Environmental Impact Assessment Practice and Participation

by Hanna, Kevin S.

• ISBN13: 9780195419283
• ISBN10: 0195419286
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Environmental impact assessment is among the most influential aspects of environmental regulation and policy today. Through nineteen chapters that examine current debates, recent cases, and ongoing developments in Canadian EIA, Environmental Impact Assessment: Practice and Participation reflects the diversity of issues EIA processes now address. Part I provides a comprehensive examination of environmental impact assessment in Canada through analyses of methods and approaches as well as fascinating case studies that illuminate the wide-ranging influence of EIA in federal and provincial policy, planning processes, and regulation. Part II offers detailed profiles of EIA laws and regulations as they are applied in each jurisdiction, from Atlantic Canada to BC and at the federal level.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Bruce Mitchell
PART I ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: PRACTICE AND PARTICIPATION
A Brief Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment	3	(13)
Kevin S. Hanna
Progress and Uncertainty: The Evolution of Federal Environmental Assessment in Canada	16	(17)
Robert B. Gibson
Kevin S. Hanna
The Science of Assessment: Identifying and Predicting Environmental Impacts	33	(20)
Douglas Baker
Eric Rapaport
Public Participation in Canadian Environmental Assessment: Enduring Challenges and Future Directions	53	(22)
A. John Sinclair
Alan Diduck
The Hearing Process in Environmental Impact Assessment: As Concept and as Practised in Ontario	75	(18)
Len Gertler
Strategic Environmental Assessment	93	(25)
Bram F. Noble
Social Impact Assessment and High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: The Canadian Concept and Aboriginal Responses	118	(27)
Ron Pushchak
Ann Marie Farrugia-Uhalde
The Cheviot Mine Project: Cumulative Effects Assessment Lessons for Professional Practice	145	(15)
Roger Creasey
William A. Ross
Multi-Jurisdictional Environmental Assessment	160	(25)
Patricia Fitzpatrick
A. John Sinclair
Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada's Northwest Territories: Integration, Collaboration, and the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act	185	(27)
Derek R. Armitage
Environmental Assessment and Land Claims, Devolution, and Co-Management: Examples of Evolving Challenges and Opportunities in Yukon	212	(19)
D. Scott Slocombe
Lyn Hartley
Meagan Noonan
PART II ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN CANADIAN JURISDICTIONS
The Canadian Federal EIA System	231	(17)
R. Jamie Herring
British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Act	248	(20)
Sonya Graci
Joanne McKenna
Alberta's Impact Assessment System	268	(13)
Roger Creasey
Kevin Hanna
Environmental Impact Assessment in Saskatchewan	281	(12)
Marie Ann Bowden
Bert Weichel
Environmental Assessment: Manitoba Approaches	293	(15)
Kenton Lobe
The Ontario Environmental Assessment Act	308	(19)
Sonya Graci
Environmental Assessment in Quebec	327	(21)
Darren R. Bardati
Atlantic Canada: A Story of EIA Adaptation	348	(49)
Hendricus Van Wilgenburg
Contributors	397	(4)
Index	401