Main description:

The purpose of this work is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and conservation and natural resource professionals. There has been technical and policy research exploring how cumulative environmental impacts can be assessed and managed. These studies, however, have failed to consider the necessary integration of community, environment and health. Informed by knowledge and experience in northern British Columbia, this book seeks to expand our understanding of the cumulative impacts of natural resource development through an integrated lens. The book offers a timely response to a growing imperative - proposing integrative response to multiple natural resource developments in a way that addresses converging environment, community and health issues. Informed by the editors' experiences across several complementary areas of expertise, we envision this book as appealing to a wide range of researchers, educators and practitioners, with relevance to a growing audience with appetite for and interest in integrative approaches.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Part I

Chapter 1 Cumulative Effects and Impacts: The Need for a More Inclusive, Integrative, Regional Approach

Chapter 2 Defining and Identifying Cumulative Environmental, Health, and Community Impacts

Part II

Chapter 3 Cumulative Impacts and Environmental Values

Chapter 4 Cumulative Effects and Impacts: Introducing a Community Perspective

Chapter 5 Perspectives on Health and Well-Being: Cumulative Determinants of Health Impacts in Rural, Northern, and Resource-Dependent Communities

Chapter 6 Exploring Cumulative Effects and Impacts through Examples

Part IV

Chapter 7 An Imperative for Change: Towards an Integrative Understanding

Chapter 8 A Revolution in Strategy, Not Evolution of Practice: Towards an Integrative Regional Cumulative Impacts Framework

Index

Contributors