The Integration Imperative
The Integration Imperative

Author: Michael P. Gillingham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 331922123X

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The purpose of this work is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and conservation and natural resource professionals. There has been technical and policy research exploring how cumulative environmental impacts can be assessed and managed. These studies, however, have failed to consider the necessary integration of community, environment and health. Informed by knowledge and experience in northern British Columbia, this book seeks to expand our understanding of the cumulative impacts of natural resource development through an integrated lens. The book offers a timely response to a growing imperative – proposing integrative response to multiple natural resource developments in a way that addresses converging environment, community and health issues. Informed by the editors’ experiences across several complementary areas of expertise, we envision this book as appealing to a wide range of researchers, educators and practitioners, with relevance to a growing audience with appetite for and interest in integrative approaches.

Cumulative Impacts of Natural Resource Development on Ecosystems and Wildlife
Cumulative Impacts of Natural Resource Development on Ecosystems and Wildlife

Author: Judi Krzyzanowski

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Natural resource activities at different spatial and temporal scales have cumulative effects on ecosystems and biodiversity that are not yet thoroughly understood. There is currently little information about the baseline conditions or ecological thresholds of ecosystems and how cumulative impacts affect ecosystem resilience. Nevertheless, projects regulated by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act have been required to "consider" cumulative environmental effects since 1992 even though established communities of practice to address these impacts are lacking within the realms of research, policy, and natural resource management. This bibliography constitutes an initial step within a longer-term Forrex planning process to properly address extension needs concerning the cumulative impacts of natural resource development on ecosystems and wildlife. It does not represent an exhaustive list of research related to cumulative impacts, but instead draws on selected work from multiple disciplines and sectors to provide a holistic and critical view of impacts relevant to British Columbia's ecosystems. The bibliography is organized by resource sector and includes forestry, rangeland and grazing, agriculture and wineries, mining, oil and gas, water development, fisheries, urban and rural development,transportation and utility corridors, and recreation. This is followed by a section that organizes sources by a wildlife, ecosystem, or general approach to cumulative effects and concludes with a discussion of identified knowledge and research gaps together with recommendations for developing assessment guidelines of cumulative impacts for the province's natural resource sector. This bibliography illustrates the diversity of cumulative effects approaches, the breath of potential impacts, and the complexity of interactions that occur within a shared land base.

Cumulative impacts of natural resource development and ecosystems and wildlife
Cumulative impacts of natural resource development and ecosystems and wildlife

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Natural resource activities at different spatial and temporal scales have cumulative effects on ecosystems and biodiversity that are not yet thoroughly understood. There is currently little information about the baseline conditions or ecological thresholds of ecosystems and how cumulative impacts affect ecosystem resilience. Nevertheless, projects regulated by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act have been required to "consider" cumulative environmental effects since 1992 even though established communities of practice to address these impacts are lacking within the realms of research, policy, and natural resource management. This bibliography constitutes an initial step within a longer-term Forrex planning process to properly address extension needs concerning the cumulative impacts of natural resource development on ecosystems and wildlife. It does not represent an exhaustive list of research related to cumulative impacts, but instead draws on selected work from multiple disciplines and sectors to provide a holistic and critical view of impacts relevant to British Columbia's ecosystems. The bibliography is organized by resource sector and includes forestry, rangeland and grazing, agriculture and wineries, mining, oil and gas, water development, fisheries, urban and rural development,transportation and utility corridors, and recreation. This is followed by a section that organizes sources by a wildlife, ecosystem, or general approach to cumulative effects and concludes with a discussion of identified knowledge and research gaps together with recommendations for developing assessment guidelines of cumulative impacts for the province's natural resource sector. This bibliography illustrates the diversity of cumulative effects approaches, the breath of potential impacts, and the complexity of interactions that occur within a shared land base.

Cumulative Impacts of Natural Resource Development and Ecosystems and Wildlife
Cumulative Impacts of Natural Resource Development and Ecosystems and Wildlife

Author: Judi Krzyzanowski

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13:

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Natural resource activities at different spatial and temporal scales have cumulative effects on ecosystems and biodiversity that are not yet thoroughly understood. There is currently little information about the baseline conditions or ecological thresholds of ecosystems and how cumulative impacts affect ecosystem resilience. Nevertheless, projects regulated by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act have been required to "consider" cumulative environmental effects since 1992 even though established communities of practice to address these impacts are lacking within the realms of research, policy, and natural resource management. This bibliography constitutes an initial step within a longer-term Forrex planning process to properly address extension needs concerning the cumulative impacts of natural resource development on ecosystems and wildlife. It does not represent an exhaustive list of research related to cumulative impacts, but instead draws on selected work from multiple disciplines and sectors to provide a holistic and critical view of impacts relevant to British Columbia's ecosystems. The bibliography is organized by resource sector and includes forestry, rangeland and grazing, agriculture and wineries, mining, oil and gas, water development, fisheries, urban and rural development, transportation and utility corridors, and recreation. This is followed by a section that organizes sources by a wildlife, ecosystem, or general approach to cumulative effects and concludes with a discussion of identified knowledge and research gaps together with recommendations for developing assessment guidelines of cumulative impacts for the province's natural resource sector. This bibliography illustrates the diversity of cumulative effects approaches, the breath of potential impacts, and the complexity of interactions that occur within a shared land base.

Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment
Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment

Author: Jill A.E. Blakley

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1783474025

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This important Handbook is an essential guide to the state-of-the-art concepts, debates and innovative practices in the field of cumulative impact assessment. It helps to strengthen the foundations of this challenging field, identify key issues demanding solutions and summarize recent trends in forward progress, particularly through the use of illustrative case examples.

Environmental AnalysisThe NEPA Experience
Environmental AnalysisThe NEPA Experience

Author: Stephen G. Hildebrand

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1993-06-09

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13: 9780873719087

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Environmental Analysis reviews information gathered during NEPA assessments, summarizes the state of the art in methods and approaches, and defines future opportunities and new approaches required to link high-quality science to the decision-making process. Individual chapters address the process itself, present examples of recent experience with ecological impact assessment, evaluate social impact assessment and the important role the public must play, discuss the difficult challenge of assessing cumulative effects of multiple impacts, consider the regional and global implications of NEPA, and examine the important role of follow-up studies in the process. The authors of the 59 individual papers comprising this book represent the major sectors that have been key participants in the decision-making process from the beginning. These sectors include academia, national laboratories, federal agencies, state agencies, private industry, and foreign nations. Environmental Analysis will be interesting reading for environmental scientists, engineers, policy makers, and lawyers in government and academia; private consultants; and non-government environmental organizations.

Environmental Policy and NEPA
Environmental Policy and NEPA

Author: E. Ray Clark

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-06-13

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781574440720

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Environmental Policy and NEPA is a concise study of environmental policy-where we have come from, what we are facing and where we can go in the future. An outgrowth of initiatives taken by the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), and edited by the current Associate Director, this publication studies the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Divided into three main sections, part one covers the historical background and trends of NEPA. Part two addresses current substantive and conceptual issues associated with the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process. Part three discusses future opportunities including impact on humans, effective public participation in the EIA process and the need for sustainability. This excellent reference brings together 28 contributing authors who combine their expertise to address a multitude of topics. Environmental Policy and NEPA is mandatory reading for the professional, researcher, government policymaker, activist, student or anyone looking for a complete presentation of the EIA process.

Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management
Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management

Author: Tony Prato

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1351876287

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Providing useful insights on the use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in natural resource management, this book examines a number of empirical applications for several countries and a variety of natural resources. It is shown that using MCDA in the management of water, forestry, wetland and other natural resources can substantially improve the design and implementation of natural resource and environmental policies. Stakeholder involvement is also an important determinant of successful resource management and MCDA provides a useful and effective framework for getting stakeholders involved in resource management decisions. Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management gives in-depth analysis of the potential problems in applying these techniques, including difficulties eliciting required information, lack of suitable measures for environmental variables and the need to develop innovative methods to simplify the use of MCDA.

Integrating Landscape Approaches and Multi-Resource Analysis into Natural Resource Management
Integrating Landscape Approaches and Multi-Resource Analysis into Natural Resource Management

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 0309392187

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The responsible management of natural resources for present-day needs and future generations requires integrated approaches that are place-based, embrace systems thinking, and incorporate the social, economic, and environmental considerations of sustainability. Landscape-scale analysis takes this holistic view by focusing on the spatial scales most appropriate for the resource types and values being managed. Landscape-scale analysis involves assessing landscape features in relation to a group of influencing factors such as land use change, hydrologic changes or other disturbances, topography, and historical vegetation conditions. As such, different types of data and multiple disciplines may be required for landscape analysis, depending on the question of interest and scale of analysis. Multi-resource analysis (MRA) is an approach to landscape-scale analysis that integrates information among multiple natural resources, including ecosystem services, and is designed to evaluate impacts and tradeoffs between development and conservation at landscape scales to inform public resource managers. This approach implicitly addresses social, economic, and ecological functional relationships; for example, actions to realize the benefits of one type of natural resource (e.g., minerals, oil, and gas) may influence behavior and potential benefits related to other types of natural resources (e.g., recreational opportunities). In June 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on using landscape-based approaches and MRA to better inform federal decision making for the sustainable management of natural resources. Participants discussed knowledge gaps and priority areas for research and presentations of case studies of approaches that have been used to effectively integrate landscape-based approaches and MRA into practice. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.