Robert B. Gibson

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine and elaborate on the central elements of sustainable development and governance, considering their interrelations as they have emerged from the core themes in sustainable development discourses over the past decade and a half.

TL;DR: The last few years have brought many experiments with forms of sustainability assessment, applied at the strategic and project levels by governments, private-sector firms, civil society organizatio... as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Sustainability is an essentially integrative concept and it seems reasonable to design sustainability assessment as an essentially integrated process and framework for decision-making on under-approximation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a tentative evaluation scheme for sustainability transitions is presented, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases.

TL;DR: The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012 as discussed by the authors eliminates the core of federal-level environmental assessment in Canada, and the residual potential for effective, efficient and fair assessments will depend heavily on requirements under other federal legislation and on the uneven diversity of provincial, territorial and Aboriginal assessment processes.