Environmental assessment of socioeconomic systems

Session I Methodology: Planning.- Systematic Distortion in Planning and Assessment.- Planning Sociotechnical Systems.- Demo-Economic Policy Simulations for Belgium.- Socio-Economic Systems, Urban Growth and Settlement Patterns (The Case of Turkey).- Session II Methodology: Prediction.- Some Future Uses of Analytic Forecasting.- The Development of Policy-Sensitive Models.- Intuitive Prediction of Growth.- Models for Prediction under Conditions of Interaction.- Session III Methodology: Assessment.- Universal Checklists in the Concept of "Impact Trees".- Problems with People, Decision, Conflict, Language and Measurement.- Long-Term Policy Assessment of Energy/Environment Systems: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework.- Economic and Environmental Assessment of a Water Quality Management System (River Neckar).- Behavior Settings: The Building Blocks of Social Systems.- Session IV Case Studies: Assessment of Technological Systems.- Government Regulation and Rail Safety.- Towards a Social Psychology of the Traffic Environment.- Control Methodology of the U.K. Road Traffic System.- Traffic Policing, Effectiveness Measurement and Resource Allocation.- A Suggested Framework for Evaluating the Assessment of a Technological System.- Assessment of Alternative Energy/Environment Futures: A Comparative Case Study of Wisconsin (USA), the German Democratic Republic, and Rhone-Alpes (France).- Session V Case Studies: Assessment of Social Systems.- The Distribution of Environmental Quality: Some Canadian Evidence.- Social Stability Analysis - Can Carrying Capacity Provide an Answer to Public Policy in Canada?.- Environmental Quality Change in Several Socio-Economic Contexts in France: 1970 - 1995.- Environmental Control: A Methodology for Planning Change in Public Housing.- Environment and Public Policy in the United States: A Diffusion Analysis.- Responses to Changing Urban Systems: An Analysis of Public Education.- Session VI Case Studies: Assessment of Social Impact.- Environment and Energy on the Texas Gulf Coast: An Economic Evaluation Model of Alternative Policies.- Environmental Pollution and Its Social Impact.- Social Perception of Industrial Odors.- Impact Assessment and Participation: Case Studies on Nuclear Power Siting in West Germany.- Environmental Planning and Social Response at the Strategy Level.- Register of Names.