2025

Armagan H, Biswas S, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2025. Social costs of coping with energy insecurity at Deschambault Lake, Saskatchewan: a community resilience perspective. Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2025.2570868

Blakely J, Noble BF. 2025 Forum: Cumulative effects assessment state-of-the-art. Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02281-4

Asante S, *Islam D, Shah T, Dorion D, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Calvert C, Jahns R, Farag O. 2025. Community-appropriate bioresource potential assessment in Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan. The Canadian Geographer 69(3). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cag.70018 

Garbellini G, Westbrook CJ, Noble BF. 2025.  Analysis of EA as an instrument for wetland protection: insights from the mining sector in western and northern Canada. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2025.2460316 

Noble BF, Kanu V. 2025. Establishing and operationalizing thresholds in proponent-led adaptive management plans. Research report 359018, University of Saskatchewan. Prepared for the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.

Robb K, Fitzpatrick P, Diduck A, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2025. Understanding opportunities for meaningful engagement in water power licensing. Canadian Public Policy 51(1): https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2024-001 

Ekanem M, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2025. The effects of institutional layering on electricity sector reform: Lessons from Norway's electricity sector. Energy Research and Social Science 119: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103864

2024

Ekanem M, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2024. Understanding institutional layers and modes of change for energy transitions: Analysis of Norway’s electricity sector reforms. Scandinavian Journal of Political Studies. http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12267 

Hu B, Gong Y, Liang X, Chung CY, Noble B, Poelzer G. 2024. Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Real-Time Multi-Energy Management in Combined Heat and Power Microgrids. IEEE Access 12: 193581-193593 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3520357

Lim B, Poelzer G, Noble BF. 2024. Social value of renewable energy in remote, northern, Indigenous communities. Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development.  Accepted for publication. https://doi.org/10.29173/jaed8 

McMaster R, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2024. Assessing local capacity for community appropriate sustainable energy transitions in northern and remote Indigenous communities. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114232 

Ahmed F, Poelzer G, Noble BF. 2024 Meaningful participation and energy transitions in the North (Chapter 13). In Van Nijnatten et al.  (Eds.) Canadian Environmental Politics and Policy (5th edition). Oxford University Press. 

Jaradat A, Noble BF, Poelzer G. Youth as energy citizens or passive actors? A critical review of energy transition scholarship. Energy Research and Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103405 

2023

Noble BF 2023. EA simplification: Canadian processes and challenges. Impact Assess Proj Apprais, 41(3): 202-214. doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2175503 

Poelzer G, Frimpong R, Poelzer GM, Noble BF. 2023. Community as governor: Exploring the role of community between industry and government in SLO. Environ Manage 72: 70-83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01681-0 

Menghwani V, Wheat R, Balicki B, Poelzer G, Noble B, Mansuy N. 2023. Bioenergy for community energy security in Canada. Energies, 16(4): doi.org/10.3390/en16041560 

McMaster R, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Menghwani V. 2023. Local capacity for energy transition in northern and Indigenous communities: Analysis of Gwich’in communities in Northwest. Arctic. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic77183 

Leonhardt R, Noble B, Poelzer G, Belcher K, Fitzpatrick P. 2023 Government instruments for community renewable energy in northern and Indigenous communities. Energy Policy, 117: doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113560 

Patterson, C., Torres, A., Coroi, M., Cumming, K., Hanson, M., Noble, B.F., Tabor, G.M., Treweek, J., Iglesias-Merchan, C., Jaeger, J.A.G. 2023. Pathways for improving the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: Lessons from five case studies. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2246727 

Brown C., Noble BF, Munkittrick. K. 2023. Examination of recent hydroelectric dam projects in Canada for alignment of baseline studies, predictive modelling, and post-development monitoring phases of aquatic environmental impact assessment. Integrate Environ Assess Manage. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4823. 

2022

Noble BF. 2022. Cumulative effects assessment. In Hanna K (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. Routledge.

