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Business & Economics Sustainable Development

The Role of Science in Environmental Impacts Assessment

Workshop Proceedings

edited by Eric Higgs, Mary Richardson & Rick Riewe

by (author) E. Fred Roots, Andrew L. Hamilton, M. Hussein Sadar, John McEwen & Valerius Geist

Publisher
The University of Alberta Press, Athabasca University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1994
Category
Sustainable Development
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781772121575
    Publish Date
    Jan 1994
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919058880
    Publish Date
    Jan 1994
    List Price
    $10.00

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Presentations and discussions from a workshop focusing on issues pertaining to the use of science in EIA, including past and present problems and recommendations for improvements, in response to changes since the early 1990s in the Canadian EIA process.

About the authors

Eric Higgs is Director of the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Society for Ecological Restoration.

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Rick Riewe's research interests include human interactions with climate change in the Hudson Bay Region; impacts of northern development upon circumpolar peoples; wildlife ecology; boreal ecology; northern wildlife management; northern native harvesting and utilization of wildlife; northern land claims; environmental impact assessment; and the ecology of prairie grasslandsl; wildlife products utilized by Circumpolar Aboriginal peoples; the roles of aboriginal women in the domestic economy; and the ethnology of Circumpolar Peoples. He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the University of Manitoba.

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E. Fred Roots' profile page

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John McEwen's profile page

Biologist Valerius Geist is emeritus professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. The author of numerous books, including Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology and Buffalo Nation: History and Legend of the North American Bison, he first articulated The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation in 1995.

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