Chapter 7 - Planning and Management Process Methods Flashcards
What are the five key challenges associated with Impact Assessment?
- Types of Initiatives to be assessed
- Strategic environmental assessment
- When impact assessment should be done
- Determining the significance of impacts and effects
- Inadequate understanding of ecosystems
Define the importance of collaboration:
It involves exchanging information, modifying activities in light of others’ needs, sharing resources , and enhancing the capacity of others to achieve mutual benefit and realize common goals or purposes.
Define Co-ordination:
The effective or harmonious working together of different departments, groups, and individuals
Once ________ is agreed to, then co-ordination can take place
collaboration
True or false: Collaboration is increasingly accepted as desirable, but it is not always accepted or endorsed by everyone
True
What is an example of Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory processes in Canada?
The MB Sustainable Development Act (1998)
What three key things did the MB Sustainable Development Act do?
- Developed principles and guidelines for sustainable
development - Public participation was recognized explicitly
- Consensus among citizens regarding decisions affecting them
What situation led to the term “stakeholders”?
During the 1980s, dissatisfaction with the
process, methods, and products associated
with many resource and environmental
management decisions began to rise
Define Stakeholders:
Those who should be included in decisions because of their direct interest.
Who can be considered a stakeholder? (3)
- any public agency with prescribed management responsibilities
- all interests significantly affected by a decision
- all parties who might intervene in the decision making process to facilitate, block, or delay it
What has partnership been implemented through
Co-management
At an international conference focused on ‘climate change communication’, organizers observed that communication has three main purposes:
- raise awareness;
- confer understanding; and
- motivate action.
We should ensure that messages are created with regard to who the _____________ will be and what their level of understanding is.
target audience
What is EIA?
Environmental Impact Assessment
What does a risk assessment do?
It focuses on determining the probability of an environmentally or socially negative event of some specified magnitude.
Define the Precautionary Principle:
In order to protect the environment when there are risks of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty regarding the extent or possibility of risk should not be used as an excuse for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation
Provide an example of the Precautionary Principle:
Acting on something if the bulk of scientific evidence suggests that action is needed , even if some knowledge is incomplete
What is a SEA?
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Define Strategic Environmental Assessment:
Focuses on policies, plans, and programs (PPPs ) in order to integrate environmental considerations at the earliest possible stage of decision making
When does a SEA occur?
SEA occurs before development decisions are made and when alternative futures and options for the development are still open
True or false: In IA, emphasis is on opportunities, regions, and sectors as opposed to projects
True
True of False: EIAs have been used as a tool for establishing which mitigation measures could be used to address negative impacts
True
It is difficult to determine the ___________ or ____________ of impacts and effects
significance, implications
What is one of the key challenges in the significance determination stage of an EIA?
The issues in a dispute do not lend themselves to a monetary valuation; instead, they are characterized by intangible features
