2013
DOI: 10.1890/es13-00181.1
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Assumptions, challenges, and future directions in cumulative impact analysis

Abstract: Abstract. Efforts to understand and map cumulative impacts of human activities on ecosystems have gained new interest and relevance as management moves towards ecosystem-based approaches that require such assessments. The last five years have seen a proliferation of efforts to characterize and map cumulative impacts, providing insight into the strengths and limitations of these efforts and where opportunities lie for progress. Here we provide a review of the key assumptions that underlie most cumulative impact… Show more

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“…Global datasets such as the cumulative marine pressure cannot capture every pressure or threat exhaustively (Halpern & Fujita 2013). Some areas identified as marine wilderness in our analysis may suffer from impacts such as chemical, plastic or sound pollution that are not represented in the dataset but may diminish their wilderness values, or disqualify them in whole or in part from consideration as wilderness.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Global datasets such as the cumulative marine pressure cannot capture every pressure or threat exhaustively (Halpern & Fujita 2013). Some areas identified as marine wilderness in our analysis may suffer from impacts such as chemical, plastic or sound pollution that are not represented in the dataset but may diminish their wilderness values, or disqualify them in whole or in part from consideration as wilderness.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Time is one of the less examined attributes of cumulative environmental change and is less considered in CEA in large part due to the shortfall of historical data that can be correlated with spatial data (Halpern and Fujita, 2013). Temporal accumulation refers to change brought about by disturbances or perturbations accumulating as the period between perturbations is shorter than the period of ecological recovery (Spaling & Smit, 1993).…”
Section: Cumulative Effects Assessmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…À l'instar de la planification systĂ©mique de la conservation (Margules et Pressey, 2000), la planification systĂ©mique de l'exploitation des ressources viserait Ă  suivre une dĂ©marche objective et proactive de gestion, basĂ©e sur des objectifs clairs et qui intĂšgre l'ensemble des activitĂ©s susceptibles d'affecter les ressources naturelles. L'accumulation des impacts imposĂ©s Ă  la structure et au fonctionnement des Ă©cosystĂšmes du Saint-Laurent demeure toutefois encore largement incomprise, comme ailleurs sur le monde (Halpern et collab., 2008b;Halpern et Fujita, 2013). Les Ă©valuations d'impacts environnementaux canadiennes sont ainsi encore aujourd'hui orientĂ©es sur des espĂšces ou des secteurs uniques et se concentrent davantage sur l'approbation de projets (DubĂ© et collab., 2006;Duinker et Greig, 2006;Crowder et Norse, 2008).…”
Section: O N S E R V a T I O N / D Ă© V E L O P P E M E N T D U R A unclassified
“…La chute des poissons dĂ©mersaux du Saint-Laurent a ainsi entraĂźnĂ© des cascades trophiques dans le golfe (Frank et collab., 2005). Les effets non linĂ©aires pressentis demeurent toutefois inconnus (deYoung et collab., 2008;Halpern et Fujita, 2013;CĂŽtĂ© et collab., 2016). Ces derniers sont ainsi largement ignorĂ©s dans le cadre d'Ă©valuations d'impacts cumulĂ©s, qui assument gĂ©nĂ©ralement une relation linĂ©aire additive entre le nombre de stresseurs et les impacts totaux observĂ©s (Halpern et collab., 2008b).…”
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