Sustainability Assessment
Sustainability Assessment

Author: Robert Gibson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1317622936

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Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability. While there is no single, simple means of reversing the invidious biophysical trends and redirecting the distribution of benefits, one necessary step is to approach every new and renewed undertaking as an opportunity to deliver maximum multiple, mutually reinforcing, fairly distributed and lasting gains. Finding the best options for enhancing such gains by comparing alternatives, addressing all the key requirements for progress towards sustainability and avoiding significant adverse effects, is the essential purpose of sustainability assessment. This book addresses the theory and practice of sustainability assessment applications, drawing from experiences globally in a variety of sectors and presenting lessons learned. Diverse international case studies from professionals and academics demonstrate progress so far in exploring openings, testing approaches to application and establishing best practice. The book illustrates means of specifying generic sustainability criteria for the context of particular applications, reports on the resulting insights, and examines the barriers and opportunities for further advances. This book is an important resource for students, academics and professionals in the areas of Governance, Environmental Assessment, Planning and Policy Making, Corporate Social Responsibility and Applied Sustainability.

Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland
Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland

Author: Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (Canada)

Publisher: Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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A two volume report dealing with the broad social, economic, and environmental impacts that a gas pipeline and an energy corridor would have in the Mackenzie Valley and the western arctic. Among the recommendations made was that there should be no pipeline across the northern Yukon.

Sustainability Assessment
Sustainability Assessment

Author: Alan James Bond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0415598486

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Currently the writing on the subject is limited and comprises, for the most part, guidance documents and completed assessments.

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.

Social Impact Analysis And Development Planning In The Third World
Social Impact Analysis And Development Planning In The Third World

Author: William Derman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1000311767

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Although national governments and international agencies have committed vast sums of money to development, many projects have not only failed to improve the lives of the poor but in some cases have created additional social and economic problems. Such failures can often be traced to an inadequate understanding of the socio-cultural reality of the people most directly affected and to a lack of their participation in project planning, implementation, and evaluation. In this collection of essays, scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines examine many of the perplexing social issues of development planning from the perspective of social impact analysis. Drawing on national, regional, and local case studies, the authors demonstrate why sociocultural factors are seldom adequately understood and discuss how they can be effectively incorporated into the planning process.

Environmental Assessment of the Taylor Highway-Klondike Highway Realignment
Environmental Assessment of the Taylor Highway-Klondike Highway Realignment

Author: United States. Federal Power Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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This realignment is a proposed alternative route that deviates from the proposed Alcan Pipeline route. It deviates near Tetlin Junction and follows the Taylor Highway north to the junction of Top of the World Highway (called Boundary Highway in the report), and from there into Yukon where it meets up with the Klondike Highway. From there the realignment runs southeast to Whitehorse, where the original route is resumed.

The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability
The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability

Author: Ray C. Anderson

Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1933782730

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The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability provides extensive coverage of sustainability practices in two regions linked culturally and historically by their relative isolation before the Columbian exchange, by their colonization after it, and by the challenges of pollution, resource overuse, and environmental degradation. Regional experts and international scholars focus on environmental history in areas such as the South Pacific islands, now particularly threatened by rising ocean levels due to climate change, and on countries whose governments and corporations can play a major role in promoting or discouraging sustainable choices: Brazil, an emergent power on the world stage; the United States, the world's third most populous nation; and New Zealand, seemingly on its way to becoming an enviable model of sustainable development.