I was born in the coastal mining town of Baie Verte, north central Newfoundland, Canada. I completed my Ph.D. in Geography, specializing in environmental assessment, at Memorial University of Newfoundland. I joined the University of Saskatchewan in 2002. I am currently Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning, and Vice Dean Research, Scholarly and Artistic Work in the College of Arts & Science. 

My research is in the field of environmental assessment, addressing issues and applications ranging from cumulative effects assessment and land use to resource policy and planning for mineral and energy development projects. I am co-director of the Community Appropriate Sustainable Energy Security (CASES) partnership, funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant and project partners. CASES is an international research and knowledge mobilization initiative involving 15 northern and Indigenous communities and public and private sector project partners from Canada, Alaska, Sweden, and Norway. The overarching goal of this work is to co-create and broker the knowledge, understanding, and capacity to design, implement and manage renewable energy systems that support and enhance social and economic values in northern and Indigenous communities (https://renewableenergy.usask.ca/Projects/CASES.php).

I am also actively engaged in the professional practice of environmental assessment. I have been a consultant or advisor to several First Nations in relation to cumulative effects assessment and regulatory proceedings. I have also been a consultant to industry and various provincial, territorial, national and international agencies including Environment and Climate Change Canada, Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board, Government of the Northwest Territories, Nalcor Energy, Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, National Energy Board, Office of Auditor General of Canada Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. In 2018-19 I was appointed to the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Integrated Natural Resource Management.

I currently serve as Editor-in-Chief for Environmental Management and on the editorial boards of Environmental Impact Assessment Review and Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal.

See: https://sites.google.com/view/bram-noble/publications

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BOOKS

Noble BF. 2021. Environmental Impact Assessment: Guide to Principles and Practice, 4th edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 306 pgs.

Noble BF. 2015. Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: Guide to Principles and Practice, 3rd edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 343 pgs.

Hackett P, Noble, BF, Gunn J 2013. Human Geography: Lab Manual, 2^nd edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press

Noble BF. 2010. Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: Guide to Principles and Practice, 2nd edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 274pgs

Noble BF. 2006. Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: Guide to Principles and Practice. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 216 pages.

CHAPTERS

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

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

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 Impact Assessment Act. Irwin.

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

Noble BF. 2021. Environmental impact assessment. In Desire-Tesar C, Lackenbauer P (Eds.) Lines in the Snow: Thoughts on the Past and Future of Northern Canadian Policy Issues. Ottawa: CARC.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

^*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].

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.

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.

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.

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

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, 4^th Edition. Oxford University Press.

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

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.

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

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, 3^rd Edition. Oxford University Press.

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

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

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

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

JOURNAL PAPERS

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

Jackson S, Poelzer GA, Poelzer GM, Noble BF. 2022. Mining and sustainability in the Circumpolar North: Role of government in advancing corporate social responsibility. Environ Manage, 17: 37-52.

^*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

^*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  

^*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

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

^*Arnold L, Hanna K, Noble BF, et al. 2022. Capacity needs for assessing cumulative social effects of projects. Impact Assess Proj Apprais, 41(1): 35-47 https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2022.2112812

^*Arnold L, Hanna K, Noble BF, Gergel S, Nikolakis W. 2022.  Assessing the cumulative social effects of projects: Lessons from Canadian hydroelectric development. Environ Manage, 69: 1035-1048.

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 Res Soc Sci, 91: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102712

^*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 Res Soc Sci, 83: 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 Assess Proj Apprais, 41(1): 59-70. 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, 15(13) 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. Environ Impact Assess Rev, 92: 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 Assess Proj Apprais, 40(6): https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2022.2099728

^*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 Res Soc Sci., 92: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102797

^*Dutta N, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Hanna K. 2021. From project impacts to strategic decisions: recurring issues and concerns in wind energy environmental assessment. Environ Manage, 68: 591-603.

^*Hu B, Gong Y, Chung CY, Noble B, Poelzer G. 2021 Price-maker bidding and offering strategies for networked microgrids in day-ahead electricity markets. IEE Transactions on Smart Grid doi: 10.1109/TSG.2021.3109111.

