ERS 415
Environmental and Sustainability Assessment 3
Winter 2021 · Environmental Assessment III: Advanced Environmental and Sustainability Assessment
Topics
- Advanced environmental and sustainability assessment
- Canadian impact assessment law
- Sustainability criteria
- Regional and strategic assessment
- Indigenous partnerships
- Assessment evaluation
Readings
- Gibson, R. B.; Sinclair, A. J.; Doelle, M. A next generation assessment framework for examining the IAA. In The New Canadian Federal Impact Assessment Act, chapter 2 (prepublication version, 2021).
- Canada. Impact Assessment Act (2019), as assigned in the Winter 2021 syllabus.
- Gibson, R. B. (2020). An initial evaluation of Canada’s new sustainability-based Impact Assessment Act. Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 33(1), 1–34.
- Gibson, R. B. et al. (2020). Synthesis at the nexus of sustainability assessment, regional/strategic assessment and Indigenous partnerships, pp. 12–29.
- Gibson, R. B. (2005). Sustainability Assessment: Criteria and Processes, chapter 5, pp. 88–121.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2021
- Archived syllabus. Selected assigned readings. Legal readings reflect the historical course and are not a statement of current law.