Socioeconomics and Environmental Justice
Socioeconomics and environmental justice studies address the economic and distributional effects of a proposed policy or action. These studies help answer questions like what populations are likely to be affected, where will impacts occur, what businesses will benefit or suffer, how might taxes and expenditures of municipalities be affected, or what populations will be disproportionately affected. The scope of these studies is very broad, encompassing analyses of many areas such as employment, household income, business output, property values, disadvantaged populations and other fiscal measures.
Many studies prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), such as Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and Environmental Assessments (EA), require socioeconomic impact analyses. Environmental justice studies are part of the larger socioeconomic analyses in the NEPA process. ENTRIX has conducted these studies for a range of projects, including wind farms, power lines, pipelines, dams, railroads, bridges, and developments on American Indian lands. Additionally, ENTRIX economists have the advantage of working directly with ENTRIX scientists, engineers, policy analysts, regulatory specialists, and our litigation support and GIS consultants, so our analyses fully examine all critical factors of a project. Our approach also employs a host of tools and methods from Input-Output modeling to spatial analysis using GIS maps, as solutions often become more apparent through visual mapping techniques.
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