ERS215 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Adaptive Management, Food Security, Strategic Environmental Assessment

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

Document Summary

Adapted to the context understand and respect community. Adaptive and communicative accommodate for different people. Imputable feedback and reporting: operating principles: Well planned and focused on negotiable issues. Open and transparent access to info and participation. Credible and rigorous ethical, impartial facilitation. Why do it: only those living in the community can determine their needs and values and if the decisions impact them significantly you are your own master, benefits at the. Scoping: inform community on what is being done in the area and the normal condition (baseline) because they are most familiar with it. Reporting and review: opportunity for public to challenge eis and identify any omissions and provide input. Follow-up: include locals in monitoring to develop credibility and trust: benefits of pp: Provides access to wider range of information. Enhances legitimacy and accountability of decisions made. Helps define problems and identify socially acceptable solutions. Clarifies goals and objectives in context of community.