Workshop is offered In-Person only.

Registration opens at 12:30 PM

Cumulative effects management requires a shift from reactive, project-specific decision-making to an integrated and planning-based approach to setting and achieving long-term objectives that are meaningful in terms of the full range of land-use values. This requires environmental monitoring that is risk-based, focused, and designed to give decision makers timely and specific information. When cumulative effects are significant, environmental monitoring and management require careful planning and establishing a monitoring framework that clearly meets end-user needs.

Part One: Environmental Monitoring as Integrated Knowledge Translation

• What to monitor? Identifying key questions
• Indicator selection: understanding tradeoffs
• Governance

Part Two: Applying Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous Culture into Environmental Monitoring

This session will delve into how Indigenous communities define parameters and participate in operational decision making in the resource industry in Alberta, the Arctic and other areas in Canada.

• Examples of working with Indigenous Knowledge holders in collaborative ways through the impact assessment process