Environmental Protection Indicators for California (EPIC) April 2002
The 2002 EPIC report is available
for download as either a series of pdf files or as one large
file. You will need the free program Adobe
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This 300-page report describes the process for the identification and selection of environmental indicators that are adopted as part of the EPIC system, and presents the initial set of environmental indicators.
| Contents | |
| Cover Material | |
| Message from the Secretaries | |
| Front Matter (Inside cover, Acknowledgments and Table of Contents) | |
| Executive Summary | |
| Chapter 1 | Introduction |
| The Directive | |
| Overview of the Indicators | |
| Conceptual Model for Environmental Indicators | |
| Chapter 2 | The Environmental Indicators for California (EPIC) Process |
| Scope of the EPIC Project | |
| The Indicator Identification and Selection Process | |
| Chapter 3 | The Environmental Indicators |
| Introduction, Chapter Organization | |
| Background Indicators | |
| Air Quality | |
| Water | |
| Land, Waste and Materials Management | |
| Pesticides | |
| Transboundary Issues | |
| Environmental Exposure Impacts Upon Human Health | |
| Ecosystem Health | |
| Chapter 4 | Findings and the Future Directions |
| Introduction | |
| Issue Area-Specific Findings and Future Directions | |
| Future Directions for the EPIC Project | |
| Appendix A | EPIC Project Collaborators |
| Appendix B | Types of Indicators |
| Appendix C | Glossary |
| or if you prefer | Download the entire EPIC Report (3,212 kb) |