Arnold L, Hanna K, Noble BF, Nikolakis W, Gergel S. 2022. Capacity Needs for Assessing Cumulative Social Effects of Projects. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2022.2112812 

Arnold L, Buse C, Friberg R, Noble B, Hanna K. 2022. Regional assessment. In K. Hanna (Ed) Routledge Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. Routledge

Holdmann G, Pride D, Poelzer G, Noble BF, Walker C. 2022. Critical pathways to renewable energy in remote communities: A comparative analysis of renewable energy transitions in remote Alaskan communities. Energy Research and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102712

Jackson S, Poelzer GA, Poelzer GM, Noble BF. 2022. Mining and Sustainability in the Circumpolar North: The Role of Government in Advancing Corporate Social Responsibility. Environmental Management Ihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01680-1

Leonhardt R, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Belcher K, Fitzpatrick P, Holdmann G. 2022. Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy. Energy Research and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102350 

Martins C, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Hanna K. 2022.  Impact assessment for renewable energy development: analysis of impacts and mitigation practices for wind energy in western Canada. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2022.2139468 

Menghwani V, Walker C, Kalke T, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2022. Harvesting local energy: A case study of community-led bioenergy development from Galena, Alaska Energies. Invited, special issue on Bio-energy. 15(13), 4655; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15134655 

Nwanakezie K, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2022. Strategic environmental assessment for energy transitions:  a case study of renewable energy development in Saskatchewan, Canada. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106688 

Patterson C, Torres A, Coroi M, Coming C, Hanson M, Noble BF, Taylor G, Jaeger J. 2022 Treatment of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: A global survey of current practice and common issues. Impact Assessment & Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2022.2099728

Peletz N., Hanna K., Noble BF. 2022.  “It would be a lot easier to hunt whales if they didn’t move.” Addressing marine baseline information challenges in Nunavut’s impact assessment process. Polar Record.  Accepted for publication: in press.

Poelzer G, Frimpong R, Poelzer GM, Noble BF. 2022. Community as governor: Exploring the role of community between industry and government in SLO. Environmental Management. Special Issue (Invited) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01681-0  

Thiessen B, Noble BF, Hanna K. 2022. Enabling conditions and challenges to environmental assessment as a tool for knowledge brokerage: Lessons from Nunavut. Polar Geography. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2022.2032859.

Walker C, Poelzer G, Leonhardt R, Noble B, Hoicka C. 2022. COPs and ‘Robbers?’ A comparative review of Community Energy development through Communities of Place and Communities of Interest. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102797 

2021

Blakley J, Noble B, MacLean J. 2021. The scope and focus of cumulative effects and regional assessment. In Doelle M, Sinclair J (Eds.) The New Canadian Federal Impact Assessment Act. Irwin.

Dutta N, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Hanna K. 2021. From project impacts to strategic decisions: recurring issues and concerns in wind energy environmental assessment. Environmental Management https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01518-2 

Hu B, Gong Y, Chung CY, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2021 Price-maker bidding and offering strategies for networked microgrids in day-ahead electricity markets. IEE Transactions on Smart Grid https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9525463 

MacLean J, Noble B, Blakley J. 2021. Strategic and regional environmental assessments.  In Doelle M, Sinclair J (Eds.) The New Canadian Federal Impact Assessment Act. Irwin.

Nijhum F,  Westbrook C, Noble BF, Belcher K, Lloyd-Smith P.  2021. Evaluation of alternative land-use scenarios using an ecosystem services-based strategic environmental assessment approach. Land Use Policy, 108: 105540. 

