Bram F Noble
Biographic Data
| ID | 1347549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bram F Noble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bram F |
| FAMILY NAME | Noble |
| SIGNATURE | NOBLE B F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Fragmentary provisions for uncertainty disclosure and consideration in EA legislation, regulations and guidelines and the need for improvement
Disparate perceptions about uncertainty consideration and disclosure practices in environmental assessment and opportunities for improvement
Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment
This paper examines the impact of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) – its direct impact on policies, plans and programs (PPPs) and its indirect and longer-term impacts. Criteria for assessing SEA's impact are developed and applied in the Canadian context based on a survey of SEA practitioners, and the perceived opportunities and challenges to realizing the full impact of SEA explored. Results indicate that SEA does have a direct impact on …
T oward cumulative effects assessment and management in the Athabasca watershed, Alberta, Canada
This article examines watershed cumulative effects assessment and management (CEAM) in the Athabasca watershed, Alberta, Canada. Using a focus group and semi‐structured interviews with 30 key informants from government, industry, NGOs, and First Nations, watershed CEAM was examined based on eight requisites to support CEAM: the presence of a lead agency; enabling legislation; financial and human resources; data management and coordination; multi‐…
Institutional considerations in watershed cumulative effects assessment and management
This paper examines the role of institutional arrangements as either facilitating or constraining the practice of watershed cumulative effects assessment and management (W-CEAM) within the context of the Grand River watershed (GRW), Canada. The research is based on document review, a focus group and 29 interviews conducted with academic experts, project proponents, government and watershed agencies representatives, non-governmental organization r…
Science requisites for cumulative effects assessment for wetlands
Wetland habitat continues to be lost to cumulative effects of development on the landscape. Part of the problem is that there currently exists only limited guidance as to how to use the existing scientific tools, conceptual frameworks and guidance documents to advance cumulative effects assessment (CEA) from the project scale to the broader regional scale at which land-use planning occurs. To strengthen CEA science for wetlands there are three mi…
Stakeholder Perceptions of Current Planning, Assessment and Science Initiatives in Canada’s Beaufort Sea
Over the past 30 years, the Beaufort Sea has been the site of many regional studies and planning efforts. Currently, three major initiatives are underway: the Integrated Regional Impact Study, which focuses on science; the Integrated Ocean Management Plan; and the Beaufort Regional Environmental Assessment. Despite the mounting pressures for offshore energy development in the region, little attention has been given to whether these initiatives fa…
Strategic environmental assessment for sustainability
Institutional requirements for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management
Survey of current methods and guidance for strategic environmental assessment
This paper examines methods promoted and used in strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice, practitioner choices about methodology and the nature of SEA guidance. Results show that SEA is not challenged by a lack of methods, but the range of methods promoted and used is restrictive. A major challenge to practice is making the ‘right choices’ about methods and methodology. Much SEA guidance is focused on flexibility in SEA, providing high-…
Bringing science into river systems cumulative effects assessment practice
Conceptual and methodological challenges to integrating SEA and cumulative effects assessment
Integrating Human Health into Environmental Impact Assessment
This paper examines the integration of human health considerations into environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the Canadian North. Emphasis is placed on the northern mining sector, where more land has been staked in the past decade than in the previous 50 years combined. Using information from interviews with northern EIA and health practitioners and reviews of selected project documents, we examined three principal mining case studies, norther…
A conceptual basis and methodological framework for regional strategic environmental assessment (R-SEA)
The need to better assess and manage the cumulative effects of human development is well recognized; however, the practice of cumulative effects assessment has been constrained by the current project-based approach. Further, the broader regional and strategic frameworks designed to ensure a more proactive and futures-oriented cumulative effects assessment have, ironically, remained divorced from current practice and from each other. In response, …
Following-up in strategic environmental assessment
The concept of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has received considerable attention in recent years; however, the focus has been on the pre-decision stages of policies, plans and programs with much less attention to post-decision follow-up and monitoring. In those instances where SEA follow-up has been addressed, it has been done so much more from a conceptual than a practical perspective. As a result, the principles and concept of SEA fo…
Promise and dismay
Health determinants in Canadian northern environmental impact assessment
The need to address the human health implications of northern development is well founded, and the role of health determinants in environmental impact assessment is increasingly recognised; however, there is limited understanding of the nature of health determinants and current practices in northern project assessment and decision making. This paper reports on a study of the nature and use of health determinants in Canadian northern environmental…
Strategic environmental assessment quality assurance
A state-of-practice survey of policy, plan, and program assessment in Canadian provinces
Strategic environmental assessment of Canadian energy policy
This paper presents a multi-criteria methodological framework for the application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA). The methodology, based on a generic seven phase assessment framework, is explained and demonstrated through a case study assessment of alternative options for Canadian energy policy. Five energy policy scenarios are presented and assessed by an expert panel on the basis of several environmental and socio-economic assessme…
The Canadian experience with SEA and sustainability
Strengthening EIA through adaptive management
Promise and dismay
Conceptual and methodological challenges to integrating SEA and cumulative effects assessment
The Canadian experience with SEA and sustainability
Disparate perceptions about uncertainty consideration and disclosure practices in environmental assessment and opportunities for improvement
Bringing science into river systems cumulative effects assessment practice
Strategic environmental assessment quality assurance
Strengthening EIA through adaptive management
Fragmentary provisions for uncertainty disclosure and consideration in EA legislation, regulations and guidelines and the need for improvement
Institutional requirements for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management
A state-of-practice survey of policy, plan, and program assessment in Canadian provinces
Health determinants in Canadian northern environmental impact assessment
