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Environmental Management
Erschienen in: Environmental Management 5/2022

25.03.2022

Assessing the Cumulative Social Effects of Projects: Lessons from Canadian Hydroelectric Development

verfasst von: Lauren M. Arnold, Kevin Hanna, Bram Noble, Sarah E. Gergel, William Nikolakis

Erschienen in: Environmental Management | Ausgabe 5/2022

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Abstract

Cumulative effects assessments are often expected to include an analysis of cumulative social effects to people, their communities, and livelihoods caused by resource development projects and land use activities. Understanding cumulative social effects is important for decisions about prospective resource development projects, but there has been limited attention devoted to how to complete such an assessment. This paper critically examines how cumulative effects frameworks are applied to social impacts during environmental assessments. We do this by analyzing semi-structured interviews exploring practitioner experience in environmental assessments for hydroelectric development in British Columbia and Manitoba, Canada. The results provide a conceptual framework for cumulative social effects and illustrate how identified challenges for cumulative effects assessment are exacerbated by social impacts that introduce additional complexities in impact identification, assessment, and decision-making. The paper concludes with a discussion of how these challenges can be addressed and recommendations for improving environmental assessment practice.
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The terms cumulative effect and impact are often used interchangeably. We recognize that effects can be distinguished as observable, measurable changes, and impacts as the consequences to environmental and social systems that result from these changes (Blakley 2021). However, we also note that the term cumulative effects is often used in project EA to refer to residual significant cumulative impacts to environmental and social systems. In this paper we do not distinguish between effects and impacts. Cumulative social effects/impacts are used to describe cumulative changes to social systems.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Assessing the Cumulative Social Effects of Projects: Lessons from Canadian Hydroelectric Development
verfasst von
Lauren M. Arnold
Kevin Hanna
Bram Noble
Sarah E. Gergel
William Nikolakis
Publikationsdatum
25.03.2022
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Environmental Management / Ausgabe 5/2022
Print ISSN: 0364-152X
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1009
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01622-x

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