Environmental impact assessment: practice and participation

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmenta l Impac t Assessmen t

Practice and Participation

Edited by Kevin s. Hanna

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publìcation

Environmental ừnpaa assessment: practice and participation / edited by

Kevin s. Hanna. — 2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-19-543022-6

1. Environmental impact analysis—Canada—Textbooks.

ì. Hanna, Kevin s. (Kevin Stuart), 1961-

TD194.68.C3 E55 2009 333.71'40971 C2009-900878-5

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This second edition is dedìcated to the memory of

Len Gertler

1923-2005

Len was one of Canada's leading city and regional planners. He was the íounding

director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning át the University of Water￾loo, which he joined in 1966. Following his retirement from teaching, he became

vice-chair of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal. His research and writ￾ing íocused ôn regional planning, urban policy, and the Canadian environment.

One of his most signiíkant and lasting achievements was to head the planning

study, commissioned by the province of Ontario, thát led to the protection of the

Niagara Escarpment by the Government of Ontario and its subsequent designa￾tion as a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.

Foreword

Bruce Mitchell

Environmental Impact Assessment: Process, Practice,

and Critique

Environmental Impact Assessment: Process, Setting, and

Efficacy 3

Kevin s. Hanna

Progress and Uncertainty: The Evolution of Federal

Environmental Assessment in Canada 18

Robert B. Gibson and Kevin s. Hanna

The Science of Assessment: Identiíying and Predicting

Environraental Impacts 37

Dougỉas Baker and Eric Rapaport

Public Participation in Canadian Environmental Assessment:

Enduring Challenges and Future Directions 58

A. John Sinclair and Alan Diduck

The Hearing Process in Environmental Impact Assessment:

As Concept and as Practised in Ontario 83

Len Gertler

Strategic Environmental Assessment 103

Bram R Noble and Jill Harriman-Gunn

Social Impact Assessment and High-Level Radioactive Waste

Disposal: The Canadian Concept and Aboriginal Responses 131

Rón Pushchak andAnn Marie Farrugia-ưhalde

The Cheviot Mine Project: Cumulative Effects Assessraent

Lessons for Proíessional Practice 158

Roger Creasey and William A. Ross

Multi-jurisdictional Environmental Assessment 173

Patrkia Fitzpatrkk andA. John Sinclair