Download or read book Development of a Decision Support Tool for Resource Management in Support of a Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Canadian Beaufort Sea written by Gartner Lee Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re[prt accompanies a GIS-based decision support tool and database that are intended to facilitat the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of oil and gas leasing options for a portion of the Beaufort Sea.
Download or read book Quality Through Policy written by Andrew Brian Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ensure environmental excellence in its own operations, the government of Canada has been formally committed to strategic environmental assessment (SEA) since 1990. As an environmental assessment tool, the federal government uses SEA to predict the environmental effects of policy, plan and program proposals and uses these predictions to inform the decision making process. However, evidence suggests that application of SEA in Canada has been inadequate and the quality of the assessments has been poor. This study investigates the quality of Canadian SEA and provides recommendations to improve its value as an important decision-making support tool. Based on content analysis of four SEAs representing Canada's dual stream of policy and legislated approaches, SEA quality is assessed and alternative approaches of SEA are examined. Drawing on these findings, the study proposes alternative options for SEA delivery. After evaluating these alternatives, the study recommends a series of options to improve SEA quality.
Download or read book Assessment of Drilling Waste Disposal Options in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region written by AMEC Earth and Environmental and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Management Capability written by William E. Rees and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submission addresses two areas of government capability: first pertaining to the structure and function of the Environmental Assessment Review Panel itself, with particular reference to the Beaufort Sea review, and second relating to 'what comes next', government's general preparedness to manage whatever scale of development eventually occurs in the Mackenzie Delta - Beaufort Sea region.
Download or read book Sea Ice Bridging Spatial Temporal Scales and Disciplines written by Hauke Flores and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
Download or read book Integrated Approaches to Resource Planning and Management written by Banff Centre. Resource Management Program and published by [Banff, Alta.] : Resource Management Programs. This book was released on 1986 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of public land and resources is not always dealt with in a comprehensive manner when discussed in many forums. This volume includes papers that consolidate various ideas on the subject.
Download or read book A Decision Support System for Environmental Assessment written by S. Simic and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowledge based Or Expert Systems and Decision Support Tools for Environmental Assessment and Management written by Alan Gray and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiple Objective Decision Making For Land Water and Environmental Management written by Samir A. El-Swaify and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-26 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction, rationale, and relevance of MODSS. Addressing diverse client needs. MODSS methodologies, tools, components, and integration. Applicability to economic, social, policy, risk, and sustainability issues. Applicability to national, regional, and global issues.
Download or read book Informing Environmental Decisions written by Task Force on a Canadian Information System for the Environment (Canada) and published by Hull, Quebec : The Task Force. This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed Canadian Information System for the Environment (CISE) aims to ensure easy & timely access by decision makers, citizens, communities, and the private sector to the reliable information they need to make informed decisions relating to the environment. The introduction to this interim report explains the need for the CISE, the problems it will address, and the resulting benefits to Canadians. Chapter 2 lays out the basic foundations to guide the design & implementation of the CISE, including its principles & scope. Chapter 3 addresses the data resource infrastructure of the CISE and chapter 4 focusses on cross-cutting requirements that support an integrated & strategic approach to environmental management or are common across policy sectors. Chapter 5 addresses how data & information can be made accessible to information users, and considers methods of raising citizen awareness & encouraging involvement in environmental issues. The final chapter outlines future steps & the forthcoming consultations on the CISE. Appendices include descriptions of conceptual frameworks for the CISE and a preliminary analysis of current gaps in environmental information.
Download or read book Design and Implementation of a Decision Support System for Environmental Effects Monitoring written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Considerations in the Design of Effects Monitoring Strategies written by David John Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this study is to develop and describe a systematic framework within which programs to monitor environmental effects of industrial activity in the Beaufort Sea area, can be designed to produce sound and relevant results of greater long term value.
Download or read book Community Participation in Environmental Information Management electronic Resource Exploring Tools for Developing an Impact Assessment Preparedness Program written by Meredith, Thomas C and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Participatory Decision support Tools to Improve Environmental Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Planning and Decision Making written by Denis Kirchhoff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has a prominent position in the ongoing search for instruments that can help governments and other organizations to pursue the goal of sustainability. SEA is presented here as a decision-making supportive approach that is meant to improve strategic initiatives, rather than just analysing them. As an approach to planning (as opposed to a mechanical technical instrument that is done on the side and 'might' inform the big decisions), SEA has been promoted as a promising instrument expected to be able to provide better informed, more credible and more broadly beneficial strategic initiatives, as well as more timely and clearer guidance for subsequent undertakings. As such, by adjusting and improving planning, governance, and decision-making processes, SEA has a major role in contributing to sustainability. One of the many different planning and decision-making contexts in which SEA can be used is growth-related planning - the object of interest of this research. Planning in a growth context is typically driven by a mix of biophysical, social and economic concerns, and is unavoidably complex, with many independent agents interacting with each other in many ways, all of this involving the full range of intersecting sustainability issues. In this research I explore the concept of sustainability as an overall planning goal, as it relates to a particular approach to planning, i.e., strategic environmental assessment. In addition, this research acknowledges the importance and need to address the context in which SEA applications occur, and therefore, it highlights the need to specify the application for particular areas. This research was guided by an interest in improving understanding of how SEA can help to contribute to sustainability through planning/EA processes and activities, especially in the context of growth-related planning. Above all, this research addressed how SEA best practices can be used to improve regional planning and decision making, including its link to the project level, and how regional planning experience can help illuminate possible means of strengthening SEA practice. As such, this research presents how a sustainability-based SEA approach could contribute to growth-related planning in a rapid growth setting, using York Region, Ontario as the empirical case study. While York Region was not using the SEA nametag, some essential characteristics of SEA were found in a few planning initiatives, in accordance with what some scholars have called a SEA-type approach, i.e., an approach that does not meet formal specifications or definitions of SEA, but which has some of the SEA characteristics or components. This research presents three main scholarly contributions. First, it develops a SEA best practice framework based on the international literature and, as a result, it provides SEA practitioners with a useful generic framework that they can use as guidance and a starting point for SEA studies. In addition, this research brings to light the importance of paying attention to contextual issues in order to make successful use of SEA best practice frameworks. The context of application will always be unique, so the particularities of the case will still need to be carefully considered and incorporated, so that application can be customized to the particular case. Second, this research further develops the discussion about what SEA can achieve, or more specifically, how SEA can help to contribute to sustainability. As such, this research contributes to the discussion about how SEA can help planning and decision-making approaches through a more in depth look at three main components of SEA: sustainability-centred decision making, tiering and communication. The third contribution relates to how SEA adoption becomes a priority or how governments become interested enough in SEA application to actually give it a shot. The concept of a policy window was borrowed from the policy sciences field to provide the framework of analysis for this part of the research, and shows how problem, policy and political streams converged to provide the necessary conditions for the adoption of an SEA-type approach in York Region. In sum, the results of this research suggest that SEA has potential to play an important role in planning and decision making, with particular attention to growth-related planning. In this context, SEA can contribute to planning and decision making that is more integrated, farsighted, open, efficient, credible and defensible, and ultimately brings desirable and durable benefits. Moreover, by providing clearer guidance to the subsequent undertaking, SEA has potential to serve as a bridge to the planning of project-level undertakings.
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Beaufort Sea Environmental Assessment Panel Review written by Barry Sadler and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Assessment written by Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
