Publications
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Peer-reviewed journals
Published/accepted
Callahan, CT, C Winnebald, B Smith, BM Mason, L López-Hoffman. In press. Citizen science as a valuable tool for environmental review. In press at Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Preprint: https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/6009
Laparra, E, A Binford-Walsh, K Emerson, M Miller, L López-Hoffman, F Currim, & S Bethard. 2023. Addressing structural hurdles for metadata extraction from environmental impact statements. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Manuscript accepted for publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24809
Emerson, K, E Baldwin, TA Scott, JR Pidot, AM Lien, F Currim, S Bethard, S Ram, ML Miller & L López-Hoffman. Toward NEPA performance: A framework for assessing EIAs. 2022. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 97:106879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106879
Bethard, S, E Laparra, S Wang, Y Zhao, R Al-Ghezi, A Lien, L López-Hoffman. 2019. Inferring missing metadata from environmental policy texts. In Proceedings of the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 46–51, Minneapolis, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/W19-2506/
Under review
Winnebald, C., L. López-Hoffman, et al. Are Agencies Getting Environmental Justice Right Within NEPA?
In preparation
Kim, B., B. Smith, et al. 2023. Explaining and Predicting the Efficiency of the NEPA Review Process.
Smith B., & L. López-Hoffman. 2023. Why NEPA Needs Cost Accounting: Cost-Benefit Analysis of the National Environmental Policy Act.
Stava, A., L. López-Hoffman, et al. 2023. Public Comments Matter: A Quantitative Study of Public Engagement in the NEPA Process.
Research briefs
Winnebald, C, A Binford-Walsh, et al. 2023. Environmental Justice within the Department of Transportation. NEPAccess Research Brief No. 1. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Open/download 4-pp PDF (618kb)
Laparra, E., A. Stava, K. Curry, S. Thompson, N. Williams, & C. Herr. 2023. Action Category and Decision Type Extraction from Environmental Impact Statements. NEPAccess Research Brief, no. 2. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S. [PDF to come]
News
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UArizona Environmental Policy and Data Science Team Invited to White House Tech Summit
The UArizona team developing NEPAccess participated in the first-ever White House Environmental Permitting Technology and Data Summit (Summit) on October 24, 2023.
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How the debt deal would modernize Nixon-era NEPA reviews
President Joe Biden signed the debt ceiling deal, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act, into law, and in the process approved $500,000 in funding for the White House Council on Environmental Quality to explore a unified online portal to track National Environmental Policy Act reviews.
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