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Advancing Impact Assessment for Canada's Socio-Ecological Systems
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SSHRC Awarded PDG 2020: Impact assessments (IA) are a crucial tool in the management of disruptions to our climate, ecosystems and communities generated by economic development. Given the growing concerns about the sustainability of socio-ecological systems in Canada and globally, IAs are rightly high on Canada's political agenda today. But even after decades of concerted efforts to improve IA policy and practice, concerns about the adequacy of IAs are more intense than ever. Across the country, in our Indigenous communities, government ministries, company board rooms, and citizens' groups, expanding conversations are underway about what is meant by "impact," how we should "assess" it, who should do so, and to what ends? This partnership project will bring more prominently into the centre of this conversation the much needed and hitherto largely absent voices representing Canada's social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines. Our goal is to build the Virtual Network of IA Expertise and Dialogue, a pan Canadian research community of SSH scholars to explore new paths for IA, incorporating interdisciplinary research on coupled socio-ecological systems, deliberative democracy, environmental justice, and sustainable natural resource development.
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- 2019-11-23
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- Research Material
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- © Davidson, Debra. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025.