impact assessment Articles
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Project: List of Academic IA Courses Worldwide
Project ID: 23 Summary of Project: IAIA wants to develop a mailing list of professors who teach academic courses on impact assessment.You will use your amazing internet-sleuthing skills to help us develop this list! Project Supervisor: Aaron Goldschmidt Application closing date: October 12, ...
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Project - Annotated Links
Proejct ID: 21 Summary of project: We are looking to develop an annotated links page of relevant impact assessment (1) mandates and regulations, (2) guidance documents (including internal agency protocols), (3) legal rulings, and (4) literature to assist practitioners with fulfilling legal, professional, and ethical obligations. Project Supervisor: Jennifer ...
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Project - Member Survey Analysis
Proejct ID: 22 Summary of project: Help IAIA to analyze the results of the member survey that will be conducted in September, and communicate the results to the Board of Directors and IAIA Headquarters Project Supervisor: Marla ...
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Project - Repository of Completed IA Projects Feasibility Study
Proejct ID: 20 Summary of project: We will study and report on the feasibility of developing a searchable repository of completed public impact assessments. Project Supervisor: Martin ...
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Why don’t we have 20,000 members?
IAIA currently has around 1600 members from 120 countries. We have a further 18 Affiliates in 16 countries, which puts our total membership at just over 5000 IA professionals. Our membership is neither static nor constant; it changes year by year depending on where our annual conference is held, with large numbers of new members joining each year and then dropping off in subsequent years. IAIA is ...
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The Environmental Impact Assessment EIA
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the set of studies carried out by a multidisciplinary team, with detailed technical data, which evaluates the consequences of a given project for the environment. In the EIA, the impacts that a given project can cause in the environment, as well as the presentation of mitigating measures, are identified and evaluated technically and impartially. In ...
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5 ways to bridge the gap between best community engagement practice and actual project experiences
Community engagement and impact assessment go hand-in-hand. Our core principles prize informed consultation and human rights. Many IAIA members also subscribe to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2), striving to deliver the golden experience promised at the far side of the engagement spectrum. But any of us who’ve spent time in the field know that the ideal ...
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Papers sought for special journal issue on SEA in the private sector
Papers are sought for a special issue of the journal Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (IAPA) on investigating the use of Strategic Environmental Assessment in the private sector. Submissions are due by 30 October 2017. For more than a decade, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has been an integral part of legislation in the European Union and many countries around the world, ...
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EEB and WWF on Business Impact Assessment and the work by KPMG for UNICE and CEFIC
It is 6 years now since the debate on a new European chemicals policy began. For nearly as long UNICE and CEFIC have been complaining about possible business impacts. After several dozen impact assessments and 9 months of debate in a European Commission Working Group on “Further Impact Assessments” EEB and WWF believe it is time to explain our position so as to avoid any misrepresentation or ...
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Social impact assessment: a case study of a sewerage project in Barbados
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons of social impacts of projects in developing countries despite of thorough impact assessment in appraisal phase of projects. A case study approach on a sewerage project in Barbados was undertaken using primary and secondary information. The study reveals that although the impact assessment report suggested appropriate mitigation measures, but ...
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Strategic choice analysis by expert panels for migration impact assessment
International migration is a source of policy and research interest in many countries. This paper provides a review of experiences and findings from migration impact assessment worldwide. Various findings are briefly summarised in the context of a systematic migration SWOT analysis for five distinct domains of interest in the economy. The results from each SWOT analysis are then used as an input ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment Review - Check List
Untitled Document Objectives of the Review Checklist This Review Checklist has been developed as a method for reviewing environmental information submitted by developers, to the competent authorities, as part of an EIA procedure. Its purpose is to assist reviewers in evaluating the completeness and suitability of this information from a technical and decision making viewpoint. In ...
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Socioeconomic Impact Assessment in Saudi Arabia: problems and perspectives
The Socioeconomic Impact Assessment (SIA) specialists face a host of challenges in interpreting the importance of social and economic impacts. Evidence is abundant in the literature about the serious implications resulting from incomplete or prejudiced SIA analyses during execution of the projects and beyond. This paper conceptualises the significance of social and economic impacts, and discusses ...
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Connecting People`s Wellbeing and Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
Setting the scene Human wellbeing and survival depend on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals recognize that efforts to eliminate poverty and inequality must go hand in hand with strategies to tackle climate change, ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, food and water insecurity, and spread of disease. Fundamental human rights may depend on access ...
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Regulatory impact assessment and its evolution in Greece and Cyprus
During the recent years an increasing demand emerged to improve the existing law systems through procedures that support the standards of better regulation. Such processes are the regulatory impact assessment (RIA) systems through which researchers, administrators and decision/policy makers can assess the economic, social and environmental impacts of any given legislation. Every country ...
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Comparison between the Chinese EIA Guidelines for Air Dispersion Modelling and the Advanced Air Dispersion Model ADMS
According to the Environmental Protection Law of P.R. China, and the Environmental Protection Management Method on Construction Projects the Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (HJ/T .1~2.3-93) have defined how environmental impact assessment should be carried out for construction projects, in terms of the general principle, methodology, contents and requirements. ...
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Sustainability impact assessments: a new comprehensive framework for raising the bar beyond existing environmental assessments
Much systematic research and attention is being directed towards sustainability indicators, but comparatively little towards analytical tools for comprehensive sustainability impact assessments that can guide economic activities, programmes and specific projects towards decisions and sustainable actions, which will ultimately be reflected in the indicators. Existing tools of analysis, such as ...
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An evaluation of the environmental impact assessment system in Turkey
In Turkey, as a developing country, environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a critical key for environmental protection. EIA is not regulated in Turkey by means of law, but through a decree put into force on the basis of the relevant provision of the Environmental Law. The EIA Regulation that is currently in effect was rearranged to eliminate operational problems and ensure harmony with European ...
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Environmental impact assessment of bathroom products
It has been recognised worldwide that previous patterns of industrial production have been causing resource depletion and waste accumulation. To address the issue, not only the selection of materials, but also the cycle of stages in the life of a product, are subject to scrutiny. These stages may include resource extraction, manufacturing, packaging and shipping, use and refurbishment. This paper ...
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Road network unreliability: impact assessment and mitigation
Road transport network reliability has recently become important, with the increasing emphasis on 'just-in-time' production methods and reducing the impacts of natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis). This has led to increased efforts to mitigate the impacts of disruption of road transport networks, and the inclusion of changes in network reliability in economic appraisals of road network ...
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