Noble BF. 2021. Strategic environmental assessment in Canada. In Fischer T, Gonzalez A. (Ed.), Handbook on Strategic environmental Assessment. London: : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Noble BF, Blakley J. 2021. Assessing cumulative effects in strategic and regional-scale assessment. In Blakley J,  Franks D (Eds.) Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment. Edward Elgar Publishing UK

Noble BF, Hanna K. 2021. Cumulative impact monitoring: Improving practices for informed decisions. NWT Environmental Research Bulletin 5(19): https://www.enr.gov.nt.ca/en/services/nwt-cumulative-impact-monitoring-program-nwt-cimp/nwt-environmental-research-bulletin 

Nwanekezie K, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2021. Transitions-based strategic environmental assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106643 

2020

McMaster R, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Hanna K. 2020. Wind energy environmental assessment requirements and processes: an uneven landscape. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2020.1815271 

Peletz N, Hanna K, Noble BF. 2020. The central role of Inuit Qaujimaningit in Nunavut’s impact assessment process.  Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2020.1786763 

Thiessen B, Noble BF, Hanna K. 2020. Analysis of impact assessment practice and mitigation for shipping activity in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Arctic, 73(2): https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic70471 

Noble BF. 2020. The relationship between Indigenous-industry agreements and environmental assessment: Enhanced credibility and collaboration, or undermining the project review process?. In Odumosu-Ayanu I, Newman D. (Ed.), Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources, and the Law. New York: Routledge.

2019

Noble BF. 2019. Transforming IA from the outside in: Capacity and levers for strategic assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2019.1664811 

Wong L, Noble BF, Hanna K. 2019. Water quality monitoring to support cumulative effects assessment and decision-making in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada. Integrated Environmental Assessment & Management 15(6): 988-999. 

Morrison A, Noble BF, Westbrook CJ. 2019. Flood risk management in Canada’s Prairie provinces: An analysis of decision-maker priorities and policy preferences. Environmental Management 64(5): 608-625 

Bradford L, Thapa A, Duffy A, Hassanzadeh E, Strickert G, Noble BF, Lindenschmidt K-L. 2019. Incorporating social dimensions in hydrological and water-quality modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of agricultural beneficial management practices in a Prairie river basin. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-06325-1)   

Arnold L, Hanna K, Noble B. 2019. Freshwater cumulative effects and environmental assessment in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories: challenges and decision-maker needs. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2019.1596596

Noble BF, Gibson R, White L, Blakley J, Nwanekezie K, Croal P. 2019. Effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment in Canada under directive-based and informal practice. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2019.1565708 Special issue – invited paper.

Hanna K, McGuigan E, Noble BF, Parkins J. 2019. An analysis of the state of impact assessment research for low carbon power production: what do we really know? Energy Research and Social Science 50: 116-128.

Hassanzadeh E, Strickert G, Morales-Marin L, Noble BF, Baulch H, Shupena-Soulodre E, Lindenschmidt K. 2019. A framework for engaging stakeholders in water quality modeling and management: Application to the Qu'Appelle River Basin, Canada. Journal of Environmental Management 231: 1117-1126.

2018

Crowley C, Blakley J, Jaeger J, Noble BF, Westman C. 2018. Improving uncertainty disclosure and communication in environmental assessment: Lessons from an energy development case in northern Alberta. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. In press. doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2019.1579973

Hansen AM, Larsen SV, Noble BF. 2018. Social and environmental impact assessments in the Arctic. In M Nuttall et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions. Routledge 

Luke L, Noble BF. 2018. Consideration of climate change in environmental assessment (EA): An analysis of the liquefied natural gas sector, British Columbia. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2018.1533515

Noble BF, Hanna K, Blakley J. 2018. Northern environmental assessment. In Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic. C Southcott et al. (eds.). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351019101 

Dibo A, Noble BF, Sanchez L. 2018. Perspectives on driving changes in project-based cumulative effects assessment for biodiversity: lessons from the Canadian experience. Environmental Management. 62(5):929-941

Morrison A, Noble BF, Westbrook CJ. 2018. Flood risk management in the Canadian Prairie provinces: Defaulting toward flood resistance and recovery versus resilience. Canadian Water Resources Journal 43(1): 33-46

Noble BF. 2018. Uncertainty in environmental impact assessment: out of sight, out of mind? Guest Statement, in Resource and Environmental Management, 3rd edition. B. Mitchell (ed.) Oxford University Press 

Hackett P, Liu J, Noble BF. 2018. Human health, development legacies, and cumulative effects: Environmental assessments of hydroelectric projects in the Nelson River watershed, Canada. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2018.1487504

Cronmiller J, Noble BF. 2018. The discontinuity of cumulative effects monitoring in the Lower Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada: Institutional challenges to long-term monitoring and cumulative effects management. Environmental Reviews 26(2): 169-180

Cronmiller J, Noble BF. 2018. Integrating environmental monitoring with cumulative effects management and decision making. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 14(3): 407-417.

