Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment - Couverture rigide

 
9781783474011: Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment

Synopsis

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.



Taking an international and transdisciplinary approach, this Handbook provides readers with frameworks and methodologies currently in use by leading academics, consultants and many others involved in cumulative impact assessment and management. This wide-ranging body of work demonstrates increased application of relevant, cross-disciplinary science to cumulative impact assessment problems, as well as a continued commitment to bridge the theory and practice gap for more effective and efficient assessments. Chapters also address contemporary and often controversial issues across a variety of sectors including agriculture, energy, watershed management, regional land use planning, and transport.



This cutting-edge Handbook will be of great interest to academics and students who wish to further develop their understanding of key concepts within the field. It will also be beneficial to practitioners, industry, government officials and the many organizations involved in cumulative impact assessment processes.

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À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Jill A.E. Blakley, Associate Professor of Environmental Impact Assessment, Department of Geography and Planning and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Daniel M. Franks, Professor of Governance and Leadership in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, Australia

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