah M-X project area. Five sites have been selected for possible OB sites in seven alternative combinations of two bases each. The model is used to evaluate the potential indirect effects of the base pairs in each alternative. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 22, 1980
Accession Number
ADA095803

Entities

Organizations

  • Henningson Durham Richardson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animals
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Birds
  • Classification
  • Construction
  • Environment
  • Habitats
  • Railroads
  • Recreation
  • Rodents
  • Surveys
  • Three Dimensional
  • Validation
  • Wilderness
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.