2017

Pavlyuk O, Noble BF, Blakley J, Jaeger J. 2017. Fragmentary provisions for uncertainty disclosure and consideration in EA legislation, regulations and guidelines and the need for improvement. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 66: 14-23

Noble BF. 2017. Environmental assessment. In Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental Science. E. Whol (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 21 pgs 

Morrison A, Westbrook CJ, Noble BF. 2017. A review of the flood risk management governance and resilience literature. Journal of Flood Risk Management doi:10.1111/jfr3.12315

Chilima J, Gunn J, Noble BF, Patrick R. 2017. Institutional arrangements for assessing and managing cumulative effects to watersheds:  Lessons from the Grand River watershed, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal – in press: doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2017.1292151

Noble BF, Liu G, Hackett P. 2017. The contribution of project environmental assessment to assessing and managing cumulative effects: individually and collectively insignificant? Environmental Management 59(4): 531-545

Udofia A, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2017. Meaningful and efficient? Exploring the challenges to Aboriginal participation in environmental impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 65: 164-174  doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2016.04.008.

2016

Ridsdale R, Noble BF. 2016. Assessing sustainable remediation frameworks using sustainability principles. Journal of Environmental Management 184: 36-44

Udofia A, Noble, BF, Poelzer G. 2016. Aboriginal Participation in Canadian Environmental Assessment: Gap Analysis and Directions for Scholarly Research. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 18(3): doi/abs/10.1142/S1464333216500204

Noble B, Nwanekezie K. 2016. Conceptualizing strategic environmental assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.03.005. Invited paper, special issue on conceptualizing impact assessment.

Westbrook CJ, Noble BF.  2016. Environmental assessment in Saskatchewan. In K Hanna (Ed.) Environmental Assessment: Practice and Participation. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 340-353 

Noble BF, Gunn J. 2016. Strategic environmental assessment. In K Hanna (Ed.) Environmental Assessment: Practice and Participation. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp 96-121.

Fidler C, Noble BF. 2016. Advancing regional strategic environmental assessment in Canada’s western Arctic: Implementation opportunities and challenges. In Fischer T (Ed.) Progress in Environmental Assessment Policy, and Management Theory and Practice. London: Imperial College Press, p 211-239. [This chapter is journal article reprint [Fidler and Noble 2013] adapted for book publication by the same publisher]  

Leung W, Noble B, Jaeger J, Gunn J. 2016. Disparate perceptions about uncertainty consideration and disclosure practices in environmental assessment and opportunities for improvement. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 57: 89-100.

Sizo A, Noble BF, Bell S. 2016. Connecting the strategic to the tactical in SEA design: an approach to wetland conservation policy development and implementation in an urban context. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 34(1): 44-54.

Lees J, Jaeger J, Gunn J, Noble BF. 2016. Analysis of uncertainty consideration in environmental assessment: an empirical study of Canadian EA practice. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management DOI:10.1080/09640568.2015.1116980 (21 pgs.)

2015

Sizo A, Noble BF, Bell S. 2015. Strategic environmental assessment framework for landscape-based, temporal analysis of wetland change in urban environments. Environmental Management 57(3): 696-710.