^*McMaster R, Noble BF, Poelzer G, Hanna K. 2021. Wind energy environmental assessment requirements and processes: an uneven landscape. Impact Assess Proj Apprais, 39(1): https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2020.1815271

^*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: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105540    

^*Nwanekezie K, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2021. Transitions-based strategic environmental assessment. Environ Impact Assess Rev, 91: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106643

^*Peltz N, Hanna K, Noble B. 2020. Role of Inuit Qaujimaningit in Nunavut's impact assessment process. Impact Assess Proj Apprais, 38(5): https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2020.1786763.

^*Thiessen B, Noble BF, Hanna K. 2021. Enabling conditions and challenges to environmental assessment as a tool for knowledge brokerage: Lessons from Nunavut. Polar Geography 45(2): https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2022.2032859.

^*Thiessen B, Noble B, Hanna K. 2020. Analysis of impact assessment practice and mitigation for shipping activity in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Arctic 73(2): 221-239.

^*Crowley C, Blakley J, Jaeger J, Noble BF, Westman C. 2020. Sources of uncertainties in environmental assessment: lessons about uncertainty disclosure and communication from an oil sands extraction project in Northern Albert. J Environ Plan Manage 63(2): 317-334.

Bradford L, Thapa A. …Noble BF, Lindemschmidt KE. 2020. Incorporating social dimensions in hydrological and water-quality modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of agricultural beneficial management practices in a Prairie river basin. Environ Sci Pollution Res 27: 14271-87.

Hanna K, McGuigan E, Noble BF, Parkins J. 2019. An analysis of the state of impact assessment research for alternative power production. Energy Res Soc Sci. 50: 116-128.

Noble BF. 2019. Transforming IA from the outside in: capacity and levers for strategic assessment. Impact Assess Proj Apprais 38(2): 122-125.

Noble BF, Gibson R, White L, Blakley J, ¹Nwanekezie K, Croal P. 2019. Effectiveness of strategic environmental assessment in Canada under directive-based and informal practice. Impact Assess Proj Apprais 37(3-4): 344-355.

^*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 Environ Assess  Manage 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. Environ Manage 64(5): 608-25.

^*Arnold L, Hanna K, Noble BF. 2019. Freshwater cumulative effects and environmental assessment in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories: challenges and decision-maker needs. Impact Assess Proj Apprais 37(6): 516-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2019.1596596

^*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

^*Luke L, Noble BF. 2019. Consideration of climate change in environmental assessment: Analysis of the liquefied natural gas sector, British Columbia. Impact Assess Proj Apprais 37(5): 371-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2018.1533515

^*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

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.

^*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

^*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.

^*Ridsdale R, ¹Noble 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.

^*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

^*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

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, 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.

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

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.

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

^*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.

^*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.

^*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.

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.

^*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.

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.

^*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, 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.

^*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 10^th anniversary issue on Sustainable Places).

^*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.

^*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.

^*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.

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

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

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, ^*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. 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).

Noble BF, ^*Macharia S. 2004. Towards a working framework for best-practice EIA follow-up: lessons from Canadian case studies. Prairie Perspectives 7: 209-226

Noble BF. 2003. Auditing strategic environmental assessment practice in Canada. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 5(2): 127-147.

Noble BF. 2003. Strategic environmental assessment quality assurance: Evaluating and improving the consistency of judgments in assessment panels. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 24(1): 3-25.

Noble BF. 2002. Strategic environmental assessment of Canadian energy policy. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 20(3): 177-188.

Noble BF. 2002. The Canadian experience with SEA and sustainability. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 22(1): 3-17.

Noble BF, Storey K. 2001. Towards a structured approach to strategic environmental assessment. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 3(4): 483-508.

Noble BF. 2000. Strategic environmental assessment: What is it and what makes it strategic? Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 2(2): 203-24.

Noble BF. 2000. Strengthening EIA through adaptive management: a systems perspective. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 20(1): 99-113.

Noble BF. 1999. Institutional criteria for co-management. Marine Policy 24(1): 67-77.

Northern and Indigenous communities cumulative effects assessment energy policy energy resources environmental impact assessment environmental planning and manaegment environmental policy renewable energy strategic environmental assessment sustainable mining