This article explores the diversity of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice in Canada and lessons for improving the effectiveness of SEA. There are multiple dimensions to effectiveness, but core to SEA effectiveness is its strategic nature. SEA under the Canadian federal Cabinet directive ...
Law and policy options for strategic environmental assessment in Canada. Ottawa, Canada: Report prepared for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.H. Benevides et al., "Law and Policy Options for Strategic Environmental Assessment in Canada", Report submitted to the Canadian Environmental ...
Intervener Funding (IF) has been adopted in Canada as a means of providing financial assistance to individuals or groups to allow them to participate in the Environmental Assessment process. In Ontario funds are allocated to interest groups (interveners) when their interests represent an issue which...
In Canada, for example, EA requirements for major projects are legislated federally under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012, and under the laws of each of Canada’s provinces and territories. In Europe, the European Union EIA Directive 2011/92/EU sets out the provisions for EA, ...
assessment process depends on the capability of the chosen institutional arrangements to achieve the desired goal. The proposed federal procedure is ex amined and several weaknesses identified. One is the absence of legislative measures to support the process. The United States National Environmental ...
Inorganic arsenic: Evaluation of risks to health from environmental exposure in Canadadoi:10.1080/10590509409373436In this assessment of arsenic as a Priority Substance under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, available data were critically evaluated to determine if levels of arsenic present in the...
The ordered sequence of risk assessment and the application of risk estimation techniques are considered. It is clear that the ultimate political decision is not amenable to simplistic scientific analysis, although risk analysis is valuable in defining, rather than solving, the problem.关键词:...
Building environmental performance assessment criteria (BEPAC) is the first comprehensive method in Canada for evaluating the environmental performance of both new and existing office buildings. BEPAC is comprised of a comprehensive set of environmental criteria, structured in five major topics : ozone ...
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has, since the 1970s, become established as a major procedure for assessing the environmental implications of legislation, the implementation of policy and plans and the initiation of development projects. Enshrined in legislation in the USA, Canada, Australia, the...
Public hearings for EIAs in post-communist Bulgaria: do they work? The participatory practices required as part of the established systems of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) practiced in the United States, Canada, We... HL Almer,TM Koontz - 《Environmental Impact Assessment Review》 被引量...