An analysis of the state of impact assessment research for low carbon power production: Building a better understanding of information and knowledge gaps

Hanna, Kevin; McGuigan, Erin Kathleen; Noble, Bram; Parkins, John R.

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.017

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“…Assessment and permitting processes are needed for RE projects, but these processes may look different from those established under regulatory impact assessment for major mining or fossil fuel energy projects (Hanna et al, 2019). The challenge is to ensure sufficient regulatory controls for RE projects to mitigate potential adverse environmental impacts without introducing costly impact assessment processes that delay RE project approvals (McMaster et al, 2021).…”

Section: Safeguarding Ecologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Lim,

Poelzer,

Noble

2024

JAED

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Renewable energy (RE) is at the forefront of Canada’s strategy to achieve a net-zero electricity grid by 2035. The development of RE projects is also promoted as a means to deliver energy services in rural and remote Indigenous communities across the North. Although RE projects have the potential to contribute to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and economic reconciliation, the social value of RE to Indigenous communities is often overlooked and poorly understood. This article advances themes for understanding and approaching RE developments to better assess their social value. It does so based on the analysis of lessons from RE research in northern Canada and Alaska. We demonstrate that RE projects can create outcomes that are value generating or value eroding and that such outcomes are often couched in the context of supporting or detracting from self-determination. Techno-human variables, from community vision and capacity to policy environments and local RE ownership, serve to enable or inhibit the realization of value-generating outcomes from RE. Finally, we identify several pathways to creation from RE, including relationships and collaborative leadership, knowledge and skills-development, Indigenous-led policies that decrease energy bureaucracy and manage benefits distribution, and regulations and structures that safeguard ecologies.

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Section: Safeguarding Ecologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Lim,

Poelzer,

Noble

2024

JAED

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“…Knowledge-view advocates opine that lowcarbon knowledge is becoming a key resource and a major source of competitive advantage [23]. In an increasingly turbulent and complex market environment, a company's low-carbon competitive advantage depends not only on what it has but also what it knows [24].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Evaluation of Low-Carbon Competitiveness Based on a System Evaluation Method: A Case Study of Three Chinese Steel Companies

Jiang

Asante

Chen

et al. 2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Low-carbon competitiveness is an effective way for enterprises to remain relevant in the global green economy agenda. The low-carbon footprints of firms are not only reflected in their carbon-tangible assets but also in carbon-intangible assets. Thus, carbon-intangible assets also play a crucial role in firms’ emission mitigation and environmental conservation capacity. Several forms of carbon-intangible assets may constitute an integrated system that shapes the low-carbon performance of enterprises. Therefore, firms’ low-carbon competitiveness can be evaluated by studying the distribution of individual carbon-intangible resources and the composite shape of such assets. Based on this idea, this paper explored the dimensions through which carbon-intangible assets contribute to low-carbon competitiveness. By determining the location and distribution of each carbon-intangible asset in its value space, we proposed a multidimensional evaluation technique with three dimensions including realistic, sustainable, and inimitable value. Herein, the idea of value space of carbon-intangible assets has been contributed to the extant literature. Finally, to apply our evaluation index system, we selected three Chinese steel companies to serve as the research sample and evaluated their low-carbon performances. The main contribution of this study is the development and application of a novel multidimensional low-carbon evaluation method. This technique will not only help governments as well as the academics to effectively determine the low-carbon level of enterprises but also helps managers to fully grasp the trends of low-carbon competitiveness and thereby take some targeted measures to improve their firms’ performance.

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“…Equity principles include such factors as the distribution of the results of decision-making processes and procedural fairness, which means how different social groups are involved in decision-making processes. In response to this need, a number of international organizations have developed social impact assessment (SIA) procedures [51,52]. SIAs were first introduced in the US and then widely implemented in a number of other regions and countries with multilateral donor organizations such as the World Bank [53], which plays an important role in their implementation [54].…”

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Approaches to Assessing the Strategic Sustainability of High-Risk Offshore Oil and Gas Projects

Cherepovitsyn

Tsvetkova

Komendantova

2020

JMSE

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In the face of today’s global challenges, oil and gas companies must define long-term priorities and opportunities in implementing complex Arctic offshore projects, taking into account environmental, economic, technological and social aspects. In this regard, ensuring strategic sustainability is the basis for long-term development. The aim of the study is to analyze existing approaches to the concept of “strategic sustainability” of an offshore Arctic oil and gas project and to develop a methodological approach to assessing the strategic sustainability of offshore oil and gas projects. In the theoretical part of the study, the approaches to defining strategic sustainability were reviewed, and their classification was completed, and the most appropriate definition of strategic sustainability for an offshore oil and gas project was chosen. The method of hierarchy analysis was used for strategic sustainability assessment. Specific criteria have been proposed to reflect the technical, geological, investment, social and environmental characteristics important to the offshore oil and gas project. The strategic sustainability of 5 offshore oil and gas projects was analyzed using an expert survey as part of the hierarchy analysis method. Recommendations were made on the development of an offshore project management system to facilitate the emergence of new criteria and improve the quality of the strategic sustainability assessment of offshore projects in the Arctic.

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An analysis of the state of impact assessment research for low carbon power production: Building a better understanding of information and knowledge gaps

Cited by 19 publications

References 132 publications

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Social value of renewable energy in remote northern Indigenous communities

Evaluation of Low-Carbon Competitiveness Based on a System Evaluation Method: A Case Study of Three Chinese Steel Companies

Approaches to Assessing the Strategic Sustainability of High-Risk Offshore Oil and Gas Projects

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