This paper discusses trends in recent academic literature on cumulative effects assessment
(CEA) in the field of environmental impact assessment (IA). We performed an inductive …

Anthropogenic landscape disturbances, including industrial development, can have
significant impacts on wildlife populations. In Canada, federal, territorial, and provincial laws …

Legal challenges have played an important role in shaping the practices and policies of
impact assessment (IA) for more than half a century. Early cases provided the impetus to the …

Cumulative effects assessment (CEA), as a required practice for the environmental
assessment (EA) of projects in many countries, faces several practical challenges …

A longstanding critique of project-level environmental assessment is that it is weak at
addressing cumulative effects, and because of this many argue that cumulative effects are …

Indicator selection is a critical step in conducting effective strategic cumulative effects
assessments. Selecting an appropriate set of indicators to represent multiple and sometimes …

Cumulative effects assessments (CEA) evolved to holistically understand and account for
the impact of a spectrum of human and natural disturbances on ecosystems. Yet, the …

The release of sea turtle hatchlings has become an important tourist activity in several beach
destinations; however, this activity has generated crowds and inadequate situations that …

Most development activities have individually minor impact, but collectively over time their
impact on the environment is more substantial. The available environmental circumstances …

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