ERS215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, Environmental Impact Assessment

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environment and Resource Studies
• Course: ERS215
• Professor: Denis Kirchhoff

Document Summary

Identify and predict the negative impacts of proposed development. Ensure that development decisions are made in the full knowledge of their environmental consequences. Find ways to avoid or minimize significant negative biophysical and social- economic impacts. According to the canadian environmental assessment act (ceaa) 2012, objectives are: Minimize or avoid negative environmental effects before they occur. Resident: public relations tool used by developers to justify" decisions or as a way to ensure accountability of developers. Ngo: a tool to improve involvement of stakeholders in decision-making or as a means of preventing development from proceeding. Purposive the process should inform decision-making and result in appropriate levels of environmental protection and community well-being. Practical the process should result in information and outputs which assist with problem solving and are acceptable to and able to be implemented by proponents. Focused the process should concentrate on significant environmental effects and key issues.