SIAs conducted by federal agencies (19931, and Gramling and Freudenburg (1992). The article concludes with three concrete recommendations for the practitioners and students of SIAs.
LITERATURE REVIEWIn 1978, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), providing the legal foundation for conducting SIAs and requiring that-. . . human environment should be interpreted comprehensively to include the natural and physical environment and the relationship of people with that environment. . . . When an environmental impact statement is prepared and economic or social and natural or physical environmental effects are interrelated, then the environmental impact statement will discuss all of these effects on the human environment (40 CFR 1508.14).