The US Environmental Protection Agency pioneered the use of pathway analysis to determine the likely human health impact of environmental ills. It and the Natural Step definitions later became the basis of the global ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards and the more recent ISO 19011 accounting standard.
Environmentalimpact statements (EIS's) are the result of this requirement.
One of the world's largest collections of environmentalimpact statements is available for your use in the Transportation Library (University Library, 5th Floor, North Tower).
A small collection of environmentalimpact statements issued by individual states and by foreign governments is also maintained.
Environmentalimpact analysis is conducted to determine the likely human environmental health impact, risk to ecological health, and changes to nature's services that a proposed or ongoing project may bring, or is bringing.
The US Environmental Protection Agency pioneered the use of pathway analysis to determine the likely human health impact of environmental ills.
Environmentalimpact analysis is often controversial and rarely uncontested.