Noble BF. 2015. Cumulative effects research: Achievements, status, directions and challenges in the Canadian context. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 17(1): 7 pgs DOI: 10.1142/S1464333215500015

Parkins J, Bullock R, Noble BF, Reed M. 2015. Forests and communities on the fringe: An overview of community forestry in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In S Teitelbaum (Ed.) Community Forestry in Canada: Lessons from Policy and Practice. Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 90-102 

Gunn J, Noble BF. 2015. Sustainability considerations in regional environmental assessment. In A Morrison-Saunders, J Pope, A Bond (Eds.) Sustainability Assessment Handbook. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 79-102 

Noble BF 2015. Scoping out potentially significant impacts: Constraints of current regulatory-based cumulative effects assessment. In M Gillingham, C Johnson, M Parkes, G Halseth (Eds.) The Integration Imperative: Addressing the Cumulative Environmental, Community and Health Effects of Multiple Natural Resource Developments. New York, NY: Springer, pp. 176-181 

Fischer T, Noble BF. 2015. Impact assessment research: Achievements, gaps and future directions. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 17(1): 12 pgs DOI: 10.1142/S1464333215010012

Noble BF, Basnet P. 2015. Capacity for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management in the South Saskatchewan Watershed, Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal 40(2): 187-203

Udofia A, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2015. Community engagement in environmental assessment for resource development: benefits, enduring concerns, opportunities for improvement. Northern Review 39: 98-110 [Invited paper]

Noble BF. 2015. Adaptive environmental management. In B Mitchell (ed) Resource and Environmental Management in Canada, 5th edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 87-111 

Noble BF, Hanna K. 2015. Arctic environmental assessment: A gap analysis and research agenda. Arctic 68(3): 15pgs

Hanna K, Noble BF. 2015 Using a Delphi study to identify effectiveness criteria for impact assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 33(2): 116-125.

Sizo A, Noble BF, Bell S. 2015. Futures analysis of urban land use and wetland change in Saskatoon, Canada: An application in strategic environmental assessment. Sustainability. doi:10.3390/su60x000x

Leung W, Noble BF, Gunn K, Jaeger J. 2015. A review of uncertainty research in impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 50:116-123.

Pre-2015

Noble BF, Skwaruk J, Patrick R. 2014 Toward cumulative effects assessment and management in the Athabasca watershed, Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Geographer doi: 10.111/cag.12063.

Acharibasam JB, Noble BF. 2014.  Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 32(3): 177-187.

Dube M, Duinker P, Greig L, Carver M, Servos M, McMaster M, Noble BF, Schreier H, Jackson L, Munkittrick K 2013. A framework for assessing cumulative effects in watersheds: an introduction to Canadian case studies. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 9(3): 363-369.

Westbrook CJ, Noble BF. 2013 Science requisites for cumulative effects assessment for wetlands. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 31(4): 318-323.

Richards G, Belcher K, Noble BF. 2013 Informational barriers to effective public policy communication: A case study of wind energy planning in Saskatchewan, Canada. Canadian Public Policy 39(3): 431-450.

Fidler C, Noble BF. 2013. Advancing regional strategic environmental assessment in Canada’s western Arctic: Implementation opportunities and challenges. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 15(1): 27pgs. Doi: 10.1142/S1464333213500075.

Noble BF, Ketilson S, Aitken A, Poelzer G. 2013. Strategic environmental assessment opportunities and risks for Arctic offshore energy planning and development. Marine Policy 39: 296-302.

White L, Noble BF. 2013 Strategic environmental assessment for sustainability: A review of a decade of academic research. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 42: 60-66.

Fidler C, Noble BF. 2013. Stakeholder perceptions of current planning, assessment and science initiatives in Canada’s Beaufort Sea. Arctic 66(2): 179-190.

White L, Noble BF. 2013 Strategic environmental assessment best practice process elements and outcomes in the international electricity sector. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 15(2): DOI: 10.1142/S1464333213400012.

Chilima J, Gunn J, Noble BF, Patrick R. 2013 Institutional Considerations in Watershed-Scale Cumulative Effects Assessment Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. Special Issue on Governance 31(1): 74-84.

