Resource development and environmental stress: Environmental impact assessment and beyond in Australia and Canada |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China;2. Baotou Research Institute of Rare Earths, Baotou, 014030, China;3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China;4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China;5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore;6. Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise (SHARE), Nanomaterials for Energy and Energy-Water Nexus (NEW), Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), Singapore, 138602, Singapore;1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China;2. School of International Education, Hubei Polytechnic University, Huangshi, 435003, Hubei, China;1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S1A4;2. Intelligent Transport Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, P.O. Box 125, 1040 Heping Avenue, Wuhan 430063, PR China;3. Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, 15 Dineen Drive, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3 |
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| Abstract: | Australia and Canada are comparable in many respects, and their responses to environmental stresses arising from the development of resources are instructive. Australia's legislative adoption of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is both recent and incomplete. The more comprehensive Canadian experience with the technique suggests that EIA has many shortcomings as an environmental management tool. Moves to go beyond EIA in Australia, towards integrated, regional environmental planning and management, are compared with similar but more advanced developments in Canada. Canada also has a significantly greater commitment to public participation in environmental decision making than Australia. Public pressures are important determinants of the extent of commitment to environmental protection in the two countries. |
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