ENV201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: National Environmental Policy Act
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2. a brief history of environmental impact assessments in canada and the us. Ecological footprints: reducing overall consumption of person, institution, nation (assignment 3) Impact assessments: infrastructure, activities, and policy (week 7) Lifecycle assessments: consumable materials and goods (week 8) Ghg inventories, triple bottom line accounting (week 9) Iaia: identifying, predicting, evaluating, and mitigating the biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to major decisions being taken and commitments made. Ceaa: planning tool to identify, understand, assess, and mitigate the environmental effects of a project. Consider environmental impact prior to decisions and implement ways to avoid or mitigate impacts. First in u. s. through the national environmental protection act (1969: encourage productive harmony between man [sic]and his environment . Led to u. s. council on environmental quality (1973): defined when eia needed to legally occur. Environmental assessment review process(1973: envisioned a cooperative and constructive negotiation process, away from courts, at discretion of federal environmental minister for federal land.
