Environmental Impact Assessment Practice and Participation

by Hanna, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780195430226
• ISBN10: 0195430220
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Public concern over human impacts on the environment has grown significantly since the first edition of this book was published in 2005. Even so, the current economic crisis has put recent advances at serious risk of erosion.

Author Biography

Kevin Hanna is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research interests include integrated approaches to environment and natural resource management, environmental impact assessment, regional planning and community sustainability, and Nordic natural resource management approaches and policy innovation. He is the author of several journal articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Environmental Impact Assessment: Process, Practice, and Critique
Environmental Impact Assessment: Process, Setting, and Efficacy	p. 3
Progress and Uncertainty: The Evolution of Federal Environmental Assessment in Canada	p. 18
The Science of Assessment: Identifying and Predicting Environmental Impacts	p. 37
Public Participation in Canadian Environmental Assessment: Enduring Challenges and Future Directions	p. 58
The Hearing Process in Environmental Impact Assessment: As Concept and as Practised in Ontario	p. 83
Strategic Environmental Assessment	p. 103
Social Impact Assessment and High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: The Canadian Concept and Aboriginal Responses	p. 131
The Cheviot Mine Project: Cumulative Effects Assessment Lessons for Professional Practice	p. 158
Multi-jurisdictional Environmental Assessment	p. 173
Harmonization and Efficacy: What the 2010 Winter Olympics Tell Us about Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada	p. 193
Environmental Impact Assessment in Canadian Jurisdictions
Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada's Northwest Territories: Integration, Collaboration, and the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act	p. 211
Environmental Assessment and Land Claims, Devolution, and Co-management: Evolving Challenges and Opportunities in Yukon	p. 238
Impact Assessment in Nunavut	p. 257
The Canadian Federal EIA System	p. 281
Impact Assessment under British Columbia's Environmental Impact Assessment Act	p. 298
Alberta: Environmental Impact Assessment in a Rapid Growth Setting	p. 318
Environmental Impact Assessment in Saskatchewan	p. 333
Environmental Assessment: Manitoba Approaches	p. 346
The Ontario Environmental Assessment Act	p. 361
Environmental Assessment in Quebec	p. 380
Atlantic Canada: A Story of EIA Adaptation	p. 402
Contributors	p. 455
Index	p. 459
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