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More Effective Impact Assessment: Tools for Stronger Argument and Clearer Writing
This course will help you reason more clearly and write more effective impact assessments. Better arguments make key decisions more transparent and help reduce risks to projects. Environmental impact assessment - like all technical writing - constantly uses reasoning to reach conclusions. That process is called `argument`, which means to assemble a series of reasons, leading to conclusions, for a specific audience. This course shares two sets of tools. The first provides principles for creating clearer arguments that apply to phases of the IA process. The second shows how to better present arguments in the written text of your documents.
Presented by: Glenn Brown (Canada)
Course tuition: US$480 for IAIA Members / $580 for Non-IAIA Members (No bursaries available for Online Training Courses.)
Please register early! The course will be cancelled if the minimum number has not been reached one week before the course start date. If the training course is cancelled at that time due to low enrollment, IAIA will notify you and provide refund information.
Payment & refund policies: Registration is not confirmed until payment has been received and a receipt has been issued. Pre-registration and pre-payment by individual course deadline is required. IAIA will refund registration fees upon written request received before the specific course deadline; a US$125 processing fee will be retained. After the course deadline date, no refunds will be issued for cancelations or no-shows. Substitutions for paid registrants may be made in writing without financial penalty.
Course level: Intermediate
Language of delivery: English
Prerequisites: Some experience with IA
Homework between sessions: None
Dr. Glenn Brown has over 30 years of experience as an ecologist and educator specializing in environmental management. He has worked on projects for industry, government and non-governmental organizations in Canada and other countries. He taught courses on Ecosystem Science and Management and Analytical Thinking and Communications for 16 years in the Environment and Management Program at Royal Roads University.