Fidler C, Noble BF. 2013. Advancing regional strategic environmental assessment in Canada’s western Arctic: Implementation opportunities and challenges. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management. 15(1): 10.1142/S1464333213500075. 

Kristensen S, Noble BF, Patrick RJ. 2013. Capacity for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management: lessons from the Lower Fraser River Basin, Canada. Environmental Management 52(2): 360-373.

Sheelanere P, Noble BF, Patrick R. 2013. Institutional requirements for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management: lessons from a Canadian trans-boundary watershed. Land Use Policy 30: 67-75.

Ball M, Noble BF, Dube M. 2013. Valued ecosystem components for watershed cumulative effects: an analysis of environmental impact assessments in the South Saskatchewan watershed, Canada. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 9(3): 469-479.

White L, Noble BF. 2012. Strategic environmental assessment in the electricity sector: an application to electricity supply planning, Saskatchewan, Canada. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 30(4): 284-295.

Noble BF. 2012. Cumulative environmental effects: thinking beyond the project in environmental assessment. Guest Statement, in P. Dearden and B. Mitchell Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, 4th  Edition. Oxford University Press 

Noble BF, Gunn J, Martin J. 2012. Survey of current methods and guidance for strategic environmental assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 30(3): 139-147.

Nielsen J, Noble BF, Hill M. 2012. Impact assessment and wetland mitigation decision support framework for linear developments: an application to the Louis Riel Trail Highway 11 North project, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Canadian Geographer 56(1): 117-139.

Fidler C, Noble BF. 2012. Advancing strategic environmental assessment in the offshore oil and gas sector: Lessons from Norway, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 34: 12-21.

Richards GW, Noble BF, Belcher K. 2012. Barriers to renewable energy development: a case study of large-scale wind energy in Saskatchewan, Canada. Energy Policy 42: 691-698.

Noble BF, Sheelanere P, Patrick R. 2011. Challenges and opportunities for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management: Lessons from the South Saskatchewan River watershed, Canada. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 13(4): 567-590.

Noble BF, Hill M, Neilsen, J. 2011 Environmental assessment framework for identifying and mitigating the effects of linear development to wetlands. Landscape and Urban Planning 99: 133-140.

Hanna K, Noble BF. 2011. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry:  Promise and Reality. UVP-report (Journal of the German EIA/SEA Association) 25(4): 222-225.

Noble BF. 2011. Environmental Impact Assessment. In: eLS 2011, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester http://www.els.net/ [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003253.pub2] 

Nasen L, Noble BF, Johnstone J. 2011. Environmental effects assessment of oil and gas lease sites on a grassland ecosystem. Journal of Environmental Management 92: 195-204.

Seitz NE, Westbrook CJ, Noble BF. 2011. Bringing science into river systems cumulative effects assessment practice. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 31: 180-186.

Noble BF, Birk J. 2011. Comfort monitoring? Environmental assessment follow-up under community-industry negotiated environmental agreements. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 31(1): 17-24.

Gunn J, Noble BF. 2011. Conceptual and Methodological Challenges to Integrating SEA and Cumulative Effects Assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 31: 154-160.

Noble BF, Fidler C. 2011. Advancing Indigenous Community - Corporate Agreements: Lessons from Practice in the Canadian Mining Sector. Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence 9(4): 1-30.

Noble BF, Gunn J. 2010. Regional strategic environmental assessment for integrated land management. Horizons, 10(4): 106-112 (Invited paper, special 10th anniversary issue on Sustainable Places).

Noble BF. 2010. Applying Adaptive Environmental Management. In B. Mitchell (ed.), Resource and Environmental Management in Canada: Addressing Conflict and Uncertainty 4th Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press 

Harriman Gunn J, Noble BF. 2009. A conceptual and methodological framework for regional strategic environmental assessment (RSEA). Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 27(4): 258-270.

Harriman Gunn J, Noble BF. 2009. Integrating cumulative effects in regional strategic environmental assessment frameworks: Lessons from practice. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy & Management 11(3): 267-290.

