Contributors

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Contributors

Hugh Benevides has degrees in geography (Carleton) and law (Dal-

housie) and is called to the bars of Ontario and Nova Scotia. He has

worked as legislative assistant in the House of Commons, as coun-

sel to the Canadian Environmental Law Association and East Coast

Environmental Law, and as Canadian legal ocer at the Secretariat of

the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. He

was strategic advisor to leading public interest groups in their federal

law reform eorts from 2017 to 2020 and was an alternate delegate, and

later, a delegate to the Multi-Interest Advisory Committee from 2016 to

2019. His main research interests concern Canada’s political economy

and its implications for environmental law and policy.

Jill Blakley is an associate professor in the Department of Geography

and Planning, University of Saskatchewan. Jill specializes in cumulative

eects assessment and strategic environmental assessment, particularly

related to regional-scale natural resource development programs. She

serves as a member of the Parks Canada Strategic Environmental Assess-

ment Continuous Improvement Program Committee and is lead editor

of the forthcoming volume Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment

(Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc, 2021). Her work to

establish principles and a process for regional strategic environmental

assessment is endorsed by the Canadian Council of Ministers of the

Environment, and has been applied by Transport Canada, the Wildlife