Sustainability assessment is a recent framing of impact assessment that places emphasis on
delivering positive net sustainability gains now and into the future. It can be directed to any …

Impact assessment has been in place for over 40years and is now practised in some form in
all but two of the world's nations. In this paper we reflect on the state of the art of impact …

Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making
will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer s book on SEA; and students, teachers and …

Sustainable Development is the core goal of the expanding field of Sustainability
Assessment (SA). However, we find that three key areas of debate in relation to SA practice …

The concept of effectiveness has become a relevant topic in environmental impact
assessment (EIA) or impact assessment (IA) research in response to the need to improve the …

We suggest that the impact assessment community has lost its way based on our
observation that impact assessment is under attack because of a perceived lack of …

This paper examines the strategic environmental assessment (SEA)–sustainability
relationship over the past decade, from 2000 to 2010, focusing in particular on the …

Abstract Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process where several stakeholders
take part, each with different interests, making bias unavoidable and a major cause of …

Results from an international online survey on simplification efforts in environmental
assessment (EA) and other types of impact assessments (IAs) are presented. The survey …

Internationally, high head diversion small hydropower is being developed in mountainous
regions. In contrast to the history of large reservoir hydropower's well-documented social …