Environmental Management
Environmental management is the management of human activities and interactions with the environment. It attempts to integrate social, cultural and economic systems with the natural world (view interactive feature). Environmental management efforts vary in purpose, scale and methods, depending on the ecosystem and the human population in question.
Environmental management is complex and faces many challenges: competing interests among different groups who rely on natural resources, inappropriate policies and incentives, limited institutional capacity, and absence of alignment between ecological and administrative boundaries.
Environmental management is of particular importance in the oil sands region, where a great part of the province's wealth lies in its stock of natural resources—minerals, forests and fisheries—and where the groups who use these resources have differing priorities
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Regulatory Frameworks in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
A regulatory framework is a structure of regulations, authorizations, permits and approvals that govern a given development project or activity. Regulatory frameworks aim to manage the potential effects of development, to minimize undesirable outcomes, maximize positive benefits and to provide accountability to the public.
Development in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region is governed by environmental protection provisions of international treaties as UN , federal legislation, and provincial legislation.
Environmental management is the management of human activities and interactions with the environment. It attempts to integrate social, cultural and economic systems with the natural world (view interactive feature). Environmental management efforts vary in purpose, scale and methods, depending on the ecosystem and the human population in question.
Environmental management is complex and faces many challenges: competing interests among different groups who rely on natural resources, inappropriate policies and incentives, limited institutional capacity, and absence of alignment between ecological and administrative boundaries.
Environmental management is of particular importance in the oil sands region, where a great part of the province's wealth lies in its stock of natural resources—minerals, forests and fisheries—and where the groups who use these resources have differing priorities
.
Regulatory Frameworks in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
A regulatory framework is a structure of regulations, authorizations, permits and approvals that govern a given development project or activity. Regulatory frameworks aim to manage the potential effects of development, to minimize undesirable outcomes, maximize positive benefits and to provide accountability to the public.
Development in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region is governed by environmental protection provisions of international treaties as UN , federal legislation, and provincial legislation.