"Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly...

Introduction: the economy and the environment -- Changing perspectives on the environment -- Resources, environment, and economic development -- Economic analysis of environmental issues -- The theory of environmental externalities -- Common property resources and public goods -- Resource...

Aims and objectives of environmental impact assessment -- An overview of environmental impact assessment in Canada -- Tools supporting EIA practice -- Screening procedures -- Scoping and environmental baseline assessments -- Prediciting environmental impacts -- Managing project impacts --...