Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment

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

‘The book will be most useful to researchers and practitioners interested in moving forward with the practice and implementation of cumulative impact assessment.’

• Contents:Foreword xvThomas R. BergerForeword xxSara BiceForeword xxiiiPeter CroalForeword xxviRenée PelletierPART I FOUNDATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT1 Introduction: Foundations, issues and contemporary challenges incumulative impact assessment 2Jill Blakley2 Cumulative effects assessment requirements in selected developed anddeveloping countries 21Ayodele Olagunju, Divine Odame Appiah, Paulina Maria Porto Silva Cavalcanti,Bridget Durning, Juan Carlos Tejeda-González, Jason McLean, Richard Morgan,and Rebecca Nelson3 Anatomy of a cumulative effects issue: farmland drainage, watershedlandscape change and wetland loss in east-central Saskatchewan, Canada 43Jeff Olson4 The challenge of cumulative effects assessment at the project level 62George HegmannPART II APPROACHES AND TOOLS5 Conceptualizing cumulative social impacts in complex development environments 75Ilse Aucamp and Stephan Woodborne6 Scenario planning in cumulative effects assessment 92Peter N. Duinker and Lorne A. Greig7 Measures to effectively forecast potential cumulative effects 106Chris Sunderland8 Cumulative impacts and strategic environmental assessment: policydevelopment for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef 123Evan Hamman, Karen Vella, and Umberto Baresi9 The challenge and opportunity of applying ecological thresholds toenvironmental assessment decision making 140Chris J. Johnson and Justina C. Ray10 Assessing cumulative effects in regional and strategic assessment 158Bram Noble and Jill Blakley11 A systems approach to cumulative social impact assessment 174Bill Grace and Jenny PopePART III CUMULATIVE IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE12 Mitigating cumulative biodiversity impacts 191Riki Thérivel, Jill Blakley, and Jo Treweek13 ‘Green’ is good, but is more ‘green’ always better? Wind farm developmentand cumulative social impact assessment 213James Baines14 Cumulative impact assessment for groundwater 230Sue Vink, Paul Howe, and Chris Moran15 Fourteen lessons from road ecology for cumulative effect assessments 250Jochen A. G. Jaeger and Aurora Torres16 Cumulative effects assessment and management in Alberta 274Chris Powter and Dallas Johnson17 Holistic cumulative effects assessments for watershed risk assessment 294Barry J. WilsonPART IV CUMULATIVE IMPACT MANAGEMENT18 The limitations of utilizing collaborative governance for cumulative effectsassessment and management 311Richard D. Margerum19 Using indicators to measure outcomes: adaptive assessment 325Will Rifkin20 Cumulative effects and governance in the Yukon: honouring the treaty relationship 346Kiri Staples and Lindsay Staples21 Monitoring that matters: towards effective ecological monitoring to addresscumulative impacts on biodiversity 361A. Cole Burton and Cheryl-Lesley B. ChetkiewiczIndex