The need to address the human health implications of northern development is well founded, and the role of health determinants in environmental impact assessment is increasingly recognised; however, there is limited understanding of the nature of health determinants and current practices in northern project assessment and decision making. This paper reports on a study of the nature and use of health determinants in Canadian northern environmental…
T oward cumulative effects assessment and management in the Athabasca watershed, Alberta, Canada
This article examines watershed cumulative effects assessment and management (CEAM) in the Athabasca watershed, Alberta, Canada. Using a focus group and semi‐structured interviews with 30 key informants from government, industry, NGOs, and First Nations, watershed CEAM was examined based on eight requisites to support CEAM: the presence of a lead agency; enabling legislation; financial and human resources; data management and coordination; multi‐…
Strengthening EIA through adaptive management
Strategic environmental assessment of Canadian energy policy
This paper presents a multi-criteria methodological framework for the application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA). The methodology, based on a generic seven phase assessment framework, is explained and demonstrated through a case study assessment of alternative options for Canadian energy policy. Five energy policy scenarios are presented and assessed by an expert panel on the basis of several environmental and socio-economic assessme…
The Canadian experience with SEA and sustainability
Strategic environmental assessment quality assurance
A state-of-practice survey of policy, plan, and program assessment in Canadian provinces
Health determinants in Canadian northern environmental impact assessment
The need to address the human health implications of northern development is well founded, and the role of health determinants in environmental impact assessment is increasingly recognised; however, there is limited understanding of the nature of health determinants and current practices in northern project assessment and decision making. This paper reports on a study of the nature and use of health determinants in Canadian northern environmental…
A conceptual basis and methodological framework for regional strategic environmental assessment (R-SEA)
The need to better assess and manage the cumulative effects of human development is well recognized; however, the practice of cumulative effects assessment has been constrained by the current project-based approach. Further, the broader regional and strategic frameworks designed to ensure a more proactive and futures-oriented cumulative effects assessment have, ironically, remained divorced from current practice and from each other. In response, …
Following-up in strategic environmental assessment
The concept of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has received considerable attention in recent years; however, the focus has been on the pre-decision stages of policies, plans and programs with much less attention to post-decision follow-up and monitoring. In those instances where SEA follow-up has been addressed, it has been done so much more from a conceptual than a practical perspective. As a result, the principles and concept of SEA fo…
Promise and dismay
Integrating Human Health into Environmental Impact Assessment
This paper examines the integration of human health considerations into environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the Canadian North. Emphasis is placed on the northern mining sector, where more land has been staked in the past decade than in the previous 50 years combined. Using information from interviews with northern EIA and health practitioners and reviews of selected project documents, we examined three principal mining case studies, norther…
Bringing science into river systems cumulative effects assessment practice
Conceptual and methodological challenges to integrating SEA and cumulative effects assessment
Survey of current methods and guidance for strategic environmental assessment
This paper examines methods promoted and used in strategic environmental assessment (SEA) practice, practitioner choices about methodology and the nature of SEA guidance. Results show that SEA is not challenged by a lack of methods, but the range of methods promoted and used is restrictive. A major challenge to practice is making the ‘right choices’ about methods and methodology. Much SEA guidance is focused on flexibility in SEA, providing high-…
Institutional considerations in watershed cumulative effects assessment and management
This paper examines the role of institutional arrangements as either facilitating or constraining the practice of watershed cumulative effects assessment and management (W-CEAM) within the context of the Grand River watershed (GRW), Canada. The research is based on document review, a focus group and 29 interviews conducted with academic experts, project proponents, government and watershed agencies representatives, non-governmental organization r…
Science requisites for cumulative effects assessment for wetlands
Wetland habitat continues to be lost to cumulative effects of development on the landscape. Part of the problem is that there currently exists only limited guidance as to how to use the existing scientific tools, conceptual frameworks and guidance documents to advance cumulative effects assessment (CEA) from the project scale to the broader regional scale at which land-use planning occurs. To strengthen CEA science for wetlands there are three mi…
Stakeholder Perceptions of Current Planning, Assessment and Science Initiatives in Canada’s Beaufort Sea
Over the past 30 years, the Beaufort Sea has been the site of many regional studies and planning efforts. Currently, three major initiatives are underway: the Integrated Regional Impact Study, which focuses on science; the Integrated Ocean Management Plan; and the Beaufort Regional Environmental Assessment. Despite the mounting pressures for offshore energy development in the region, little attention has been given to whether these initiatives fa…
Strategic environmental assessment for sustainability
Institutional requirements for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management
Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment
This paper examines the impact of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) – its direct impact on policies, plans and programs (PPPs) and its indirect and longer-term impacts. Criteria for assessing SEA's impact are developed and applied in the Canadian context based on a survey of SEA practitioners, and the perceived opportunities and challenges to realizing the full impact of SEA explored. Results indicate that SEA does have a direct impact on …
T oward cumulative effects assessment and management in the Athabasca watershed, Alberta, Canada
This article examines watershed cumulative effects assessment and management (CEAM) in the Athabasca watershed, Alberta, Canada. Using a focus group and semi‐structured interviews with 30 key informants from government, industry, NGOs, and First Nations, watershed CEAM was examined based on eight requisites to support CEAM: the presence of a lead agency; enabling legislation; financial and human resources; data management and coordination; multi‐…
Disparate perceptions about uncertainty consideration and disclosure practices in environmental assessment and opportunities for improvement
Fragmentary provisions for uncertainty disclosure and consideration in EA legislation, regulations and guidelines and the need for improvement
Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (21 works) · Environmental planning (20 works) · Environmental resource management (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Environmental Science (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Environmental impact assessment (13 works) · Mining and Resource Management (13 works)