Texas Coastal Management Program ecological systems component: users' manual

Date

1978

Authors

Research and Planning Consultants

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Publisher

Texas General Land Office

Abstract

This manual was written to assist professional biologists in the use of the Ecological Systems Component (ESC) of the Activity Assessment Routine. The ESC is a documentation and bookkeeping system for assessment of ecological impacts of proposed projects. The manual is organized on the basis of the major parts of the assessment process: analysis of the activity, identification of primary ecological changes, tracing of indirect ecological changes, summary, and interface with policy.

Description

140 pgs.

Keywords

environmental impact, air quality, water quality, sociological aspects, ecological systems, environmental aspects, seashore ecology

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