The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

Preliminary Sections

• Preliminary sections
• Contributors
• Table of Cases
• Index

Introduction and Context

• Introduction
• The Evolution of Canadian Environmental Assessment Practice and Literature
• A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act
• An Overview of the Impact Assessment Act

Reflections on the Impact Assessment Act

• The Process of Reform: Real Change?
• Federal Jurisdiction and the Impact Assessment Act: Trojan Horse or Rational Ecological Accounting?
• UNDRIP, Decision Making, and the Role of Indigenous Peoples
• Project Impact Assessments: Triggering and Coverage
• Putting Multi-jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action Under the Impact Assessment Act
• Introducing the Impact Assessment Act's Sustainability-Based Agenda
• Purpose, Need, and Alternatives Through the Lens of Sustainability and the Public Interest
• The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment
• Assessing the Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Other Identity Factors in the New Canadian Impact Assessment Act
• Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act
• Sustainability-Based Decision Making
• Considering the Potential for Meaningful Public Participation Under Canada's Impact Assessment Act
• Monitoring, Follow-Up, Adaptive Management, and Compliance in the Post-decision Phase
• Strategic and Regional Environmental Assessments
• Impact Assessment for Projects on Federal Lands and Outside Canada: The 'Federal Projects' Process
• Transparency and Accountability in Decision Making: Does the Impact Assessment Act Support Credible Decision Making?
• Human Rights and the Impact Assessment Act: Proponents and Consultants as Duty Bearers
• Science and Indigenous Knowledge as the Evidentiary Basis for Impact Assessment
• A Learning-Focused Analysis of Canada's Impact Assessment Act

Overall Assessment of the Impact Assessment Act

• Entering the Next Generation of Impact Assessment in Canada
• The Path Forward