Workshops

Cumulative Effects and Health and Productive Aquatic Ecosystems (Workshop-Part 1)

Moderator: Larry Canter, Bill Ross, Barry Sadler

Participants in this Workshop will discuss the results of Thursday’s DFO-sponsored theme forum on contributing to healthy and productive ecosystems and make recommendations on short- and long-term actions required to advance priority issues. Participants will develop a set of regulations required to improve the assessment and management of cumulative effects. Part one of the Workshop sets the stage for the Workshop, including keynote presentations and explanation of the Workshop and format of the breakout groups.

Cumulative Effects and Health and Productive Aquatic Ecosystems (Workshop-Part 2)

Moderator: DFO-Sponsored Workshop | Facilitators Larry Canter, Bill Ross, Barry Sadler

Participants in this Workshop will discuss the results of Thursday’s DFO-sponsored theme forum and make recommendations on short- and long-term actions required to advance priority issues. Participants will develop a set of regulations required to improve the assessment and management of cumulative effects. Part two of the Workshop consists of breakout sessions to discuss a set of questions around the objectives and provide feedback and recommendations.

Cumulative Effects and Health and Productive Aquatic Ecosystems (Workshop-Part 3)

Moderator: Larry Canter, Bill Ross, Barry Sadler

Participants in this Workshop will discuss the results of Thursday’s DFO-sponsored theme forum on contributing to health and productive ecosystems and make recommendations on short- and long-term actions required to advance priority issues. Participants will develop a set of regulations required to improve the assessment and management of cumulative effects. Part three of the Workshop continues discussion around the objectives with feedback and recommendations.

Presentations

CEA Toolkit 2: Use of GIS

Presenter(s): Sam Atkinson

Multiple Uses of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in CEA

Presenter(s): Sam Atkinson, Larry Canter

Due to spatial and temporal considerations in CEA, GIS can be a useful tool within such studies. The uses can range from addressing temporal land use changes to describing declines or recoveries of habitat types in the study area. GIS information can also be used in predictive modeling of historical, current, and future cumulative effects. Further, such GIS information can be used in planning local mitigation and regional management programs. Case studies illustrating these uses will be described.

CEA GIS Tool for Managing Scoping Processes in Public Institutions

Presenter(s): Giuseppe Magro, Cesare Bertocchi, Anna Gozzi

The paper is on a relevant institutional case study of supporting CEA analysis and evaluation into new public authorization procedure. An important Italian Province for waste plants and dredging facilities improved an innovative and integrated software system assessing cumulative impacts of new authorizations. It is a GIS-based tool calculating cumulative impacts considering size, stressor frame typology, environmental vulnerability frame of each new potential development and produces cumulative indexes by which is possible to plan site specific mitigation and compensation actions.

CEA-GIS Based Automatic Tool for Selection of Gas Pipeline Corridors

Presenter(s): Denise Ferreira de Matos, Paulo Cesar Pires Menezes, Cristiane Barbosa Cruz, Katia Cristina Garcia, Jorge Machado Damazio, Alexandre Mollica Medeiros

This paper describes a CEA-GIS based automatic tool for construction of cost-distance grids to help the selection of alternative corridors for gas pipelines planning expansion. The tool, constructed with spatial analysis functions, is based in a theoretical methodology that evaluates and selects the corridor alternatives that present, at the same time, the minimum cumulative environmental impacts, and social-economic or constructive issues, thereby contributing to the decision-making process.

An Operative GIS-Based Methodology for Quantifying Impacts of Past, Present and Future Cumulative Actions of Projects

Presenter(s): Giuseppe Magro, Stefania Pellegrini, Federico Pelizzari

A general operative and systematic framework assessing different cumulative impacts of actions is the main topic of this work.The methodology considers past, present and future impacts in a quantitative way. Each stressor element is here characterized by dynamic space-time indicators driven from physical based models and a computational GIS tool produces cumulative impact matrixes for specific stressor-vulnerability interaction.The methodology is relevant for CEA characterized by heterogeneous and multiple stressor acting on critical and impacted areas.

Cumulative Effects and Health and Productive Aquatic Ecosystems (Workshop-Part 4)

Moderator: Larry Canter, Bill Ross, Barry Sadler

Participants in this Workshop will discuss the results of Thursday’s DFO-sponsored theme forum on contributing to healthy and productive ecosystems and make recommendations on short- and long-term actions required to advance priority issues. Participants will develop a set of regulations required to improve the assessment and management of cumulative effects. Part four of the Workshop is a wrap-up plenary to report on the results of the breakout sessions and concluding remarks.

 
The Future Directions of Cumulative Effects: Making It Happen (Part 1)

Moderator: Doug Marteinson, Joseph Wells, Miles Scott-Brown

This theme forum Workshop will be characterized by high participation, collaborative dialogue and strategic networking. It aims to maximize conference integration and synthesis and will be of particular interest to CEAM practitioners who want to discuss innovative but practical ways forward. The Workshop will utilize Open Space Technology, a format that draws on the wisdom in the room and gives all participants the opportunity to put their most burning issue respecting cumulative effects on the table. Participation will be limited to 40 people (see sign-up sheet posted on the message board).

This Workshop will focus on such questions as:

  • How can we best apply our EIA and SEA tools to cumulative effects management?
  • What changes are needed to make the current regulatory approach to cumulative effects management more effective?
  • How will we bring all parties to the table and develop collaborative approaches to the management of cumulative effects?
  • What specific tools, management frameworks, or thresholds for growth make sense for cumulative effects management?
  • How can we effectively communicate these issues to stakeholders and the public at large?
  • What challenges must we overcome now and in the future?

Through discussion and peer dialogue, participants may uncover breakthroughs on cumulative effects topics. The format enables integration and learning across science, institutions, operational practice, sectors and systems. Informal communities of practice may develop and expanded opportunities for continued online dialogue may emerge.

While the forum begins and ends with this large group, it will break into numerous concurrent discussion groups through the day. Key points from each discussion group will be captured, entered into computers and made available to all Workshop participants on the morning of the conference on Day 4.