Download or read book Assessing the Effects of a Project on Health and Socio economic Conditions Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act written by Katherine Davies and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A nother New Federal Regime for Assessing Interprovincial Pipeline Projects written by Martin Olszynski and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 8, 2018, after nearly two years of expert panel and parliamentary committee review, the federal Liberal government tabled Bill C-69, "An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts." As further set out below, the proposed Impact Assessment Act (IAA) can be described as a bulked-up version of the current Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA, 2012). Like CEAA, 2012, the IAA is built around a designated project list rather than being triggered by federal decision-making generally (as the original Canadian Environmental Assessment Act was). The main differences include a new "planning phase" where before there was only a screening decision, the elimination of any standing test for public participation, and an expansion of the scope of assessments, including not just environmental effects but also social, economic, and health effects that fall within Parliament's legislative jurisdiction. The federal government will also have to consider, among other things, a project's contribution to sustainability and whether it contributes to or hinders Canada's ability to meet its climate change commitments. This brief paper considers these changes from the perspective of a future inter-provincial pipeline project.
Download or read book Canadian Handbook on Health Impact Assessment written by Federal/Provincial/Territorial Committee on Environmental and Occupational Health (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Impact Assessment written by John Kemm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a comprehensive overview of the concepts, theory, techniques and applications of Health Impact Assessment to aid all those preparing projects or carrying out assessments. It draws on examples and thinking from many different disciplines and many parts of the world. This is the first easily accessible book, which reviews the whole field. It is likely to become the standard reference for HIA and the first place that anyone seeking to learn about the subject will turn.
Download or read book The Integration Imperative written by Michael P. Gillingham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Environmental and Health Impact Assessment of Development Projects written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook for practitioners in environmental and public health, environmental management, toxicology and ecotoxicology has been prepared by an international group of experts from both developing and developed countries and covers a wide range of topics in both environmental impact assessment and environmental health impact assessment.
Download or read book Health and Environmental Impact Assessment written by British Medical Association and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text shows why we need to develop an integrated approach to health and environmental impact assessment of development projects, and how this might be achieved. Case studies and examples are provided
Download or read book U S Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Download or read book Cumulative Environmental Effects written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Applications of Ecological Theory to Environmental Problems and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cumulative effects of multiple environmental perturbations of natural and social systems were identified as needing study because of a lack of a clear and unambiguous definition of cumulative effects assessment, despite the widespread recognition of its importance. There is increasing concern that neither scientists nor institutions work at the temporal and spatial scales needed for the assessment of cumulative effects. The workshop explored these issues, identified current scientific and management techniques of dealing with cumulative effects, and to recommended research and management priorities for improving the management of cumulative effects.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Environmental and Social Impact Assessment written by Christopher J. Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards an Environmental Assessment Network written by Tom Shillington and published by Agence canadienne d'évaluation environnementale. This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, based on a draft paper prepared by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and reviewed by Summit participants, presents the results of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency-sponsored study. The paper offers a framework on how such a network could be organised and operated, and explains how the CEAA has used the framework to develop its site on the Internet. The report is also a contribution to the International Study of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment. The document proposes a framework for an EA network and looks at the experience of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.
Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : sold by OECD Publications and Information Center]. This book was released on 1979 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidance for Evaluating Human Health Impacts in Environmental Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This document provides generic guidance on predicting health risks of water quality in federal environmental assessments (EAs) of proposed major resource and infrastructure projects (such as mines, dams, pipelines and other projects). It presents the principles, current practices and basic information Health Canada looks for when it reviews environmental impact statement (EIS) or other reports submitted by project proponents as part of the EA process. It was prepared for the benefit of proponents and their consultants and to support an efficient and transparent project review process. The foundational information described here should be supplemented appropriately with additional information relevant to specific projects. The guidance was also prepared for responsible authorities and stakeholders to the EA process to communicate our normal areas of engagement and our priorities within these areas to help ensure that sufficient evidence is available to support sound decisions. As part of its review, Health Canada may suggest that a responsible authority (RA), review panel or others collect information not specifically described here in order to assess the health effects of specific projects. As the guidance provided here is generic and designed to support EA under multiple jurisdictions, the scope of our review will also necessarily be amended according to specific jurisdictional requirements"--Purpose, p. 2.
Download or read book Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products provides a map, a skeleton and a flash light for stakeholders engaging in the assessment of social and socio-economic impacts of products life cycle. The map describes the context, the key concepts, the broader field in which tools and techniques are getting developed and their scope of application. The skeleton presents key elements to consider and provide guidance for the goal and scope, inventory, impact assessment and interpretation phases of a social life cycle assessment. The flash light highlights areas where further research is needed. Social Life Cycle Assessment is a technique available to account for stories and inform systematically on impacts that otherwise would be lost in the vast and fast moving sea of our modern world. May it help stakeholders to effectively and efficiently engage to improve social and socio-economic conditions of production and consumption
Download or read book Perspectives on Strategic Environmental Assessment written by Maria Rosario Partidario and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An environmental assessment must be performed whenever a property transaction takes place. Those who donít may find themselves responsible for the past misdeeds of others. This book contains contributions by professionals from various locations who use Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as a tool applied to water management issues. SEA helps make decisions that increase sustainability. Because of its procedural nature, it necessarily becomes tailor-made to different applications. Easily understood and geographic in scope, this book presents leading edge thinking and first hand knowledge on the applications of SEA in water management. Perspectives on Strategic Environmental Assessment is a comprehensive guidebook for performing environmental assessments all over the world. No other source provides you with as much information on the applications of SEA as a policy assessment and management tool. This book provides a blueprint for environmental assessments that safeguards you from the oversights of others.
Download or read book Projecting the Regional Demo economic Impacts of Natural Resource Mega projects electronic Resource a Comparison of Two Techniques Background Paper Report written by Knight, Nancy and published by [Hull, Quebec] : Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council. This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
