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Food Security Assessment: An Exploration of Canadian Offshore Petroleum SEA Practice

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  • Veronica Rohr

    (Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5C8, Canada)

  • Jill Blakley

    (Department of Geography and Planning and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Room #118, Kirk Hall, 117 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5C8, Canada)

  • Phil Loring

    (Geography, Environment, and Geomatics, Arrell Food Institute, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada NiG 2W1, Canada)

Abstract

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has the potential to play a crucial role in addressing global food insecurity. This paper presents the results of an evaluation of 17 recent Canadian SEAs, conducted for offshore petroleum exploration, exploring the extent of consideration for food security in current SEA practice. Document analysis was used to appraise consideration of eight core food security elements and conformity to procedural and analytical elements recommended for effective food security assessment in regional SEA. Performance variation among the SEAs in was observed. Notable deficiencies include lack of explicit consideration for food security and lack of transparency around public participation, as well as limited characterisations of the socio-political environment. Some encouraging findings, however, suggest that food security can be successfully addressed in regional SEA. In particular, the ‘system analysis’ approach typically employed in SEA in the offshore petroleum exploration industry is well-suited to food security assessment. Certain aspects of food security are already indirectly considered and incorporated in SEA; yet, there is considerable scope for improvement of integrating food security effectively in SEA.

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  • Veronica Rohr & Jill Blakley & Phil Loring, 2021. "Food Security Assessment: An Exploration of Canadian Offshore Petroleum SEA Practice," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(03n04), pages 1-35, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:23:y:2021:i:03n04:n:s1464333222500168
    DOI: 10.1142/S1464333222500168
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