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Lay James Gibson Professor Department of Geography and Regional Development University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 Presidential address delivered to the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, University of California, Davis, September 11, 1987. Introduction VXEOGRAPHERS HAVE studied regional growth and decline for decades. Investigation ofthe topic picked up considerable momentum both in the late 1960s because of the energy boom and in the 1970s as a result of heightened public awareness accompanying the environmental movement and a wave of governmental regulations requiring formal assessment ofenvironmental impacts ofdevelopmentprojects. The Federal Environmental Quality Act made the study of impacts on the natural and human environments an essential part of federal projects. States and other governmental entities have developed their own requirements. California's Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a prime example. Private developers sometimes will initiate impact studies that go beyond those required by law, on the assumption that the understandings produced will enhance the efficiency of their projects. Whereas some impact studies are dull, tedious and, at best, representative of the state of the boiler-plater's art, others are fairly good reading, and the best ones are very good, focused, regional geographies. Unfortunately, even the best impact studies are rarely validated
Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Oct 1, 1988
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