ENV201H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Public Participation, Change Impact Analysis
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Chapter 17- env assessment in canada: encouraging decisions for sustainability. At its core, ea is a decision-making process that helps to ensure minimum regret planning". Through assessment, we attempt to ensure that externalities are identified, evaluated, and incorporated into the planning and decision-making processes. Ea is in principle, no more than a process by which common sense concerns about community futures are incorporated into decisions that will affect the future". Thus, ea is a tool available to governments to achieve the societal objectives of env protection and sustainable development. Ea is now carried out in over 100 countries and in most nations it has evolved from being voluntary + discretionary to more mandatory in process and substance. This view is captures by gibson and hanna"s (2009) 4 stages of ea process (table 17. 1- pg 464) Ea amounts to opening up a political decision-making process to public and expert scrutiny.
