{"title":"Forum: cumulative effects assessment state-of-the-art","authors":"Jill Blakley, Bram Noble","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02281-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper reflects on the current state-of-the-art of cumulative effects assessment (CEA), monitoring and management, highlighting recent advances in regional science supportive of CEA practice, the expansion of practice to include non-regulatory regional-scale applications of CEA, and the uptake of CEA across diverse development sectors. We address how the role of CEA is rapidly evolving as an environmental justice tool, as a core component of environmental governance and planning, and as a means to protect Indigenous rights and territories. We also explore how the global shift to renewable energy sources and the related demand for critical minerals is a real and urgent opportunity to get CEA right.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"75 :","pages":"2855 - 2861"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Management","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-025-02281-4","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper reflects on the current state-of-the-art of cumulative effects assessment (CEA), monitoring and management, highlighting recent advances in regional science supportive of CEA practice, the expansion of practice to include non-regulatory regional-scale applications of CEA, and the uptake of CEA across diverse development sectors. We address how the role of CEA is rapidly evolving as an environmental justice tool, as a core component of environmental governance and planning, and as a means to protect Indigenous rights and territories. We also explore how the global shift to renewable energy sources and the related demand for critical minerals is a real and urgent opportunity to get CEA right.
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Environmental Management offers research and opinions on use and conservation of natural resources, protection of habitats and control of hazards, spanning the field of environmental management without regard to traditional disciplinary boundaries. The journal aims to improve communication, making ideas and results from any field available to practitioners from other backgrounds. Contributions are drawn from biology, botany, chemistry, climatology, ecology, ecological economics, environmental engineering, fisheries, environmental law, forest sciences, geosciences, information science, public affairs, public health, toxicology, zoology and more.
As the principal user of nature, humanity is responsible for ensuring that its environmental impacts are benign rather than catastrophic. Environmental Management presents the work of academic researchers and professionals outside universities, including those in business, government, research establishments, and public interest groups, presenting a wide spectrum of viewpoints and approaches.