Looking Up, Down, and Sideways: Reconceiving Cumulative Effects Assessment as a Mindset

A John Sinclair, Meinhard Doelle, Peter N Duinker

April 14 2020

English

Canada

The purpose of the paper is to consider how we might reconceive CEA as a mindset that is at the heart of absolutely every assessment of valued ecosystem component (VEC) to ensure that we understand the relative contributions of various stressors and can decide when cumulative effects may foreclose future activities due to impacts on VECs. Conceptually, we ground the CEA mindset in the context of three lenses that must all be functioning and working together for the mindset to be operative: a technical lens; a law and policy lens; and a participatory lens.

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