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oapen-20.500.12657-576882022-08-02T02:59:43Z Integrated Environmental Modelling Framework for Cumulative Effects Assessment Gupta, Anil Farjad, Babak Wang, George Eum, Hyung Dubé, Monique Environmental problems anthropogenetic stressors natural stressors land use/land cover watershed surface water groundwater air quality atmospheric deposition acidification hydrology surface water interaction ground water interaction hydrodynamics water quality water allocation load allocation cumulative effects assessment environmental impact assessment environmental analysis environmental planning environmental model environmental modelling integrated model integrated modelling environmental modelling framework applied modelling applied modeling system climate change Athabasca Region Athabasca River bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TQ Environmental science, engineering & technology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RB Earth sciences::RBK Hydrology & the hydrosphere bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution & threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change Global warming and population growth have resulted in an increase in the intensity of natural and anthropogenic stressors. Investigating the complex nature of environmental problems requires the integration of different environmental processes across major components of the environment, including water, climate, ecology, air, and land. Cumulative effects assessment (CEA) not only includes analyzing and modeling environmental changes, but also supports planning alternatives that promote environmental monitoring and management. Disjointed and narrowly focused environmental management approaches have proved dissatisfactory. The adoption of integrated modelling approaches has sparked interests in the development of frameworks which may be used to investigate the processes of individual environmental component and the ways they interact with each other. Integrated modelling systems and frameworks are often the only way to take into account the important environmental processes and interactions, relevant spatial and temporal scales, and feedback mechanisms of complex systems for CEA. This book examines the ways in which interactions and relationships between environmental components are understood, paying special attention to climate, land, water quantity and quality, and both anthropogenic and natural stressors. It reviews modelling approaches for each component and reviews existing integrated modelling systems for CEA. Finally, it proposes an integrated modelling framework and provides perspectives on future research avenues for cumulative effects assessment. 2022-08-01T12:37:10Z 2022-08-01T12:37:10Z 2021 book ONIX_20220801_9781773851990_7 9781773851990 9781773851983 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57688 eng application/pdf n/a 9781773851990.pdf University of Calgary Press LCR Publishing Services 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781773851990 9781773851983 LCR Publishing Services 212 Calgary open access
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Global warming and population growth have resulted in an increase in the intensity of natural and anthropogenic stressors. Investigating the complex nature of environmental problems requires the integration of different environmental processes across major components of the environment, including water, climate, ecology, air, and land. Cumulative effects assessment (CEA) not only includes analyzing and modeling environmental changes, but also supports planning alternatives that promote environmental monitoring and management. Disjointed and narrowly focused environmental management approaches have proved dissatisfactory. The adoption of integrated modelling approaches has sparked interests in the development of frameworks which may be used to investigate the processes of individual environmental component and the ways they interact with each other. Integrated modelling systems and frameworks are often the only way to take into account the important environmental processes and interactions, relevant spatial and temporal scales, and feedback mechanisms of complex systems for CEA. This book examines the ways in which interactions and relationships between environmental components are understood, paying special attention to climate, land, water quantity and quality, and both anthropogenic and natural stressors. It reviews modelling approaches for each component and reviews existing integrated modelling systems for CEA. Finally, it proposes an integrated modelling framework and provides perspectives on future research avenues for cumulative effects assessment.
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