Environmental Impact Statements Database

This EIS database represents coded content of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) produced by the USDA Forest Service for the years 2007-2016. The data cover the USDA Forest Service lands in all US states and territories. Data are provided in .csv format with codebook. The dataset contains Environmental Impact Statement project details, geographic information, and content codes pertaining to variables associated with the definition and application of resilience, disturbance agents considered, policies and practices applied, and descriptive variables. EIS documents included in this dataset were obtained through documents available on the USDA Forest Service and Environmental Protection Agency websites. Automated content analysis was used to identify EIS documents from years 2007 to 2016 that included the terms \"resilience,\" \"resilient,\" or \"resiliency\" at least five times. The database represents a stratified random sample of those identified documents, which were later coded manually according to a coding guide. These data were collected and analyzed under the Joint Fire Science Program (grant #16-3-01-10) funded project entitled \"Integrating Social and Ecological Resilience into Forest Management Planning\". For more information please visit https://www.firescience.gov.