Valued components (VCs) are at the core of impact assessment (IA), cumulative effects
management (CEM), and other environmental planning and management processes …

Despite the central role of valued ecosystem component (VEC) selection to project impact
assessment (IA) and cumulative effects assessment (CEA), little is known about what …

Cumulative effects assessment (CEA) for environmental impact assessments are required
by some Canadian and American legislation. However, there is confusion concerning …

Despite all the effort that has gone into defining, researching and establishing best practices
for cumulative effects assessment (CEA), understanding remains weak and practice …

Significance determination, often also referred to as significance evaluation and significance
assessment, is a core element in EIA and is thus relevant throughout the EIA process, eg, in …

Evaluations of environmental impact assessment (EIA) experiences are often anecdotal,
raising the issue of generalizing beyond unique local conditions. A cross section of ten EIA …

Progress in adopting EIA as an environmental management tool has been extremely slow in
developing countries, with only nine of the 121 countries having established frameworks for …

Regional cumulative effects management systems monitor and seek to maintain or restore
the condition of valued biophysical, social, economic and cultural components over time …

Impact scoping is the process of identifying important issues of a proposal and focusing the
environmental impact assessment (EIA) on the high-priority issues. Although impact scoping …

Loolung at experience with environmental assessment over the past decades,
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is perhaps the most tested and best known …