Resource Significance: A New Prospective for Environmental Project Planning,

Abstract

Resource significance is one of the metrics used in the decision making process of selecting environmental projects for implementation. The theory being that the more 'significant' resources, as defined in Institutional, Technical, and Public parameters, will be carried into the implementation phase of project planning. This report provides a brief discussion of the sources for determining resource significance. It also provides summary statistics of 95 programs developed for purposes of ranking projects based on certain levels of significance. Among these are Federal, Regional, State, Nonprofit and Historical programs. The report presents summaries of selected existing programs that can assist in the identification and description of the significance of environmental resources. Included are discussions of models for prioritizing National and Regional environmental resource priorities as well as models which use established sets of scientific or TECHNICAL criteria, INSTITUTIONAL criteria, PUBLIC support or opinion and models which promote interagency cooperation to establish environmental resource priorities. (MM)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA304362

Entities

People

  • Amy Doll
  • Kenneth I. Rubin

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Databases
  • Drainage Basins
  • Endangered Species
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Fish
  • Geographic Regions
  • Habitats
  • Identification
  • Law
  • Natural Resources
  • United States
  • Water Resources
  • Wildlife
  • Wildlife Management

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Proposed Air Force Base Actions.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.