ERS215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Good Governance, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, National Environmental Policy Act

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

Document Summary

Ers 215 textbook notes chapter 1. Biophysical environment: consists of air, water, land, rocks, minerals, plants, animals, and the interacting components of ecosystems. Canadian environmental assessment act: the legal basis for federal ea in canada from 1995 to 2012; sets out responsibilities and procedures for ea of projects that involve federal authorities; introduced to. Parliament in 1992 proclaimed in 1995 and revised in 2003. Canadian environmental assessment act 2012: the current legal basis for ea in canada, effective in july. 2012, sets out responsibilities and procedures for projects that involve federal authorities, proclaimed in. Cost-benefit analysis: an assessment method that expresses project impacts in monetary terms. Environment: all environments, including biophysical, social and economic components. Environmental change: measurable change in an environmental parameter over time. Environmental effect: the difference in the condition of an environmental parameter with as opposed to without a proposed development activity.