The Integration Imperative: Cumulative Environmental, Community, and Health Effects of Multiple Natural Resource Developments

Edited by Michael Gillingham, Greg Halseth, Chris Johnson, and Margot Parkes

Published by Springer in 2016

Integration Imperative Book

Description

The purpose of this book is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and conservation and natural resource professionals. There has been technical and policy research exploring how cumulative environmental impacts can be assessed and managed. These studies, however, have failed to consider the necessary integration of community, environment, and health. Informed by knowledge and experience in northern British Columbia, this book seeks to expand our understanding of the cumulative impacts of natural resource development through an integrated lens. The book offers a timely response to a growing imperative – proposing integrative response to multiple natural resource developments in a way that addresses converging environment, community, and health issues. Informed by the editors’ experiences across several complementary areas of expertise, this book will appeal to researchers, educators, and practitioners, with relevance to a growing audience with appetite for, and interest in, integrative approaches.

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