Evaluation in Environmental Planning

This book is about a most important topic: the systematic evaluation of policies, plans, and programs before they are implemented.

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'This book is about a most important topic: the systematic evaluation of policies, plans, and programs before they are implemented. Termed 'ex-ante evaluation,' the process can do more than simply help choose the 'best' alternative; it also can change the designs of the alternatives themselves. And although McAllister focuses on environmental planning, there are implications for other substantive areas of planning, too.'

- Planning

'A critical review of evaluation methodologies used in urban/regional planning, this book's premise is that the technical rigor of planning methodologies has been achieved at the expense of broader considerations of human democratic and environmental values. McAllister's objective is to show academic and professional planners how the various planning methodologies have failed to integrate such values, and how modifications in the design of evaluation techniques and channels for input of interested parties might improve the planning process.'

- Natural Resources Journal

'This is an extraordinarily interesting volume which should prove of enormous interest to teachers and practitioners alike.'

-Environment and Planning