Noble BF. 2009. Promise and dismay: The state of strategic environmental assessment systems and practices in Canada. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 29(1): 66-75.

Noble BF, Harriman Gunn J. 2009. Strategic Environmental Assessment, in K. Hanna (ed.) Environmental Impact Assessment: Practice and Participation 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. 

Gachechiladze M, Noble BF, Bitter B. 2009. Following-up in strategic environmental assessment: a case study of 20-year forest management planning in Saskatchewan, Canada. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 27(1): 45-56.

Noble BF. 2009. From projects to priorities: toward a more strategic environmental assessment process. Guest Statement, in P. Dearden and B. Mitchell Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, 3rd Edition. Oxford University Press. 

Harriman J, Noble, BF. 2008. New urban planning means being ‘proactive’: learning points from the field of strategic environmental assessment. Plan Canada 48(4): 23-26.

Noble BF. 2008. Strategic approaches to regional cumulative effects assessment: a case study of the Great Sand Hills, Canada. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 26(2): 79-90.

Harriman J, Noble BF. 2008. Characterizing regional approaches to project and cumulative effects assessment in Canada. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 10(1): 1-26.

Kulshreshtha SN, Noble BF. 2007. Irrigation Development. In M. Lewry (ed.) Geography of Saskatchewan. Regina: Canada Plains Research Centre 

Noble BF, Kulshreshtha SN. 2007. Community Pastures. In M. Lewry (ed.) Geography of Saskatchewan. Regina: Canada Plains Research Centre 

Noble BF, Christmas L. 2007. Strategic environmental assessment of greenhouse gas mitigation options in the Canadian agricultural sector. Environmental Management 41(1): 64-78.

Kulshreshtha SN, Noble BF. 2007. Economic Geography of Agriculture in Saskatchewan. In M. Lewry (ed.) Geography of Saskatchewan. Regina, CPRC 

Bronson JE, Noble BF. 2006. Health determinants in Canadian northern environmental impact assessment. Polar Record 42(223): 315-324.

Noble BF. 2006. Multi-criteria decision support for energy supply assessment. In. G. Hearth (ed.), Multi-criteria Analysis. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate 

Noble BF, Bronson JE. 2006. Practitioner survey of the state of health integration in environmental assessment: the case of northern Canada. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 26:410-424.

Storey K, Noble BF. 2005. Socioeconomic effects monitoring: towards improvements informed by biophysical effects monitoring. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, (Invited, special issue) 23(3): 210-214.

Noble BF, Storey K. 2005. Toward increasing the utility of follow-up in Canadian EIA. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 25(2): 163-180.

Bronson JE, Noble BF. 2005. Measuring the effectiveness of Parks Canada’s environmental management system: a case study of Riding Mountain National Park. The Canadian Geographer 50(1): 101-113.

Noble BF. 2005. Strategic Impact Assessment. In K. Hanna (ed.), Environmental Impact Assessment – Practice and Participation. Toronto: Oxford University Press 

Noble BF, Bronson JE. 2005. Integrating human health in environmental impact assessment: case studies of Canada’s northern mining resource sector. Arctic 58(4): 395-405.

Noble BF. 2004. Integrating strategic environmental assessment with industry planning: A case study of the Pasquai-Porcupine forest management plan, Saskatchewan, Canada. Environmental Management 33(3): 401-411.

Noble BF. 2004. Applying Adaptive Environmental Management. In B. Mitchell (ed.), Resource and Environmental Management in Canada: Addressing Conflict and Uncertainty 3rd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press 

Noble BF. 2004. A multi-criteria analysis of Canadian electricity futures. The Canadian Geographer 48(1): 11-28.

Noble BF. 2004. State-of-practice survey of SEA in Canadian provinces. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 24(3): 351-361.

Noble BF. 2004. Strategic environmental assessment quality assurance: Evaluating and improving the consistency of judgments in assessment panels. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 24(1): 3-25. Reprinted in 2004 by Elsevier Science in Virtual Journal of Environmental Sustainability 2(2).

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