This paper discusses trends in recent academic literature on cumulative effects assessment (CEA) in the field of environmental impact assessment (IA). We performed an inductive, thematic analysis of peer-reviewed literature published between 2008 and 2018. We find that most academic research on CEA originates in North America, and much of it is situated in periodicals other than the leading IA journals. There is agreement that CEA is still not well understood conceptually and there remains a need for procedural guidance as support for practitioners. Support for regional and strategic approaches to CEA remains strong. Our review of the literature also shows that, increasingly, researchers advocate estimating relative ecosystem vulnerability to anthropogenic activities by aggregating stressors and differentiating the most heavily disturbed valued components and impact zones. The paper concludes with our suggestions to strengthen CEA scholarship globally.

本文讨论了最近关于环境影响评估 (IA) 领域累积影响评估 (CEA) 的学术文献的趋势。我们对 2008 年至 2018 年间发表的同行评审文献进行了归纳、主题分析。我们发现大多数关于 CEA 的学术研究来自北美，其中大部分位于领先 IA 期刊以外的期刊上。人们一致认为 CEA 在概念上仍然没有得到很好的理解，仍然需要程序指导作为对从业者的支持。对 CEA 的区域和战略方法的支持仍然很强大。我们对文献的回顾还表明，越来越多地，研究人员主张通过汇总压力因素并区分受干扰最严重的有价值的组成部分和影响区域来估计生态系统对人为活动的相对脆弱性。本文最后提出了我们在全球加强 CEA 奖学金的建议。