[CPEO-BIF] New EPA report on "the Interactions Between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Our Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of the  
Interactions Between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental  
Quality (2nd Edition)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA 231-K-13-001
148 pp, 4.3MB
June 17, 2013

Decisions about how and where we build our communities have  
significant impacts on the natural environment and on human health.  
Cities, regions, states, and the private sector need information  
about the environmental effects of their land use and transportation  
decisions to mitigate growth-related environmental impacts and to  
improve community quality of life and human health. In 2001, EPA  
published Our Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of  
the Interactions Between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental  
Quality to show how development patterns affect the environment and  
human health. Since then, research has continued to clarify and  
better explain these connections. To capture this research, EPA has  
revised and updated the report, incorporating key findings from  
hundreds of studies.

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For more information and to download the report, go to
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/built.htm


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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